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April 15, 2013
Boston Marathon Explosions Bring "Heightened Alert" in Orange County: Sheriff Hutchens
Orange County is on "heightened alert" due to today's Boston explosions that have killed at least two and injured nearly two dozen people, according to Sheriff Sandra Hutchens. "Although the tragic incident in Boston, Massachusetts this afternoon appears to be isolated, the Orange County Sheriff's D ... More >>
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April 2, 2013
[UPDATED with Suicide:] Melissa Rae Sutor is Missing and Had Been Acting "Strangely"
See the update at the end of this post about the woman reportedly taking her own life.ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 1, 1:49 P.M.: Have you seen Melissa Rae Sutor? The 28-year-old left her San Juan Capistrano home around 11:30 a.m. Friday, has not been seen since and is considered "endangered" by authorities.
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March 15, 2013
[UPDATED with Irvine DUI Stop:] St. Patrick's Day Weekend Sobriety Checkpoints: San Clemente, Tustin, Orange, Laguna Beach
See the update at the end of page 2 with the date and location of Irvine's DUI checkpoint.ORIGINAL POST, MARCH 15, 10:44 A.M.: Beginning tonight and continuing through early Monday, DUI checkpoints and special patrols will be scattered across Orange County due to the gallons of green beer flowing ov ... More >>
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March 7, 2013
Fund Collects Assistance for Annette Aoki, Mother of Ali Syed's First Presumed Victim
A reader wondered if an online page he found to donate to Annette Aoki, the mother of Ali Syed'd presumed first murder victim in Ladera Ranch Courtney Aoki, was legitimate, especially in light of the phony money-collecting sites that sprang up after the Sandy Hook tragedy.So the Weekly asked the Ora ... More >>
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February 26, 2013
Peter Garcia and Ex Virginia Kay Furr-Garcia Guilty of Stealing $350k From His 91-year-old Mom
A Santa Ana jury Monday found a former couple guilty of stealing $330,000 from the husband's then-89-year-old mother. Peter Garcia, 70, and Virginia Kay Furr-Garcia, 50, both of San Clemente, each now face up to six years in prison at their March 22 sentencing.
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January 30, 2013
Verta Parker is Missing from Midway City Assisted Living Center; Have You Seen Her?
Verta Parker, who is disabled and uses a medical walker, usually sticks close to Pacifica Royale Assisted Living Community in Midway City, but she will go out for short strolls that last a couple hours.She left for her last one around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, but has not been seen by Pacifica Royale staf ... More >>
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January 28, 2013
Orange County Deputies Seek Approval of $1.1 Million Undercover Vehicle Rental Deal
Boss at the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) want to extend a 2010 undercover vehicle rental contract worth more than $1.1 million annually through February 2014 without additional competitive bidding.County supervisors will consider the request at their Jan. 29 public hearing in Santa Ana ... More >>
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January 18, 2013
[UPDATED with Stanton, Villa Park Patrols:] Costa Mesa Hosts DUI Checkpoint Tonight
See the update at the end of this post about sheriff's department roving patrols tonight.ORIGINAL POST, JAN. 18, 9:22 A.M.: The Costa Mesa Police Department holds a DUI checkpoint from 8 tonight through 8 a.m. Saturday, which I believe is the longest such operation I've ever reported here.Guess Righ ... More >>
Blogs
December 26, 2012
Leslie Keane, Laguna Woods City Manager, Popped for DUI in Laguna Hills
Laguna Woods City Manager Leslie Keane knows very well that the countywide, wintertime, Orange County Sheriff's Department-led enforcement against drunken drivers is working.That's because the 64-year-old was popped by sheriff's deputies late Friday for suspected DUI in Laguna Hills.
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December 14, 2012
Seal Beach, Laguna Hills, Los Alamitos DUI Checkpoints Tonight, Tustin on Saturday
The multi-agency "Avoid the 38" Anti-DUI Task Force has released its winter schedule, which includes DUI checkpoints from 7 tonight through 3 a.m. Saturday in Seal Beach, Laguna Hills and Los Alamitos.Exact intersections were not revealed.
Blogs
November 14, 2012
[BREAKING:] Have You Seen This Man? Todd Hansen and His '61 Jeep Pickup Are Missing
Todd Hansen moved to Orange from the San Diego area about a year ago, grew a goatee since the picture at right was taken and called his work on Halloween to say he wasn't feeling well and would be going to a local emergency room for treatment.He and his white vintage 1961 Jeep "Willys" pickup truck ... More >>
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October 23, 2012
Orange County Sheriff Melting 501 Firearms ... for World's Largest Cufflinks?
