Los Angeles Police Department

[UPDATED with Winning Bid:] Anyone Want to Buy Chris Dorner's Gun?

See the update at the end of this post on the winning bid.ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 12, 3:43 P.M.: A Southern Nevada pawn shop owner is hoping someone will drop a couple thousand on a .38 Special Christopher Dorner reportedly sold to him in January. Morbid, true, but at least it's not a weapon ex-LAPD co ... More >>

FBI Arrests Identity Thief For Taking $610,000 From Fountain Valley Bank

In December 2010, a Sunset Beach woman got a terrible surprise when she went to a Huntington Beach branch of U.S. Bank to pay off her mortgage and discovered that three weeks earlier a stranger had emptied her account of more than $610,000.According to court records, an FBI investigation determined ... More >>

Ex-Orange County Sheriff's Captain Loses Federal Retaliation Lawsuit

In Nov. 2010, an Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) captain filed a federal lawsuit claiming that Sheriff Sandra Hutchens plotted to lay her off in retaliation for speaking up against gross mismanagement in Homeland Security operations and about potential internal corruption involving a ... More >>

Christopher Dorner Death: Sheriff Defends Tactics But Suggests They May Have Been Better

"As I thought about this, if it was not our department involved in this event, we would be watching this event on TV, looking at what they were doing and asking ourselves, 'If this occurred in our county, would we be prepared to deal with it, and how would we deal with it?' So this is a learning eve ... More >>

Christopher Dorner Manhunt Makes Southern California Police Pilots Behave

Numerous Southern California airborne law enforcement pilots routinely like to fly low and loud over residential communities in asinine displays of power on par in maturity with uneducated punks who roll down their car windows and blare obnoxious music at stop lights.But not for the last three tonig ... More >>

Robert Pimentel, Retired Teacher Accused of Having Sexually Abused a Dozen Girls in LA, Allegedly Victimized One of Them in OC, Too

Newport Beach retiree Robert Pimentel, who is fighting charges he touched at least 12 little girls sexually during his Los Angeles Unified School District teaching career, committed lewd acts on one of the victims in Orange County, according to authorities. Already facing criminal counts tied to tha ... More >>

Professional Tax Preparer Wins Prison Trip For IRS Cheating Scams

As a professional tax preparer, Mark Joseph Jensen didn't just help steal money from the U.S. Treasury by falsifying tax returns in the name of his clients. Jensen also secretly diverted client refunds into his own bank account and didn't bother to file income tax documents for himself during severa ... More >>

Expendable Tunes: Five Breathtakingly Epic Action Movie Themes

See Also: *House of Campaign - Five Rap Songs Looking For Your Vote *Going for the Gold: Five 2012 Rap Songs To Inspire Our Olympic Team*Monday Night Raw's Six Most Memorable Music Moments This weekend sees the release of The Expendables 2. One of this summer's most anticipated, muscle-flexing, r ... More >>

Dispatches From Anaheimistan

A week after shootings that roiled the city, Anaheim still looks like a warzone

Lucas Anthony Tang, 2 y.o Who Died in Fall, Was Not Staples Center's Responsibility: Judge

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has tossed the lawsuit a Garden Grove couple brought against the Staples Center after their toddler son fell to his death from a luxury suite after a November 2010 Lakers game.Arena management were not duty bound to watch Lucas Anthony Tang for the 2-year-ol ... More >>

We Check Up on the Long Beach Addresses in Sublime's Riot Song "April 29, 1992 (Miami)"

Yesterday marked 20 years since the acquittal of four LAPD officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King incited several days of violence and looting in South Central Los Angeles. But it's also been 20 years since a similarly motivated uprising erupted in nearby Long Beach, resulting in numerous ... More >>

LAPD Officer Charged with Threatening Fullerton Woman's Life

​It sounds like the Los Angeles Police Department found a regular Cyrano de Bergerac when it hired Sgt. Joshua Jinwook Chong. The Orange County District Attorney says the 41-year-old Fullerton resident sent threatening text messages to an unidentified woman with whom he had formerly been romantica ... More >>

Stop Stealing Our Cars, New Documentary, Shows Santa Ana's Fight Against Unjust Impound Policies

​Working-class immigrant residents of SanTana have been beneficiaries of new, fairer vehicle impound policies since October 1, 2011, when activists scored a solid grassroots victory. Stop Stealing Our Cars, set to premiere this Saturday at El Centro Cultural de Mexico in the city's downtown, is an ... More >>

Vagan Adzhemyan, Former Champion Armenia Wrestler, Gets 30 Years for Violent Kidnapping

​A former Armenia wrestling champion living in Costa Mesa was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for kidnapping a business associate who was accidentally shot during the abduction before being beaten, tased and denied medical attention while his captor negotiated a $1 million ransom."No one d ... More >>

The Fullerton Police Department Are the Bullies In Blue

Long before officers beat Kelly Thomas to death, the city's cops ran roughshod over anyone and everyone

[UPDATED with UCI Chief "Appalled":] UC Protesters Get Help From Above to Stop Campus Cops' Baton Jabs and Pepper Spraying

​UPDATE, NOV. 23, 10:24 A.M.: UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake has issued a statement where he says that he is "appalled" by the police response to peaceful demonstrators on other campuses as witnessed in recent YouTube videos. The brutal actions violate UC policies, procedures and the sense of ... More >>

Jay Cicinelli, Fullerton Police Officer Charged in Kelly Thomas' Death, Won't Have His LAPD Pension Reviewed

Jay Cicinelli​Even though Fullerton stopped paying Cpl. Jay Cicinelli on Oct. 8 -- three months after he and other Fullerton cops beat Kelly Thomas to death -- he's still getting a fatty pension paycheck.And, today's vote by the board that oversees cop pensions in LA, ensured that that's not gonna ... More >>

Tom Sizemore Busted Days After His Movie is Feted in Santa Ana

​Sunday night, OC Film Fiesta capped another successful run in Santa Ana with a screening and celebration of the film White Knight starring Tom Sizemore.Early Tuesday, Sizemore was arrested in Los Angeles on an outstanding warrant for misdemeanor battery.

