Perhaps in an effort to decrease inmate overcrowding, a Santa Ana police cruiser accelerated in a restaurant parking lot and ran over a fleeing suspect across the street from OC Weekly's world headquarters late Tuesday night.
Police officials tell reporters that they are conducting an investigation into themselves, specifically to determine why one of their own would run over a 19-year-old Latino criminal suspect in a busy Santa Ana Norm's restaurant parking lot.
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Disney plans Extreme Makeover: California Adventure sucks, so Disney will be pouring $1.1 billion into the park to make it more like Disneyland. That's more than it took to build the park six years ago. The Times couldn't find any of the Mouse's people to go on the record, but notes that Chief Executive Bob Iger will be holding a news conference today to provide details. Other coverage: Register, LA Observed.
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Police were investigating a Taco Bell robbery that happened Wednesday night and quickly realized that they were dealing with a crime spree.
Investigators said three to four armed men robbed a Taco Bell on Narcoosee Road and then attacked two workers before they ran off.
When officers arrived they learned the Burger King next door had also been robbed by the same group.
"He looks up in the sky and says, 'From here on out we've got to be real careful and be concerned about [FBI] surveillance.'"
--Ex-Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl testifying today about Mike Carona's 2002 private reaction to speculation in the Orange County Sheriff's Department that federal agents had begun a corruption investigation into their activities. Carona now says he's innocent of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Haidl.
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"I'm sure it's memorable."
--Sassy defense lawyer Jeffrey Rawitz on a Newport Beach cop's recollections today about Orange County Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo wearing a "Hawaiian shirt" over his uniform while trying to block a 2002 police investigation into the videotaped gang rape of an unconscious minor during a high school party at the home of Don Haidl, another of Mike Carona's assistant sheriff's. Carona, who is close to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is on trial for a s
"He worked hard for you. He was a tireless worker. He worked all the time. He did great things. He helped at-risk kids and he did so much for the vulnerable people in our community."
--Exasperated, red-faced lawyer Jeffrey Rawitz (pictured) wrapping up an eight hour closing argument today in his defense of Mike Carona, who faces a series of public corruption charges including bribery and witness tampering after an extensive IRS and FBI investigation into the indicted ex-Orange County sheri
All the key swindlers in the homeless patient dumping scheme that sucked hundreds of thousands of dollars from Medicare and Medi-Cal programs in fradulent claims last year have been indicted -- except, that is, for the bad boys in Tustin who were also allegedly involved in the scheme. Last August a several months-long federal investigation culminated with the raids of three hospitals and the arrest of a hospital CEO in
Los Angeles for alleged involvement a scheme that recruited homeless "patient