The Orange County Sheriff's Department will have the makings of a great pair of cufflinks Wednesday morning, when 501 firearms will be melted down.Actually, the 305 handguns and 196 long guns will be taken to a still mill that will melt them down for reinforcing bar, also known as rebar.
Blogs
September 4, 2012
Bryan Scott, OC Jail Inmate, Dies in Custody at UCI Medical Center
The headline pretty much says it all. According to a two-paragraph press release issued Sept. 2 by the Orange County Sheriff's Dept., Bryan Scott, a 49-year-old man, perished while being treated for an undisclosed condition inside the jail ward of the UCI Medical Center. The press release states tha ... More >>
Blogs
August 15, 2012
7 Programs Worth a Bullet to the Big Screen
The Orange County Sheriff's Department was summoned at 10:32 p.m. Aug. 7 to a Laguna Niguel home where a husband had allegedly shot his TV because he did not want his wife watching it.Not to make light of 67-year-old Lawrence Paul Sentif's felony arrest--on suspicion of grossly negligent discharge o ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2012
Anaheim PD's Confidential Action Plan for July 29 Protests: Have Undercover Cops, Feed Tired Officers with Fancy Food, and Let the City Burn
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting and subsequent desmadre archivesLike the good Boy Scouts they are, Anaheim cops were über-prepared two weeks ago when protesters, angered by the officer-involved shooting deaths of Manuel Diaz and Joel Acevedo, announced they would demand justice on July 2 ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2012
[UPDATED with Checkpoints Tonight in Sous-a Ana, Wet-minster and Beer Garden Grove:] Extra DUI Patrols in Drank Forest, Mixin' Viejo and Rancho Santa Margaritaville
UPDATE, JUNE 8, 11:11 A.M.: In addition to the sheriff's department's DUI patrols in Lake Forest, Mission Viejo and Ranch Santa Margarita, city police agencies hold sobriety checkpoints tonight in Westminster, Santa Ana and Garden Grove.The Westminster and Garden Grove police departments did not ann ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2012
Orange County Election Results Trickle In But Todd Spitzer is Back on His Path to the White House
As we approach midnight, our Orange County Registrar of Voters claimed that in four hours he was only able to tabulate 2.7 percent of today's election votes and, because of that incompetence, I'm slightly pissed that I missed most of NBC's "Love in the Wild."Yet, I will go to sleep with a satisfied ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2012
Police Find 2 Grenades at Cypress Home, But Resident Says He Has a Third
While serving a search warrant at a home in the 5300 block of Bishop Street in Cypress this morning, the man of the house being cuffed for alleged narcotics sales mentioned he had three grenades on the premises. The disclosure prompted a call to the Orange County Sheriff's Department Bomb Squad, ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Sobriety Checkpoint in Anaheim and Roving Patrols for Boozy Drivers in South County Tonight
The Anaheim Police Department is holding a sobriety checkpoint tonight through early Saturday.Meanwhile, the Orange County Sheriff's Department has roving DUI patrols in some of the South County cities it patrols tonight.Check after the jump for the exact locations.
