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Michael Delgadillo, Off-Duty Cop Who Died in Crash, Had Been Drinking and Texting: Police

They say drinking and driving don't mix, but for the late Michael Delgadillo drinking, driving and texting didn't mix either. The Newport Beach Police Department, which is investigating the Costa Mesa Police detective's fatal, single-car crash on March 5, has disclosed that besides driving with a bl ... More >>

Santa Ana, Garden Grove Hold Sobriety Stops Tonight; Distracted Drivers Targeted Across OC

Some recent sobriety checkpoints in Orange County netted no or very few DUI arrests despite thousands of cars passing through them. Interpret that as you will--they're working or they're unnecessary--not that it matters what you think as more stops are coming, starting tonight in Santa Ana and Gar ... More >>

[UPDATED with Elkus Asks for Lawyer:] Dr. Ronald Franklin Gilbert Shot Dead; 75 y.o. Urology Patient Stanwood Fred Elkus Held

See Update Nos. 2-3 on page 2 with the DA's murder charges, more on the suspect's health, the doctor's treatment of him and the defendant's postponed arraignment this afternoon.See Update No. 1 after the jump with the suspect's mugshot, health woes and more on the physician. ORIGINAL POST, JAN. 29, ... More >>

Lindsey Knickerbocker, Daughter from Early Real Housewives of OC, Popped for Being Really Drunk, Ramming Cars and Punching Cop

Lindsey Knickerbocker, who appeared in an early episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County that famously featured her mother encouraging her to go topless for a fashion shoot, allegedly drove drunk, rammed two parked cars on Balboa Island and punched a cop late last year, a gossip site has repo ... More >>

Like Cocktails, the Messages in Winter Holiday DUI Death, Wreck and Arrest Data are Mixed

The good news from the winter holiday anti-DUI enforcement period in Orange County is there were no impaired driving related fatalities during that time. The bad news is more suspected drunk or drugged drivers were arrested than the year before. Better those 971 folks (compared with 836 the year bef ... More >>

[UPDATED with Suspect I.D., More Details:] Authorities: Shooting Today at Fashion Island; No Injuries (Thank God), Person in Custody

See the update on the next page identifying the suspect and providing more incident details.ORIGINAL POST, DEC. 15, 5:28 P.M.: Authorities have announced that there was a shooting late this afternoon at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, in the parking structure near Macy's. Macy's is currently was on ... More >>

Christopher John Aragon Gets 25 Years for Leading Sophisticated Credit Card Crime Ring

Christopher John Aragon, who pleaded guilty in March to leading a crime ring that stole thousands of personal identities for counterfeit credit cards used to buy high-end goods that were re-sold online, has been sentenced to 25 years in state prison. The Capistrano Beach 52-year-old is the final of ... More >>

[UPDATED with Husband Blaming Painter:] Quee Chadwick, OC Homicide No. 39: Millionaire Peter Gregory Chadwick Held

See Update No. 5 at the end of this post about the husband blaming a house painter for his wife's death and why police aren't buying that story.See Update Nos. 1-4 with the charge against and possible motive of the suspect, the kind of car he was driving, what authorities are calling his false murde ... More >>

[UPDATED with I.D.:] Terry A. Newhouse Commits Suicide After 7-Hour Standoff with Police at Balboa Coves

See the update at the end of this post identifying the deceased as Terry A. Newhouse.ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 2, 11:36 A.M.: One does not normally associate the tony Balboa Coves gated community--where current real estate listings show homes going for $1 million to $3 million each--with the kind of vio ... More >>

[UPDATED with Dumper Caught?] Dirty Diapers Raise Stink in Corona del Mar

See Update No. 2 at the end of this post about police possibly apprehending the dirty diaper dumper. See Update No. 1 about East Coast Highway's dirty diaper pile rising.ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 6, 6:06 A.M.: You may think living in Corona del Mar is the shit, but a serial dirty diaper dumper has litera ... More >>

Jeffrey David Kirby, Driver Who Killed TapouT's Charles "Mask" Lewis Jr., Loses Appeal Bid

The state appellate court has upheld the conviction of Jeffrey David Kirby, the Costa Mesa drunken driver who plowed his Porsche into a Ferrari driven by Charles "Mask" Lewis Jr. in Newport Beach in 2009, killing the Huntington Beach co-founder of the Tapout MMA clothing brand.Kirby argued in his ap ... More >>

[UPDATED with District Reaction:] Alex Bassinne, Ex-Santa Ana Teacher, Accused of Molesting Teen Girls, Possessing Child Porn

UPDATE, MAY 4, 12:39 P.M.: The Santa Ana Unified School District has released a statement regarding the charges pending against former district math teacher Alex Bassinne for alleged child pornography possession and, while working at Santa Ana High School and Raymond A. Villa Fundamental Intermediat ... More >>

[UPDATED with Coach Quits:] Larry Hirst, Newport Harbor High Basketball Coach, Possibly Threatened by Players so Program is Suspended

​UPDATE, MARCH 27, 11 A.M.: The violent threats that possibly came from Newport Harbor High School head basketball coach Larry Hirst's own players caused the veteran team leader to resign after 15 years with the Sailors, the school's principal reportedly confirmed."He was very fearful for himself ... More >>

