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Santa Ana Gangster Isn't Happy With 10-Year Gang Enhancement For Attempted Murder

Martin Perez joined the Lyon Street criminal street gang at the age of 14 and enjoyed four relatively fun years in freedom using the moniker "Chino."Perez recruited people for the gang, tagged his Orange County neighborhood, used gang symbolism as his cell phone wall paper, kept gang photographs on ... More >>

Orange County Wife Beater Upset Federal Officials Deported Him To South Korea

South Korean Paul Hyunpyo Lee pleaded guilty in 2004 to committing felonies and misdemeanors involving wife beating, child abuse, criminal threats and drug possession in exchange for a sweetheart deal inside Orange County Superior Court.Judge M. Marc Kelly could have sentenced Lee to four years and ... More >>

Gregory Cantrell, Newport Beach Businessman, Loses Child Molestation Appeal

In December 2003, Orange County businessman Gregory Erik Cantrell repeatedly molested a 12-year-old female relative, but the crimes went undiscovered for four years.Cantrell was charged and convicted of domestic violence in 2006--winning two days in jail and probation.The following year prosecutors ... More >>

Anaheim's "Chump Change" Del Taco Bandit: Yes, I Stabbed The Manager Eight Times But I Wasn't Trying To Kill Her

Jose Joaquin Guzman rode his bicycle to a Del Taco in Anaheim like he'd done many times before to eat but one night he wanted money.Guzman walked in the fast food restaurant's rear entrance and saw no customers. Edith, the manager, was wiping tables clean. She recognized him, said hello and continue ... More >>

South Side Krooks, Anaheim Gang, Lose Thug To Prison After Stupid Shooting

You can't help but note Andrew Aguilar's audacity.At the age of 18 in August 2008, the Anaheim gangster and a fellow hoodlum decided to terrorize their neighborhood.The two members of the turf-happy South Side Krooks (SSK) criminal street gang approached two other men who'd just finished cleaning up ... More >>

Knott's Berry Farm Child Molester Isn't Happy WIth His Felony Sex Convictions

A 15-year-old Orange County girl enjoyed the crowded wave pool at Knott's Berry Farm's Soak City Water Park in Buena Park one afternoon in 2009 until she felt someone's raging erection thumping up against her butt.According to court records, the shocked girl turned around and saw a heavyset man more ... More >>

Huntington Beach Motel Killer: It Wasn't Murder! It Was Post Sex Passion!

After getting drunk and beating his common law wife of 18 years in Sept. 2008, Fidelio Salazar Marin fled Orange County and the police for Washington state and took a job picking grapes and apples.The following month, Marin snuck back by bus and, using a fake identity because he isn't eligible for a ... More >>

Citizen of the Week! George Clebert Nails Just Wants to be Loved

You might not know it by looking at him, but George Clebert Nails lived in various Buena Park motels, drank beer to excess, smoked methamphetamine and liked to beat the hell out of his girlfriend, Rhonda. After the couple spent a glorious, highly intoxicated Fourth of July 2009 holiday, Rhonda did t ... More >>

Saigon TV Owners Accused of Cheating the Station's Founder Lose Jury Verdict Appeal

A California Court of Appeal has blasted the owners of Saigon TV for dishonesty in its legal attempts to overturn a $472,000 judgement against them for cheating the founder of the Vietnamese language station in Little Saigon. Following a 2010 jury trial in Orange County Superior Court, Larry Phan--t ... More >>

Victim Jose Garcia Says His So-Called Attempted Murderer Ramiro Alex Huerta Is Innocent

[Moxley Confidential] Appelllate courts uphold the convictions of the La Habra-based Monos gang member anyway

OC Man: 11-Year-Old Cousin Initiated Heated Sexual Affair

Convicted of horrible sex crimes, Filberto Morales Matus is presently serving a prison sentence in Ironwood State Prison at Blythe, but he believes he's incarcerated because of a mistake.R. Clayton Seaman, Jr,, a lawyer representing Matus argues that veteran Superior Court Judge Carla M. Singer botc ... More >>

