Subject: Drug Crimes

• From the He's-Obviously- Not-a-Friend-of- Cheney File

  Courtesy of the state Dept. of Toxic Substances Control... Orange County Polluter Sentenced to 16 Months in State Prison Westminster - The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) announced today that an Orange County Superior Court sentenced Steven Craig Booth, of Anaheim, to 16 months in state prison for criminal violations relating to his operation of a metalizing business in Stanton. Booth pled guilty to eight felony and six misdemeanor charges, including hazardous waste, d

  December 20, 2005

• Disneyland Tourist Crime Alert

  Don't be the amusement for a crook: As a public service to Disneyland's out-of-town visitors, we've compiled a summary of serious crimes committed in the city housing the "Happiest Place on Earth" for the period of July 3 to 9. Here are the reported crimes for the week: Stolen vehicles ..................................................... 27 Grand thefts ......................................................... 20 Drunk-driving arrests .......................................... 39 Identity t

  July 13, 2007

• Lil Wayne in Big Trouble

  Police near Yuma, Arizona have arrested Southern rap star Lil Wayne for possession of “dangerous” drugs, narcotics and drug paraphernalia, TMZ is reporting. This incident follows a 2007 arrest in Idaho, also for drug possession. If Wayne (real name Dwayne Carter Jr.) had kept in the responsible company of Zac Efron, this mess probably would've never happened. In other news, somebody has absconded with Lil Wayne's chin.

  January 23, 2008

• Doozy of the Day at The Sheriff Mike Carona Corruption Trial

  "I'm the sheriff. I can do whatever I want." --Prior to his arrest on federal bribery charges, Mike Carona confided his view of the world to a law enforcement colleague concerned about the Orange County sheriff's close friendship with Ed Grech, a local businessman whom the FBI had secretly recorded calling a major suspect in a narcotics trafficking investigation. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)

  November 7, 2008

• Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

  I thought people in Maryland gorged themselves on crab cakes? From the Old Line State: Two occupants of a vehicle parked at the Taco Bell in Solomons on Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. were found to be in possession of suspected marijuana.  DFC James Smith subsequently arrested Derek Craig Bradley, 20, and Brandon Angelo Meredith, 19 both of Lusby, and charged each with possession of marijuana and possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia (a spoon and a small metallic homemade burner, used to

  February 18, 2009

• The Real Drug Bust of "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County"

  The Peruvian boyfriend of Alex Murrel, a cast member from season 2 of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, was arrested in her rented Laguna Beach house on suspicion of felony possession of cocaine with intent to sell.Murrel, 22, was questioned as a witness last week but is not expected to face charges, according to an E! Online report. It goes on to state: - Laguna Beach Police officers, at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, raided Murrel's residence because her boyfrien

  March 25, 2009

• Lords of Acid

  July 7, 2005

• The Marginalized of the Margins

  February 7, 2002

• The Crack-UP

  November 12, 1998

• Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

  I thought people went to Taco Bell after toking the doob, not in search of it. The following story shows how much I know. From southwest Florida:The manager of a Cape Coral Taco Bell has been arrested after allegedly selling marijuana to undercover deputies on four separate occasions, three in the very parking lot of the restaurant he managed.Paul Price, 27, of 812 SW 6th Avenue, Cape Coral (Gustavo note: is southwest Florida still so backwards that the newspapers feel comfortable in printing so

  April 26, 2009

• Crime Time: Toys 'R Us Jerk-Off, Fake Cops, Gangbangers, Breakdancers and Son of a Real Housewife of OC

  7-Eleven surveillance screen grab courtesy Anaheim Police Department. All others courtesy of Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentClockwise from top left: Justin Buseth is accused of breaking into a home and doughnut shop in Dana Point; Daniel Chomina has a long record and faces several felony charges; Surveillance video shows 7-Eleven robbery spree perpetrators; Josh Waring, the son of a Real Housewife of Orange County, in trouble again.It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--in O

  July 21, 2009

• Lil Wayne

  August 13, 2009

• OC Reality TV Produces (At Least) 6 Who've Drawn Police Calls [UPDATED]

  Too much reality for Orange County law enforcement (clockwise from top left): Ryan Alexander Jenkins, Josh Waring, Renzo Gamboa, Dennis Rodman, Jason Wahler and Matt Keough.​ UPDATED TO REFLECT MURDER CHARGE, CRIMINAL BATTERY COMPLAINT AGAINST JENKINS. If anyone in Orange County with a Hispanic surname, baggy jeans and a tattoo can be branded "gang affiliated" and therefore subjected to a life as a suspect in any goddamn local crime, then why the hell can't scofflaws tied to reality TV

  August 20, 2009

• Disneyland Tourist Crime Alert

  Yes, the famous theme park calls itself the "Happiest Place on Earth" and countless kids and adults love the place with good reason, but there's a dark side to the Disneyland area. As a public service for park visitors please remember that the streets around Disneyland are crime magnets. If you don't believe it, consider a summary of only reported Anaheim crime for the week leading up to July 3: Stolen vehicles ..................................................... 26 Prostitution ..........

  July 7, 2007

• Lawyer for Jailed Brotherhood Figure Demands Dismissal of Case

  Brenice Lee Smith: Welcome Home, Now go to Jail.​Wow, that was fast.Yesterday I blogged that a judge denied a request by Gerardo Gutierrez, the lawyer for Brenice Lee Smith, the onetime member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love who has spent the past three decades living in a Nepalese monastery, to reduce his client's bail from $1.1 million to $50,000. Smith has now been behind bars for a month, apparently awaiting trial on 40-year-old charges that he conspired to smuggle a bunch of hashish fr

  October 29, 2009