Subject: New York Crime

• NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2007: LITTLE FUGITIVE REVIEW

  When his alcoholic mother irresponsibly leaves the house for the weekend, eleven-year-old Lenny "borrows" his mother's handgun for some afternoon fun. Annoyed by having to watch over his younger brother Joey, Lenny plays a hideously mean prank, convincingly pretending that he's been shot dead by Joey. Convinced that he has become a murderer, Joey runs away to Coney Island, where his grandfather used to live and work as a sideshow midget. There he begins to eke out a new existence with money col

  April 19, 2007

• 17th Time ain't a charm

  This morning, we noted that the man known as the "Irreconcilable Differences" bandit robbed his 16th bank out in Newport Beach. Now, CBS reports that a guy who matched his description was arrested in Glendale shortly after robbing a Wells Fargo. They got him in the parking lot of the local McDonald's. Some background info: "He got his nickname from his first bank robbery on Dec. 22 in Beverly Hills, when he told a teller he was going through a divorce and needed help wiring money, requesting

  June 5, 2007

• Harald Martin: Mexican Lover?

  Turns out everybody's favorite Mexican-suing, rape-victim-blaming, Zapatistas-supporting school trustee is actually Anaheim's only defender of poor, hopeless Mexicans--and he's getting hell for it. At least that's how Harald Martin describes himself. In a long, rambling letter sent last Friday to anti-Mexican movement madrina and California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe, Martin--a former trustee for the Anaheim Union High School Distict who was controversially re-appoint

  August 6, 2007

• Wake Up And Suck The Orange 1.22.08

  What you get to read this morning: SOBER-LIVING HOME DEBATE: LA Times - Balboa Peninsula's plethora of sober-living homes faces the wrath of the Newport Beach City Council as well as the Concerned Citizens of Newport Beach. One wonders whether these Citizens are related to the Cannery Village Concerned, who tried to have the Newport Brewing Company closed because (eek) it was a bar! Welcome to the peninsula, douchebags. WATER POLO GONE WILD: OC Register - Photos of OC high-school water-polo pl

  January 22, 2008

• MADD's Not Buying Study That Shows Lower Drinking Age Saves Lives

  Many of you reading this were not even born yet, but way, way, back in the 1990s, the early days when this was your daddy's OC Weekly, Mike Males was moonlighting stories for us while attaining a PhD in social ecology from UC Irvine. For instance, in February of 1999, Males wrote "Here Come the New Barbarians!," making it one of those rare stories from that long ago attainable from our online archive. Indeed, as link followers can see, the piece is so old timey that paragraph breaks had not yet

  January 8, 2009

• Carona Guilty of Witness Tampering

   "America's Sheriff" is a convicted felon.Ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona was found not guilty of multiple conspiracy counts and one witness tampering count in Santa Ana federal court today, but he was still found guilty of another witness tampering count. According to federal prosecutors, 53-year-old Carona faces a sentence of zero to 10 years in prison on that count after a yet-to-be scheduled sentencing hearing.First elected sheriff in 1998, Carona is the highest ranking law enforce

  January 16, 2009

• Cirilo Flores Rarely Pursued Discipline of Molesting Priests While Serving on Important Church Board

  January 15, 2009

• Help Titan Jon Wilhite, Honor Titan Courtney Stewart

  It's been highly publicized that Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart, 22, was killed in a collision just after midnight Friday. Some reporters have even added that Courtney Frances Stewart, the 20-year-old Diamond Bar resident who was driving the Mitsubishi Eclipse Adenhart rode in, and another passenger, Henry Nigel Pearson, 25, of Manhattan Beach, were also killed.There has been less mentioned about the fourth person in the car, lone survivor Jon Wilhite, who at press time had his condition up

  April 14, 2009

• The Crack-UP

  November 12, 1998

• ACLU: Guilty Pleas in Terror Case Pave Way for Appeals

  Mission Viejo's Hossein Kalani Afshari and six other Iranian-Americans who pleaded guilty last week to raising funds for a U.S.-designated terrorist group made the plea so they can appeal their case before a higher court, claims the ACLU. Besides 52-year-old Afshari, Roya Rahmani, 48, of Vienna, Va.; Alireza Mohammadmoradi, 38, of Los Angeles; Moustafa Ahmady, 54, of Los Angeles; Hassan Rezaie, 54, of Los Angeles; Navid Taj, 58, of Santa Monica; and Mohammad Omidvar, 54, of Corona entered guilty

  May 5, 2009

• Register Misses the Big Scoop in Debunked Zodiac Daughter Story!