[UPDATED with Charlie Sheen, Maid's BJ Chatter:] Lenny Dykstra's Spectacular Fall Continues with Fed and Local Crime Charges

​UPDATE, APRIL 26, 11 A.M.: The lawyer for Lenny Dykstra is denying rampant media reports that Charlie Sheen bailed the embattled former Major League Baseball star out of jail. Meanwhile, the hits keep coming against the former New York Met and Philadelphia Philly facing federal fraud and loc ... More >>

Who Will Save Charlie Sheen? A List of Possible Saviors

It doesn't have to end like this​Charlie Sheen now admits that he's losing his mind, but since his public downward spiral began, the meth-tastic actor has been thumbing his nose at offers of help from family, friends, Dr. Drew, and traditional rehab programs. Who will save Charlie Sheen? And can h ... More >>

Porn-ing In America

A Reagan-era bacchanalia succumbs to soggy nostalgia in 'Take Me Home Tonight'

Traffic Jammers Imperial Stars Hit with Conspiracy Charges for Blocking 101 Freeway

Courtesy of Imperial Stars​Our sister publication LA Weekly has  an update on the members of Imperial Stars. The Garden Grove trio who blocked the 101 last October to raise awareness for the "homeless children" were finally charged yesterday by the LA D.A.'s office.Christopher Wright, Pa ... More >>

FYF Fest @ Los Angeles State Historic Park Over the Weekend

Mary Bell/OC WeeklyThe Rapture closed out the festival​Check out our FYF Fest slideshow here!FYF FestLos Angeles State Historic ParkSeptember 4, 2010Don't let anyone mislead you about  FYF Fest. It was not held in the shadow of downtown Los Angeles. The daylong  celebration of all thing ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Eamon Daniel Higgins GUILTY in Foreign Student Visa Fraud

UPDATE: Defendant pleads guilty (details below) . . . Courtesy of ICEAn ICE officer escorts a student visa fraud suspect into custody today.​Eamon Daniel Higgins, 46, of Laguna Niguel, pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiracy for allegedly orchestrating a visa fraud scheme involving doz ... More >>

Crime Time: Methed Mom, Nitrous Oxide, a Full Moon, a Gutted Black Cat and a Skateboarding Giant Ax Carrier

It's our weekly Weekly roundup of Orange County police calls--with suspect mugs!TUESDAY, JULY 7Courtesy of Cypress Police DepartmentAlison Le Anne EbertAt Least She Left the TV On Officers responding to an anonymous, 4:45 a.m. report of child abuse in a home in the 8500 block of La Homa Street in Cy ... More >>

Jacko and Freedom CEO Flanders: Just Beat It

Not sure which stage of grief this falls under, but as the initial reports of Michael Jackson's death were coming out, what are assumed to be Orange County Register and/or Freedom Communications insiders were linking the King of Pop's departure from Earth with Freedom CEO Scott Flanders' departure f ... More >>

Crime Time: No Incidents at Home Plate Before Angel Game

Photos by Professional Services Responder George Ridley Olszynski, Lewellyn, Palmer and Hutchens play hardball.This week's Weekly round-up of local police calls is illustrated with a photo of Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, Anaheim Police Sgt. Greg Palmer, who is president of the Anaheim Pol ... More >>

Racial Tension, Above and Below the Surface, In Neil LaBute's 'Lakeview Terrace'

Sheriff Sandra Hutchens' Green Dream Team

The last time Orange County's sheriff announced the department's new management team, Bill Clinton was president, gasoline cost less than a buck fifty, people could afford their mortgages, and you didn't have to remove your shoes to enter buildings or airport terminals. Everything was better then--e ... More >>

Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Police Seek Laguna Retard

The Fourth Reich: Way before there was “Don’t Taser me, dude!” there was Benito Acosta, arrested by Costa Mesa police after he allegedly spoke too long during a January 2006 city council meeting. Acosta opposed training local police as INS agents, a pet project of Mayor Allan Mansoor. A right ... More >>

An Eiffel of Action

The third time around, Tucker and Chan's Rush Hour still charms

Tomorrow's Misery Today

OnDVD: Children of Men

Paint It Black

De Palma and Ellroy tap one of LAs darkest mysteries

Diary of a Mad County

May 30 - June 6

It Makes Television Smart

Strange Bedfellows Orange County has more cliches than The O.C.

Dr. Jihad

The crusading life of Islam expert Robert Morey

The Police Department Nabokov

Uncle Frankie's treasure chest

Letters

SXSWXOC

Our annual South By Southwest report

Exhibit X-Rated

UPDATED: The Blockbuster DVD the Haidl Defense Doesnt Want You to See

Exhibit X-Rated

The Blockbuster DVD the Haidl defense doesnt want you to see

Ann Coulters Pillow Case

Victory leaves the El Toro message board with some time for other matters

Diary of a Mad County

The Untouchables

Biggie & Tupac doesnt solve anything

Natural Causes

The naked life and veiled death of a Playboy Playmate

Bored to Death

The Voids cure the suburban yawns

Wiggedy-Wiggedy

The very fonky Democratic convention won us back!

You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, We'll Sue

Testilying

Video embarrasses DA, Newport cops

Bombay Breakdown