Christopher John Aragon Guilty of Leading Crime Ring That Stole I.D.'s, Made Fake Credit Cards and Bought Goods Resold on Web

​Way back in January 2010, then-Weekling Spencer Kornhaber shared a video where a Newport Beach Police detective displayed the machinery hacker Christopher John Aragon used to forge credit cards based on real names and account numbers stolen off the interwebs. Aragon, 51, of Capistrano Beach, ple ... More >>

[UPDATED with Denial:] David F. Klassen, Spider-Man Art Director, in Transgender He Said/He-She Said Legal Spat

​UPDATE, NOV. 28, 5:11 P.M.: An attorney who says she represents David F. Klassen contacted the Weekly to counter accusations her client created a website to discredit a transgender singer who performs under the name Bralalalala. The lawyer, Yolanda Marsili of Newport Beach, says that neither she ... More >>

Protesters Disrupt Bankers Meeting at Balboa Club

​The LA Times is reporting that protesters disrupted a bankers conference held at a Newport Beach yacht club on Monday. According to Sgt. Steve Burdette, Newport Beach Police responded to the Balboa Bay Club Monday at 10 A.M., where a large group of protesters with a campaign known as ReFund Calif ... More >>

[UPDATED with Woman Reunited with Family:] Erika Lopez is Missing and Off Her Meds

​UPDATE, SEPT. 19, 6:08 P.M.: The Newport Beach-by-way-of-Boston woman who had been missing since Aug. 23 was found Monday in Irvine and reunited with her frantic family. Many feared the worst because Erika Lopez was alone, homeless, without a car and off her medication for schizophrenia and bipol ... More >>

[UPDATE] Jeffrey David Kirby Gets 9 Years for Killing TapouT Co-Founder Charles "Mask" David Lewis, Jr.

Jeffrey Kirby​UPDATE, FEB. 4, 1:09 P.M.: Second-time drunken driver Jeffrey David Kirby, 53, of Costa Mesa, was sentenced today to nine years in state prison for causing the crash that killed Charles "Mask" David Lewis, Jr., the co-founder of the Huntington Beach-based mixed-martial arts clothin ... More >>

[UPDATE:] Jeffrey David Kirby Convicted of Killing TapouT Co-Founder Charles "Mask" David Lewis, Jr.

Jeffrey Kirby​Update, December 10, 1:39 p.m.: Earlier this week, second-time drunken driver Jeffrey David Kirby, 53, of Costa Mesa was convicted of killing Charles "Mask" David Lewis, Jr., the co-founder of the Huntington Beach-based mixed-martial arts clothing company TapouT. You've read that Le ... More >>

[UPDATE:] 19 UC Irvine Students and Supporters Face Criminal Charges for Protesting

​​Update, December 10, 12:41 p.m.: Occupy UCI!--"an autonomous body in Orange County attempting to subvert hegemonic, state-supporting/ed protest by promoting radical discourse and militant action"--is accusing campus administrations of conspiring with prosecutors when it came to the timing of ... More >>

Trial Begins Monday for Alleged Killer of Charles Lewis Jr., "Mask" of MMA and TapouT Fame

​The trial for the man accused of killing Charles Lewis Jr., the 45-year-old Huntington Beach resident better known as mixed-martial arts clothing company TapouT's co-founder "Mask," is scheduled to begin Monday morning in Santa Ana, the Orange County District Attorney's Office announced.Jeffrey ... More >>

Newport Beach Rolls Out DUI Checkpoint

​Newport Beach Police hold a DUI checkpoint from 7:30 tonight to to 3 a.m. Saturday on northbound Dover Drive at 16th Street. Cops in the beachin' town also conduct "saturation patrols" in areas where the suds-soaked have been known to drive.So beware, lest you end up like the fellow at the right ... More >>

Daniel Moreno Guilty of Pelican Stomping

​A fisherman who stomped on a California brown pelican at Newport Beach pier last March pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor Tuesday and was sentenced to three years' informal probation and 20 days in jail.

Man Convicted in Texting-While-Driving Killing

​Martin Burt Kuehl, 42, of Costa Mesa, faces up to nine years in state prison after being convicted today of being so distracted by texting while driving that he killed a pedestrian.Martha Ovalle, 32, was crossing the interection at Westcliff and Dover drives in Newport Beach the morning of Aug. 2 ... More >>

$3.6 Million Fraud Plot Used Several Mortgages on Same House

Not the home in question but an amazing facsimile.​A married couple from Fountain Valley and a Newport Coast mortgage broker are scheduled to be arraigned in a Santa Ana courthouse this morning for their alleged roles in a $3.6 million fraud scheme that involved several mortgages being taken out o ... More >>

Crime Time: Is Tobias Fünke the "Blue Note Bandit"?

It's the Weekly's weekly crime round-up--now with more blatant Arrested Development imagery.Could Tobias Fünke be the "Blue Note Bandit" (Wednesday) or the man making "blown" offers (Thursday)?​TUESDAY, DEC. 1Nice Racks! After pulling over a silver 2004 Acura TL four-door at Newport Boulevard and ... More >>

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