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  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    [UPDATED with Corrected Details:] Arlet Hernandez Contreras, Fernando and Emmanuel Limas, OC Homicides Nos. 12, 13, 14: Shazer Fernando Limas May Face Death Penalty

    UPDATE, MAY 8, 4:10 P.M.: A statement on the continued arraignment of Orange 31-year-old Shazer Fernando Limas, who could get the death penalty for allegedly killing his girlfriend and their two young boys, gives new ages for the children.Said originally by Orange Police to have been 2 and 4 years o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Repeated Fender-Bender at Drive-Thru!

    ​You know, sometimes I feel sorry for Taco Bell. They can't choose their customer base (actually, they can if they ever decide to create better product--but that's another story), so they inevitably receive the country's lowlifes, the kind of folks who drive drunk to the Bell late at night to eat, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    [UPDATED with Correction:] Revenge of the Electric Car ALREADY ROLLED Into Long Beach

    ​CORRECTION, DEC. 12, 9:50 A.M.: No, it was not a bank of dead batteries that prevented filmmaker Chris Paine and his new documentary Revenge of the Electric Car from showing up as advertised (by . . . gulp . . . me) at the Art Theatre in Long Beach Sunday. As it turns out, that event was Dec. 4. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Night Two Last Night

    Andrew Youssef​KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Night TwoDecember 11, 2011Gibson AmphitheaterSee also: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Night One  After barely surviving Night One of KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas, my endurance was tested with another stellar line-up for Night Two. The Gibson ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Nissan Markets New Van To Food Truck Entrepreneurs

    ​ You know this food truck fad isn't quite done yet when one of the big automakers actually targets food vendors as a growth opportunity. At the LA Auto Show, which is happening as we speak, Nissan partnered with the Grilled Cheese Truck and the Coolhaus truck to show off the company's new NV comm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Fight Unemployment by Occupying a T-shirt

    ​Amid high unemployment, low opportunity and a heaping helping of frustration, Jason Sadler has come up with a way for jobless Californians to demonstrate their way into an income. And you don't have to occupy anything other than a t-shirt.Through his Illinois-based IWearYourShirt.com, Sadler says ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    [UPDATED with DA Report:] Brea Cop Cleared in Fatal Shooting of Julian "Jules" Collender

    ​UPDATE, JUNE 29, 4:56 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) today released an 11-page letter based on its investigation of last year's police shooting of the late Julian "Jules" Collender, but it is the final two paragraphs that say it all: "Based on all the evidence presented ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    [UPDATED] Eddie Sanchez, Long Beach Cop Busted by Cops, Gets Community Service, Probation and DUI Classes

    ​UPDATE, MARCH 28, 5:25 P.M.: Long Beach police officer Eddie Sanchez has been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and weaving in and out of traffic lanes the afternoon of May 24, 2010, in Garden Grove.The 30-year-old, who was off-duty at the time of the boozy driving, pleaded gui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Adrian Arroyo Gets 34 Years to Life for Shooting War Vet Caught in Gang Crossfire

    ​When a 25-year-old man identified only as Armando E. by prosecutors was serving with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, he was used to the sound of bullets whizzing by his ears and the feeling of being shot. At home in Garden Grove, not so much. But while he was playing in the front yard with his 10-y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Eddie Sanchez, Long Beach Cop, Busted by Cops

    ​You know what's embarrassing? Being so drunk that, after weaving in and out of traffic lanes, you stop at a green light and after honking vehicles stacking up behind you can't get you to budge, a driver gets out of his car, walks over to your car and shuts off your engine.You know what's really e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    "Pop the Lock Crew" Strikes Again!

    ​The Pop the Lock Crew has struck again!The three masked men tied to recent bank heists in Dana Point, Mission Viejo and Ladera Ranch are believed to be behind Tuesday's 5:40 p.m. robbery of the Wells Fargo at 28211 Crown Valley Parkway, Laguna Niguel.

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    2010 OC Auto Show is Electrifying

    ​As with past OC Auto Shows, the 2010 version allows visitors to check out the newest GMCs, Fords, Buicks, Chevys and Toyotas without being hassled by pushy salesmen.Those who enter the Anaheim Convention Center Thursday through Sunday can also be among the first people in the nation to drive the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Name That Cypress DUI Checkpoint Location

    ​The Cypress Police Department is conducting a DUI and driver's license checkpoint from 8 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday. However, cops are letting you guess where that checkpoint will be.Wherever it is, hopefully the next Richard Caselli will be stopped.

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    Tea Party On!

    The county's GOP central committee is in hot water with the tea party movement

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Toyota Prius Critic Turns a New LEAF

    An electrifying ride​Electric-car advocate/Toyota Prius critic Doug Korthof of Seal Beach is bullish on the hybrid Nissan LEAF.

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    From the Irvine Tea Party: It's Not Okay to F*ck Obama

    Spencer Kornhaber / OC WeeklyA Wheel of Fortune joke? Really?​That sign seems mean, right? Well, some people at today's tea party at the Irvine Auto Center agreed. They knew that scummy media types (ahem) would take pictures of it. So they made it go away.

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

    ​The Taco Bell crime of the week that's getting the most attention is Miami Dolphis star linebacker Joey Porter getting arrested outside a location for DUI; the crime that's probably the most hilarious happened in Charlotte and involved masked men robbing a spot for food (what methed mind thought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    DUI Patrols Out in Force Tonight

    ​Is it news that the Orange County Sheriff's Department will be looking extra hard for drunks behind the wheel tonight, or would it be news if they were not?Either way, the force announced "saturation patrols" will be out there as part of the "Avoid the 38" DUI Task Force, which is funded by the C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Crime Time: Rapers! Robbers! Wife Killer! Bad Cops! And a Real Bozo!