Rapist Anaheim Cop Again Blames Intoxication For Guilty Plea, Demands New Trial

Bradley Stewart Wagner, the veteran Anaheim police officer who targeted at least three illegal immigrants near Disneyland for violent sexual assaults while on duty, is nothing if not persistent.This week, Wagner--who managed to stall his criminal case for more than five years--sent his defense lawye ... More >>

Catherine Denise Cranford, Surf City Lesbian Jailer, Loses Appeal of City Harassment Suit

​The state appeals court in Santa Ana refused to overturn a lower court judgment against the lawsuit of a former Huntington Beach jailer who claimed she was discriminated against because she is lesbian and retaliated against because she complained about it. The Orange County Superior Court jury in ... More >>

Citizen of the Week! The Pedophile Uncle Who Thought Too Much

​Jose Raul Pineda claims that his massive prison sentence is unfair following an Orange County trial that found him guilty of 20 sex offenses against his nieces.Pineda admits that when alone with the elementary school girls he liked to touch them, but he disputes that anyone could know his touchin ... More >>

Anaheim Ducks Lose This One Not on the Ice But in Court

​Someone renting a Honda Center luxury suite from the Anaheim Ducks got years behind on payments--we're talking more than $100,000 behind--so the NHL franchise sued and won a judgment in Orange County court for the unpaid balance. Next, the Ducks sought to have the defendant pay its attorney fees, ... More >>

Luke Cheung: Newport Beach Doctor Must Pay For Fatal Error, Appellate Court Rules

Dr. Cheung​A California Court of Appeal has upheld a jury decision against a Newport Beach doctor whose botched interpretation of a computerized tomography (CT) scan led to the unnecessary death of an 85-year-old woman at Hoag Hospital in 2009.The 16-page ruling decision announced Jan. 4, the thre ... More >>

OC Judge Reversed For Cruel Treatment of Ex-Husband in Child Support Case

​By 2010, Southern California home building executive James E. Lockington lost 99 percent of his $14,500 monthly income, short sold his house to prevent foreclosure, loaded his credit cards with debt and moved into his sister's house to avoid becoming homeless, but Superior Court Judge Ronald P. K ... More >>

Jose Luis Ledezma, OC Pedophile, Unhappy With Punishment After Raping 6-Year-Old Girl

Ledezma: More than eyed a 6-year-old​Forget for a brief moment what he did to a little girl, Jose Luis Ledezma believes he's been terribly wronged by Orange County's criminal justice system.Yes, Ledezma freely admitted that in August 2008 he raped, sodomized and got forced oral copulation from a 6 ... More >>

OC Sheriff's Union Defeats County in Court Ruling Over Jail Cost Savings Plan

​A California Court of Appeal ruled late yesterday that Orange County officials had treated the local sheriff's deputy union unfairly and upheld a lower court's decision to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the county from instituting annual jail personnel cost savings of between $24 mi ... More >>

Imade A. Jati, Daddy Rapist: But I Was Careful Not To Get My Daughter Pregnant

​Imade A. Jati didn't know that the call from his daughter was being recorded or that the questions he was being asked had been written by Matt Ricci, a veteran Irvine police detective.So, when the high school senior asked her father if he'd promise never to have sex with her again, he replied, "A ... More >>

Burglar's Target: Granny's Panties

Barton: Soiled again​On Feb. 12, 2008, convicted rapist Steven William Barton sat in his pickup truck and couldn't restrain himself from going into a 66-year-old Huntington Beach woman's residence with the intent to commit a bizarre crime. Barton, who started a car-wash business after he left pris ... More >>

OC Porn Star Loses Appeal for a New Trial

Dancing with the porn star​The popular Irvine adult dance instructor who sued an Orange County woman for causing his dismissal by accusing him, a former gay pornography star, of trying to recruit her 15-year-old son into porn has lost his appeal for a new trial. A California Court of Appeal ... More >>

The Stinky Irvine Day Worker, His Meth, The Pickax & His Dead Boss

A bullet-grazed Avalos: The Meth made me do it​Irvine police officer John Sanders arrived at the active residential crime scene in January 2007 and took a defensive position behind a concrete wall. What Sanders saw is the stuff of a horror movie starring Jason Voorhees.Professional lands ... More >>