  The Orange County Register ran a front page story today about Deborah Perez, the Corona woman who claims her adoptive father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, a carpenter who died in 1983, was actually the Zodiac killer. In case you don't already know, Perez' colorful claim first surfaced in an April 29 press conference in San Francisco, in which she asserted to have been present for some of the actual Zodiac murders, but forgot all about them until decades later. In newspaper jargon, Perez' story is alrea

  May 7, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 30

  Orange County Register: Fans gathered around a makeshift memorial outside Angel Stadium to honor pitcher Nick Adenhart, who died in a car accident. . . . A woman driving a car with a baby aboard was shot and killed in Santa Ana after leading police on a high-speed chase that began in Buena Park. . . . Another woman was not shot and killed in Rancho Santa Margarita after leading the CHP on a high-speed chase that began in Long Beach. . . . Orange County Transportation Authority spent ne

  April 10, 2009

• Mike Carona Trying to Curry Goodwill from Mexican Students and their Supporters

  Carona with a mob goonThe Orange County Hispanic Endowment Education Fund (HEEF) is a fine organization that gives out thousands of dollars in scholarships to deserving students every year and has done so for quite some time. Sometime this month, they will hold a reception for prospective recipients. Maybe some young scholar can ask this pertinent question to their elders: why does HEEF still allow disgraced, adulterous, felonious ex-sheriff Mike Carona to sully the group's name?Among the schola

  June 15, 2009

• Cancer Wasn't Killing Jack Jessee Fast Enough, So Did His Wife and Stepson Hire a Hit Man?

  July 30, 2009

• An Investigation Into a SF Cop Killing Leads to a Chicago Professor Who Helped Launch Obama's Career

  September 17, 2009

• [BEST OF OC] El Activista (the Activist): Brian Levin

  October 8, 2009

• Sex, Crimes and Videotape

  Wikipedia Commons​Imagine being 16-year-old Jane Doe from the "Haidl Three" gang-rape case. First, you discover three guys knocked you out with gin, sprawled your unconscious body on a pool table and garage sofa and then shoved a Snapple bottle, a lit cigarette, an apple-juice can, a pool stick and their body parts into your ass and vagina, all the while shooting video of the dirty deeds.Then, after the first trial against the defendants ends in mistrial, you actually see the sick DVD they mad

  September 25, 2009

• Crime Time: Ho' Attacker, Hammer Head, Bushman Packing Heat, Monkey Off the Market and Ryan Seacrest

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more ho' attackers, hammer heads, short robbers, skateboarding nazis, bloody bandagers, bushmen packing heat, baseball bat-wielding robbers, monkeys that are not for sale and Ryan Seacrest.Center photo by Melinda Nagy/Dreamstime.comBE TRUE TO YOUR CRIME-RIDDEN SCHOOL: Ah, a new school year is upon us. And so is schoolyard mayhem. A former security officer at Irvine's Beckman High School (top left) has been charged with two felony

  September 22, 2009

• La Voz de Aztlan Defends Local Muslims--By Demonizing Jews

  Carreon, at right: Who knew such a venomous man was an beer-bellied, middle-aged pendejo?​If I were a member of UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union, I'd be scared: Hector Carreon is taking up your cause! The sole writer of the notoriously gay-bashing, Jew-trashing La Voz de Aztlán--who has taken to leaving anonymous death threats against me and having minions leave homophobic slurs against me on other blogs--has recently posted twice on the latest controversy affecting the MSU in its eternal fig

  October 22, 2009

• Crime Time: Double the Fun Starring [Alleged] Skeevy Teachers, Fake Cop Robbers and Ryan Seacrest's Strange Stalker

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--actually the Weekly's TWO weekly round-up as an attempt is made to make up for lost vacation time.Left courtesy of E! Entertainment, right courtesy of Orange Police DepartmentRyan Seacrest (left) gets paid another visit from his No. 1 Army special forces fan, Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr.​SEACREST OUT, UZOMAH BACK IN Remember Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr., the 25-year-old Lakewood resident who pleaded guilty last month in Orange County Superior

  November 4, 2009

• The Other Cleat Drops in Case of Football Players and Friend Videotaping Rape of Passed-Out Woman

  Michael Clemmons​In "Sex, Crimes and Videotape," Clockwork told you about former Santa Ana City College football player Michael Alexander Clemmons, 20, of Tustin, and his former Tustin High School classmate John Paul Foster II, 23, of Seaside in Monterey County, pleading guilty Sept. 24 to charges of raping an intoxicated 18-year-old woman in a Tustin motel and videotaping their crimes. The other cleat has dropped as a second former player with the Santa Ana Dons--Luster Mitchell Le

  November 9, 2009