Blogs
October 28, 2011
Garden Grove, Stanton and Villa Park Start Anti-Booze Patrols Tonight
Garden Grove Police Department's DUI Enforcement Team is deploying officers for special saturation patrols tonight and Saturday night to crack down on drunken drivers. The Orange County Sheriff's Department is also holding the patrols tonight in Stanton and Villa Park.With saturation patrols, pol ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2011
[UPDATED with Victim's Death:] Leovardo Vera Bustos, OC Homicide No. 33: Dies From Single Punch Outside Nightclub
Medina-PerezUPDATE, JULY 26, 7:44 A.M.: 24-year-old Westminster resident Leovardo Vera Bustos has died from the brain injuries suffered after sustaining a single punch in front of La Barca NIght Club in Stanton on July 5.Bustos fell backward, hit the ground hard, lost consciousness and never reg ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
[UPDATED with More Arrests, Lesser Charges:] ~~Acid~~ Dry-Ice Bombs Blast South County
MeluginUPDATE, JUNE 29, 10:58 A.M.: Sheriff's investigators have made two more arrests in what were first described as two separate "acid bomb" attacks in Laguna Hills and Mission Viejo. Deputies now claim there were six South County bombings last Thursday night, but the homemade devices relied n ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
[UPDATED with Bigamy Charge:] Antonio Potenciano Gana, OC Homicide No. 15: Allegedly Shot By Wife Accused of Also Shooting Son on Mother's Day
UPDATE, MAY 12, 1:20 P.M.: A Filipino newspaper reports Antonio Potenciano Gana, the 72-year-old Mother's Day murder victim, is the former general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority, which oversees the airport in the country's capital. The Philippine Star also claims the slai ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
DUI Patrols Intensify for Cinco de Drinko
I mean, it's not like your favorite outpost of alternative newsiness is bastardizing the Mexican Army's unlikely victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, with "Cinco de Drinko" listings. Er, check that.Anyways, in other Cinco de Drunk Tank news, the countywide "Avoid the 38 ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Substitute Teachers Gone Wild on Glee and in OC
What in tarnation is going on with substitute teachers these days?Tuesday night, we had Gwyneth Coldplay's sub on Glee shaking her groove thang, chastising chastity and generally sexing up the screen. Why, it was enough make Bristol Palin pop out another kid out of wedlock.Now comes a report of a ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Avoid Pink Elephants and Roving DUI Patrols Tonight
Take a cab, plan an alternate route, or get your drink on somewhere else: roving sobriety patrols will be out tonight in Lake Forest, Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita."These multi-city DUI teams will target areas that have a high incidence of DUI-related arrests and collisions," reads an ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Danielle Rene Deichman Charged With Filing False Sex Attack Report That Put South County in a Panic
A 20-year-old woman who sparked alarm throughout South County of a predator on the loose after she reported being sexually assaulted in the same area as another recent attack, has been charged with misdemeanor counts of filing a false police report and resisting arrest.Danielle Rene Deichman of L ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2011
Edward Justin La Porte, Ex-Cop Accused of Pulling Fake Massage-Parlor Check and Getting Free Rubdown While Naked, May Have Hit More Shops
The Orange County Sheriff's Department is reaching out to local massage parlors.Betcha never thought you'd read that--well, not since international connoisseur of "phenomenal pussy" Mike Carona was run out of the sheriff's office.The alert to spas and massage parlors comes after the alleged illeg ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
[UPDATED:] Tustin, Cypress, La Habra, Costa Mesa, Dana Point and Garden Grove Hold DUI Checkpoints Tonight, a Bunch More Follow Through the Holidays
Update, December 17, 2:46 p.m.: Irvine Police announce a DUI checkpoint for Saturday night (weather permitting). Details on next page.Update, December 17, 12:11 p.m.: Two more DUI checkpoints will be held tonight, in Seal Beach and Huntington Beach.The Seal Beach operation runs from 6 tonight ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2010
[UPDATED:] Paul Marshal Curry, Accused of Killing Wife by Poisoning in '94, Gets Arraignment Delayed
Update, December 7, 1:41 p.m.: The arraignment of Paul Marshal Curry, a 54-year-old Kansas building inspector accused of poisoning his wife of two years in San Clemente in 1994 to collect a $400,000 insurance claim, has been delayed until Jan. 14.Meanwhile, officials in Salina, Kansas, say Curry ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2010
[UPDATED:] Video Shows Creeper on Bus Touching Girl's Leg, Trying to Unzip Second Girl's Pants: Cops; More Teens Come Forward
UPDATE: Two more teenagers have come forward to allege the suspect toughed them inappropriately on a bus (see end of post) . . . Surveillance video shows Herath Premaratnea getting on and off Orange County Transit Authority buses for four hours on Monday, mostly along routes 55 and 47.
Blogs
August 17, 2010
On Record, the Carpenters Bombed
Could it have been this 45?The Register reports that the Cypress Police Department received a suspicious package Monday, which led to a call to the Orange County Sheriff's Department bomb squad. The dangerous package? "An old 45 single by The Carpenters, with a note asking police t ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2010
Warning to Rummies: DUI Patrols Tonight!