California Pervert Guilty For Cyber Sex "Touching" of Fake 13-year-old Girl

Stillittano: Webcam superstar​Can you imagine the shock on Jeffrey Andrew Stillittano's face when he learned that he'd jacked off three times in two days on his webcam for Jamie, a 13-year-old girl who was, in fact, a fictitious character being played by undercover vice squad cops at the Anaheim p ... More >>

The Mother, Her Teen Lover and Their Baby

[Moxley Confidential] Appeals court rejects decision to give custody of an infant to a 10th grader

Little Saigon Decapitation Case Gets Reversed

Phan wins argument​Judge James P. Marion didn't believe Kenny Minh Phan's excuse for running away from a 2008 fatal near-decapitation accident he'd caused in Little Saigon after ignoring a red traffic light.Phan claimed he'd fled the gruesome mess because he was in "shock" and feared his own broth ... More >>

Sex Crime Suspect Wins, Loses, Wins

Mosley​When he was 18 years old Steven Lloyd Mosley of Anaheim did something with a 12-year-old girl that may have involved kisses near a residential pool or forceful intercourse in a garage or both, according to court records.After the June 2003 incident, an Orange County jury refused to find ... More >>

OC Judge Once Again Rebuked For Anti-Immigrant Bigotry

Archie Bunker is alive, well and in drag in the OC courthouse!​Is Nancy Pollard the Archie Bunker of Orange County's court system?Twice this year, a California Court of Appeal has rebuked Pollard for making what appellate justices considered anti-immigrant statements during cases. In the most ... More >>

Jesus Contreras: Prison Nurses Want To Break Off My Penis

Shhhh. He's getting a message from a ghost.​Jesus Contreras is mad.

OC Vietnamese Gang-Related Slaying Conviction Rejected

Nguyen gets a judicial miracle​There may have been screams of joy in a California prison last night and cries of frustration inside the district attorney's office. Late yesterday afternoon, a California Court of Appeal overturned an Orange County jury's 2007 special circumstances murder convi ... More >>

Justices Reject Convictions Against Man Who Allegedly Shot At Cops

A dog of a case?​The Orange County District Attorney's Office twice has won convictions against Ernest Benefiel related to highly questionable allegations he assaulted police officers in a bizarre 2004 Fullerton incident, and now a state appeals court for the second time has rejected the prosecuti ... More >>

Court Slaps Little Saigon Red-Baiter

The decades-old Little Saigon sport of falsely labeling a fellow Vietnamese immigrant "a Communist" if that person doesn't share your right-wing politics now finally has consequences. Just ask Sinh Cuong Cao. In 2007, Kimoanh Nguyen-Lam (pictured) was fired as the nation's first Vietnamese American ... More >>

Citizen of the Week!

Robyn Renne Devereaux, a onetime Latham & Watkins paralegal, met Melissa Jo Rodriguez, a retired California Highway Patrol dispatcher, on ObesityHelp.com in 2005. The two Orange County women quickly bonded, sharing secrets and fun during nine months. But by early 2006, their friendship had collapsed ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Don Bren Plays Rough With Businesswoman, His Kids-But Courts Play Rough, Too

[Moxley Confidential] Meet Catherine Cass of Santa Ana, OC's Most Annoying Neighbor

Court Strikes Blow Against Prosecutors in Gang War

In an opinion issued today, a California Court of Appeal ruled that Orange County prosecutors overstepped their authority to seek tough penalties against hoodlums who violate court-imposed anti-gang injunctions. In January 2007, Sixto Moreno and Anthony Lopez—two Santa Nita gang members—drank b ... More >>

The Mind of a Pedophile

Two convicted child molesters get another stiff sentence for a crime they thought about committing

How Not to Commit Suicide

Unlucky OC man wanted to die quietly but landed in prison after explosion

'Gay Panic'

Three men go wilding; the gays made them do it

A Day in the Park With Hitler

I, Cardenas

More evidence that Orange County justice is just plain scary