Subject: Orange Police Department

• How to Build a Band

  June 28, 2001

• How to Build a Band

  June 28, 2001

• Gay Bowling Night at The Block in Orange Strikes Out

  For the past six weeks, folks who like their bowling mixed with lots of hunky gay guys dancing to techno music while being entertained by a Phyllis Diller-impersonating drag queen called "Momma" have been gathering at Lucky Strike Lanes in the Block at Orange. The so-called "Spin Tuesdays" event quickly became so popular that a few hundred patrons typically spilled out on the sidewalk when the club closed each morning at 2 AM.Gay bowling night proved to be not so popular with the police however,

  March 11, 2009

• Orange Residents Gathering to Protest Gang Injunctions

  A demonstration will be held in Orange Saturday to warn residents they could become victims of racial profiling by the city police department and gang injunctions by the county district attorney.Gang injunctions are similar to restraining orders courts issue to protect potential victims from someone who has indicated he or she will do them harm. Injunctions prohibit those identified as gang members in court documents from hanging out together, wearing gang clothing, throwing gang signs and other

  March 19, 2009

• Law-Enforcement Claims Historic Chicano Mural in Orange Sensationalizes Gangs-30 Years Later

  April 9, 2009

• Wheel of Misfortune

  Advocate for the disabled Charles Monson was also a medical-marijuana patient—until late last month

  November 15, 2007

• Face Off

  A Little Saigon identity-theft ring pounded OC businesses until one cop saw a tear in its veil of secrecy

  August 30, 2007

• Anthrax Schmanthrax

  November 1, 2001

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 16, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 23, 2009

• King of the County Pedophiles

  December 15, 2005

• Fieldstoned

  November 6, 2003

• Good Gaddi Almighty!

  February 28, 2002

• Bad Rap

  March 15, 2001

• Part 10: I Had a Dream There Were Clowns in My Cupcakes

  October 26, 2000

• Silenced Sonics

  July 22, 1999

• Little Old Lady Reluctantly Pleads Guilty, Gets Probation

  This little grandma got probation.*This is an update to our earlier story.*Wearing a red knit cardigan, and barely visible in an oversized wheelchair, Genoveva Aranda wept heartily yesterday afternoon after she was given a year of probation in criminal court for a few minor construction code violations in her home (read our earlier post on her situation here). In courtroom C66 at the Superior Courthouse in Santa Ana, Aranda reluctantly agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts as part of

  May 14, 2009

• Orange's Barrio Cypress Residents Fought the DA's Gang Injunction—and Won (Sort Of)

  May 28, 2009

• King of the County Pedophiles

  December 15, 2005

• Crime Time: Stabbings, Curfews, Drunk Marines, Drunk Councilman and Van's a-Rockin'

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more stabbings and [alleged] drunken-driving politicians . . . Courtesy Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentKnew those Trader Joe's bags were good for something . . .​MONDAY, JULY 27Cash and Carry A man walked up with a Trader Joe's bag in hand to a teller at the Wells Fargo branch near Alicia Parkway and Charlinda Drive in Mission Viejo around 12:45 p.m. He asked for and received cash before walking out. Surveillance cameras reve

  August 4, 2009

• Anti-Gang-Injunction Activist Says Orange P.D. Ganged Up On Her Kids

  August 13, 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 $700 from a Mission Viejo Wells Fargo on July 27. Bottom left and right: Surveillance photos from armed robbery that occurred around 9:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at the Orange Olive Mini Market in Orange. ​It'

  August 18, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 20, 2009

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises

  Top U.S. Secrets to Crooks, Idiots and Dopers: The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., reports this morning that the Pentagon, the guys running the Iraq War, now want Congress to allow national security clearances for government employees who are “ex-convicts, drug addicts and mentally incompetent.” Congress currently bans the practice. But Pentagon brass say the restriction “unduly” handicaps the Department of Defense and note that people should be forgiven for their sins—unless, of

  July 10, 2007

• Can the Colectivo Tonantzin and the ACLU Beat Orange's Anti-Day-Laborer Ordinance?

  October 1, 2009

• Crime Time: F-Bombers, Tiki Takers, Beatles Fans, Creepy Molesters and Tawny Kitaen on the Loose

  FACES OF TAWNY Actress, ex-Anaheim Angel wife, car hood buffer, supposedly reformed druggie and all-around hot mess Tawny Kitaen is shown on a February 2004 Weekly sex issue cover (left); in a booking photo from her April 2002 assault on then husband Chuck Finley in Newport Beach (top right); and writhing in the famous Whitesnake video of 1987. See her latest brush with the law under Saturday, Sept. 26.​It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more Tawny Kitaen arrests

  September 29, 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

• 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. 5 robbery of the US Bank inside the Ralphs supermarket at Adams and Brookhurst streets in Huntington Beach: white, in his 30s, weighing 200 pounds with a stocky build and wearing a blue shirt and jea

  October 21, 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

• Authorities Trumpet Largest Orange County Curfew Sweep

  ​About 300 officers from 20 law enforcement agencies made sweeps through various Orange County communities last night and early today and swooped up 67 kids in violation of city curfew laws, the District Attorney's office announced. Curfews begin at 10 or 11 p.m., depending on the city, and last until 5 a.m. the following day. During those hours, minors can't be out in public unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian, working or taking part in an 

  November 13, 2009