Brooklyn Museum ArchivesDid somebody order a designated driver?If you're driving in Lake Forest, Mission Viejo or Rancho Santa Margarita today, you may notice more sheriff's patrol cars on the road than usual.And, if you've been drinking:1) What are you doing driving, butt wipe?2) The deputies in ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
Police/French Army to be Out in Force to Stop Cinco de Drinko Imbibers/Mexican Army
If you celebrate Cinco de Mayo today in Cinco de Drinko style (see the current print edition for places to get sauced--or salsaed), you may want to pretend that you are a member of the Mexican army and the police are invading French soldiers.That's because cops will be out in force today not to c ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2010
Fake craigslist Ad Brings Rush of Lookiloos to San Clemente Home
From PeepersDennis Romero over at our big sis' paper LA Weekly has a post about a craigslist rental advertisement that sent a bunch of lookiloos to a San Clemente pad that was going to be leased out for $3,500 a month.The problem was the couple living in the 2,800-square-foot home had not yet pla ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2010
Small Time Crooks Accused of Tunneling into Medical Marijuana Dispensary
Which way to the pot?In the 2000 Woody Allen movie Small Time Crooks, a dim, nickle-and-dime criminal hatches a plan to re-open a pizza place so he and his dimmer cronies can dig through to a bank down the street. Proving that inspiration can come from anywhere, three men allegedly tunneled thei ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
Dawn Marie Baloun, Teacher at Juvie, Charged With Kissing and Fondling Boy
CORRECTION: The victim's age was incorrect in an earlier version of this post. A female teacher at a juvenile correctional facility in Trabuco Canyon was charged today with having an unlawful relationship with a 15 16-year-old housed at the facility by kissing and fondling him after meeting in ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2010
Deputies Hunt for Drunken Drivers in South County Tonight
Anaheim is not the only Orange County town launching DUI saturation patrols tonight.
Blogs
January 7, 2010
Is There an App For Stopping the Baddies Following You From the Apple Store?
Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentArrested were (clockwise from top right): Garzon Omar David Diaz; Louis Carlos Lopez and John Marlon Rodriguez.The three Los Angeles men above have been arrested in connection with more than 80 burglaries and car break-ins targeting customers they'd a ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2009
Roving Patrols to Catch Drivers Under the Influence of Eggnog
Toni Blay on flickr, Creative Commons.We already warned you about DUI checkpoints to be held in Anaheim, Costa Mesa and Westminster this weekend. If you saw that post and thought "Merry me, I don't live in central county so I can go crazy with the hard cider in my hatchback tonight"... we've got ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2009
'Tis the Season to Bone Nonprofits, Fa La La La La, La La La La
Above is the logo on boxes like those stolen this past Thanksgiving weekend from the United Labor Agency of Orange County in Garden Grove, where 20,000 pounds of food, more than $25,000 worth of donated toys and other items for the benefit of underprivileged families were taken. Total estimated l ... More >>
Blogs
November 19, 2009
DUI Checkpoints Set For Stanton and Villa Park
Here's government-sponsored motivation for you to make it safely to Thanksgiving. The Orange County Sheriff's Department announced this morning that its "DUI Task Force" will conduct "roving patrols" in Stanton and Villa Park on Friday, November 20. Deputies will target areas that attract drunks ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 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 spe ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2009
Register Readers Wrongly (and Repeatedly) Convicted Elderly Hubby of Murdering Wife
Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentR.I.P., Margot WaltersThe Orange County Register reports the body of a woman found Wednesday night in Woodfield Park has been identified by the coroner as Margot Walters, who went missing in Aliso Viejo July 17. The 76-year-old, who'd exchanged words ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2009
Did the Moon Rise for Last Time at Annual Mugs Away Event?
Photo by Christopher VictorioIt's mighty uncrowded along the fence as folks bare their asses for passing trains Saturday.After getting the greenlight from the Laguna Niguel City Council, the Orange County Sheriff's Department beefed up its presence before Saturday's annual mooning of passing trains ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2008
Mike Carona Showed Newport Beach Police Who Is Boss!
"I, uh, also want you to know that not only isn't he getting his sheriff's badge, there won't be a mother fucker from the Orange County Sheriff's Department that'll be there. So I called all of the command staff together and I said, 'Well, you know, I can't tell people what to do on their own time, ... More >>
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September 5, 2007
Wednesday's Headlines: Fishnets: yes. Hijabs: no.
Fishnets fine, but no hijabs: Souhair Khatib, a Muslim lady who was jailed for a probation violation last November, is suing the Orange County Sheriff's Department for allegedly violating her religious rights by forcing her to remove her head scarf. Jail officials say they had her hijab removed bec ... More >>
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