Subject: Jim Amormino

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises

  Speed Eating: Would you eat 42 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches in 10 minutes for $1,500? Patrick “P-Rock” Beroletti, a twentysomething-year-old Chicago cook, won the Drum Corps International World Peanut Butter and Jelly Eating Championship this week at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. (Earlier this year, Beroletti devoured 47 donuts in five minutes.) Tim “Eater X” Janus dunked his treats in a milk-water mixture and nabbed second place with 37.5 sandwiches. Rich “The Locust” LeF

  August 9, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Ass Slapping Fun!

  Worm Attack in Dana Point? TMZ reports that Orange County police are investigating former Los Angeles Laker/Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman for allegedly committing a “crime” inside the Hennessy's Tavern near PCH in Dana Point. The celebrity website says Rodman was accused of slapping a female customer's ass so hard it left a “major mark.” No word on what part of his anatomy did the slapping. Jim Amormino, sheriff's spokesman, said dicks in his department's “sex crimes unit” are on

  September 24, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Times Finds OC!

  Rodman Fouled? Did an unidentified woman who claims Dennis Rodman assaulted her on Sept. 16 punch the ex-NBA star in his chest, demand to see his genitals and give Rodman her telephone number before complaining to police? Yes, according to Darren Prince, Rodman’s manager. He tells Brianna Bailey at the Daily Pilot, “Why would she give him her phone number if he sexually assaulted her? Dennis is really upset.” The woman told sheriff’s deputies that Rodman slapped her ass at Hennessey’s

  September 27, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: More Street dirt

  More Street dirt: In his pre-treasurer-tax collector days, Chriss Street allegedly billed (and double-billed!) a bankrupt trust "for thousands of dollars in expenses, including a $3,584 laptop computer and $1,200 in office supplies," reports Ronald Campbell at the Register. The records collected by The End of the Road Trust show that Street charged thousands more for trips, gourmet meals and a personal trainer. The trust is suing Street for $7 million. Eagle eye Amormino: Orange County sheriff'

  November 13, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Criminal Miscalculations

  California's New Math: The LA Times reports today that state prison officials miscalculated the sentences for not 25 or 50 or 100 but for 33,000 current inmates. According to judges, officials have been applying the "wrong formula." Writes reporter Michael Rothfeld, "The sentencing errors range from a few days to several years." California's chief deputy secretary for adult prison operations gave Rothfeld the money quote: "We believe it's a problem." Recognition is the first step, I guess. But

  December 13, 2007

• The Acting-Loving Jack Anderson

  The county is still abuzz about the failed jewelry heist at the Shops at Mission Viejo that left an idiot in a bad wig dead and the Orange County Sheriff Department investigating its own since two deputies shot the guy. Given that Kirk Christian Knight (just one letter removed from KKK!) fired at the deputies, this latest death under OCSD watch is much more justified than, say, the John Chamberlain affair. But what's been the strangest development so far is the visibility of acting sheriff Jack

  March 11, 2008

• Deaths of OC MMA Fighter, Wife, Suspected to be Murder-Suicide

  The LA Times, industry publications the Wrestling Observer and Sherdog and plenty of other sources report that autopsy results are leading authorities to believe that the deaths of an Orange County professional mixed martial arts fighter and his wife were exactly what they appeared to be when news broke yesterday: a murder-suicide.Justin Levens, 28, and his wife, Sarah McLean-Levens, 25, were found dead from gunshot wounds Wednesday afternoon at their Laguna Niguel condominium. The gun was foun

  December 18, 2008

• Is a Popular Legal Weapon Ending a South County Gang Rivalry, or Catching Bystanders in Its Net?

  January 29, 2009

• Blind Spot

  For OC jail inmate John Chamberlain, jailhouse justice served as judge, juryand executioner

  March 29, 2007

• Shoot First, Ask No Questions Later

  September 7, 2006

• 'Like a Machete Cutting Through Traffic'

  February 23, 2006

• How to Ruin a Woman

  November 11, 2004

• To Protect and Swerve

  April 8, 2004

• 'Our Little Secret'

  December 4, 2003

• Reefer Badness

  November 20, 2003

• On the Outside Looking In

  September 18, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 17, 2003

• Pop Your Go Pills, Then Read

  January 30, 2003

• Autopsy Report: Angels Pitcher Adenhart's Driver Was DUI

  June 18, 2009

• Crime Time: Nekkid Folks, Robber Baby, Strip-Club Stabbers, Loaded Brownie and a Flaming Bag of Poo

  Courtesy of Orange Police Department and Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentWe call this collage "Robberies, Solved and Unsolved." Top left: a man hands a teller a note demanding cash at Chase Bank in Orange. Top right: Booking photo of Adam J. Bennett, 20, of Santa Ana, who is suspected of robbing $700 from a Mission Viejo Wells Fargo on July 27. Bottom left and right: Surveillance photos from armed robbery that occurred around 9:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at the Orange Olive Mini Market in Orange. ​It'

  August 18, 2009

• Alleged Hate Crime Sparks Reg Reader Racist Fusterkluck!

  On July 4, two young white male suspects, one described as a skinhead with a swastika tattoo, allegedly attacked a Latina custodian in Ladera Ranch. In a press conference held with Sheriff's Dept. officials, the victim, 45-year-old Maria Guadarrama, said the men stole her wallet, which contained $797 from a just-cashed check, tried to rip open her shirt, attempted to stab her with a Swiss army knife, and told her to "Go back to Mexico." Although Guadarrama provided a detailed description of the

  July 10, 2009