    It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--a day late and many dollars short of paying off the creditors who won't stop calling! Top photos courtesy of Huntington Beach Police Department A BOZO NO-NO: Here's the original suspect description Crime Time received for the Oct. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 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 $ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Crime Time: A Weekly Round-Up of OC Police Calls

    The "Clean-Cut Bandit": Coming to a bank near you?MONDAY, JUNE 1Shroomin' in Lagoonan: Laguna Beach Police arrested three people at a La Mirada Street property for alleged possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms, heroin, Xanax, Levitra, Alprazolam and "numerous other unknown pills." Steven Christophe ... More >>

  • Film

    April 2, 2009

    [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Aliens,' 'Casablanca,' 'Happy Go Lucky,' More

    The "Clean-Cut Bandit": Coming to a bank near you?MONDAY, JUNE 1Shroomin' in Lagoonan: Laguna Beach Police arrested three people at a La Mirada Street property for alleged possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms, heroin, Xanax, Levitra, Alprazolam and "numerous other unknown pills." Steven Christophe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    An OC-Based Car Empire Breaks Down

    madaise / Flickr / Creative CommonsThe Capistrano Insider caught a story in Automotive News about Newport Beach's Mike Kahn, who, until recently, ran one of the fastest-growing car dealership chains in America. Or at least, that's how Automotive News ranked his company in 2007. Come 2009, though,&nb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Let's Give the Nissan cube the New Old College Try

    Cal State Fullerton communications student Elizabeth Heath contacted the Weekly about a contest her Brand Campaigns class has entered to come up with the best advertising campaign for the Nissan cube.The cube is a car. It looks like a boxier Toyota Scion. Like the Scion, it is meant to appeal to you ... More >>

  • Music

    August 14, 2008

    Arabian Prince's Electro Legacy Gives Gangstas Something 2 Dance 2-Again

    Cal State Fullerton communications student Elizabeth Heath contacted the Weekly about a contest her Brand Campaigns class has entered to come up with the best advertising campaign for the Nissan cube.The cube is a car. It looks like a boxier Toyota Scion. Like the Scion, it is meant to appeal to you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

    Citizen of the Week!

    You’re a man who discovers your wife is having sex behind your back with another man. Would you kidnap him and have sex with him in public? This isn’t a hypothetical for 22-year-old Orange County resident Santiago Rivas Huerta. But I’ve jumped ahead of myself. In early 2004, Maria Jose Cruz ... More >>

  • News

    May 8, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] Police Files Tell the Back Story of Jonathan Tran's Murder of Hanna Montessori

    You’re a man who discovers your wife is having sex behind your back with another man. Would you kidnap him and have sex with him in public? This isn’t a hypothetical for 22-year-old Orange County resident Santiago Rivas Huerta. But I’ve jumped ahead of myself. In early 2004, Maria Jose Cruz ... More >>

  • News

    May 1, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] Politeness Didn't Help Montessori Killer Jonathan Tran at Sentencing

    You’re a man who discovers your wife is having sex behind your back with another man. Would you kidnap him and have sex with him in public? This isn’t a hypothetical for 22-year-old Orange County resident Santiago Rivas Huerta. But I’ve jumped ahead of myself. In early 2004, Maria Jose Cruz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2007

    Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Register UCI Panic!

    OC Gym Crook Arrested in LA: Police arrested Ronald James Navarrette Jr. of Mission Viejo Friday in El Segundo for breaking into men's lockers at the Spectrum Athletic Club not far from LAX. Gym employees had been on the lookout for the 45-year-old crook they knew from surveillance video taken at o ... More >>

  • Features

    June 28, 2007

    From Hunter to Hunted

    In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought hed seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar

  • Features

    June 7, 2007

    His Biggest Break

    Indie 103.1’s Surf Junkie Jeff keeps an eye on the waves—and tries to get Jonesy out on the water

  • News

    March 8, 2007

    'I Want the White Girl'

    Did a young Vietnamese professional terrorize OC prostitutes?

  • Film

    October 19, 2006

    The Rise of Nathan Baesel

    Fullerton actor hopes underground horror sensation is his grisly meal ticket

  • News

    July 20, 2006

    Thowing Rocks at Cars

    A sample of recent crime reports in Orange County

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2006

    OC Drivers on the Pipe

    According to the for-profit Orange County Automobile Dealers Association, the top new retail car and truck registrations this year through May: Toyota: 29.3% GM: 12% Honda: 11.5% Ford: 9.7% DaimlerChrysler: 6.3% Nissan: 5.6% According to the nonprofit Environmental Defense, the percentage of ... More >>

  • Music

    May 19, 2005

    Where the Real Roots Lead

    The Hootenanny has become predictable but thats good

  • Music

    June 5, 2003

    For the Love of Dewey

    The Hootenanny has become predictable but thats good

  • Features

    May 15, 2003

    Dude, Wheres My Electric Car!?!

    Can one activist fight off Detroit, Japan, Big Oil and the Bush administration to keep EVs alive?

  • News

    October 17, 2002
  • Music

    July 11, 2002

    R.I.P. Ox

    How the rich buy cars

  • Columns

    October 4, 2001

    Bad Hair Day

    How the rich buy cars

  • News

    August 26, 1999

    Orange Countys Radical Culture Czars

    Economists fear him. Adults emulate him. This kidand thousands like himare teaching corporations how to sell the world everything from edgy soft drinks to extreme sunglasses

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