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As told to Alison M. Rosen
As told to Alison M. Rosen
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 qui ... More >>
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 ... More >>
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 ... More >>
Advocate for the disabled Charles Monson was also a medical-marijuana patient—until late last month
Advocate for the disabled Charles Monson was also a medical-marijuana patient—until late last month
Advocate for the disabled Charles Monson was also a medical-marijuana patient—until late last month
Advocate for the disabled Charles Monson was also a medical-marijuana patient—until late last month
Even as Edison was claiming it was nearly bankrupt, it paid the new Peace Corps chief more than $300,000 in bonuses
A film by Jim Washburn
A film by Jim Washburn
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 violati ... More >>
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 b ... More >>
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 b ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 incompeten ... More >>
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 incompeten ... More >>
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 wr ... More >>
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 ... More >>
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 >>
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 o ... More >>
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 >>
Left photo courtesy of E! Entertainment; right photo courtesy of Orange Police DepartmentRyan Seacrest was allegedly stalked in Orange and Burbank by Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr.A 25-year-old Lakewood resident, who previously pleaded guilty in an Orange County courtroom to assault and weapons charge ... More >>
Courtesy of Orange Police DepartmentFugitive Ernesto Parraguirre turned himself in today. A 20-year-old Anaheim man turned himself in today to Orange Police seeking him for allegedly sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl and threatening to kill her 15-year-old sister. Ernesto Parraguirre, who is ... More >>
Flickr user Yogma, Creative CommongsAfter-school activity?A secretary at Orange High School was put on administrative leave in May for allegedly fraternizing with students, according to police records. And by "fraternizing," we're talking parties, drinking games, a camping trip and a rumored ... More >>
UPDATE: Booking photo of and more information on the suspect (see end of post) . . . And you thought the Mad Men were degrading to female office workers.A mortgage company employee was arrested today for allegedly jerking off into a female co-worker's water bottle, sickening her.Twice!Four months ... More >>
Michael Kevin Lallana, the USC graduate, mortgage company employee and Fullerton family man, has pleaded not guilty to placing his man juice into the water bottle of a female co-worker on at least two separate occasions.The 31-year-old, who has a wife and young daughter, entered the plea Tuesday ... More >>
Authorities are looking for other young victims of Nicholas James Needham, a 27-year-old registered sex offender who used to reside in Laguna Beach but most recently was living, working and--according to authorities--molesting in Orange, where he allegedly reached over a public restroom urinal to ... More >>
Tony Rackauckas is at the center of a lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles this afternoon against the Orange County District Attorney's enforcement of gang injunctions. The formal name of the case is American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU) v. Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) Tony Rackauc ... More >>
The Orange County District Attorney's Office is reaching out to the public in its search for the former Douglas Nissan desk manager, who is accused of stealing the identities of unsuspecting customers and defrauding banks in the sale of used cars at the Orange dealership.A $2 million arrest warr ... More >>
Update, November 24, 7 p.m.: Former El Modena High School band teacher Carlie Rose Attebury, 31, of Orange, was convicted today of four felony county of having sex with an underage male student.She could get up to five years in state prison at her Jan. 7 sentencing, according to prosecutors. ... More >>
Update, November 19, 12:35 p.m.: Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has issued a statement about the charges filed against two men Thursday for the murder of Sgt. Ira Gabor Essoe, Jr. in 1980."The criminal justice system will not let the passage of time protect the men who brutally shot and ki ... More >>
It was a most brazen crime: Around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 7, two men wearing white Hazmat-type get-ups walked into Haven Gastropub in Old Towne Orange, placed the ATM unit on a dolly and wheeled it out.By the time employees realized what had happened--that the joint had been robbed in plain s ... More >>
UPDATE, MARCH 4, 2:52 P.M.: Former El Modena High School band teacher Carlie Rose Attebury was sentenced today to 16 months in prison for having sex with a then-15-year-old boy who was her drum major.The 31-year-old Orange resident must also register as a sex offender for life.She was also ... More >>
Heads or tails as to what's uglier: Francisco Ayala Jr.'s police mugshot or the crime the 27-year-old Anaheim resident faces arraignment for this morning.The emergency room patient care technician is accused of raping, sodomizing and engaging in oral copulation with an intoxicated woman who was ... More >>
Five people were arrested this morning in what the Orange County district attorney's office (OCDA) hails as its first case against the parents of children who have been chronically truant despite repeated warnings from cops and schools. The parents--who face probation, jail and/or fines if convi ... More >>
A federal judge ruled today that the Orange County District Attorney and Orange Police Department violated due process rights by denying hearings to those the agencies suspected of being gang members, dealing what the American Civil Liberties Union called "a major victory" to those legally oppo ... More >>
What truant?UPDATE, JUNE 21, 4:02 P.M.: Last month, the Orange County district attorney's office announced the first OCDA case against parents of children who have been chronically truant, despite repeated warnings from schools and police.Yesterday, charges against one of those parents disappear ... More >>
The saga has trudged on for more than two years now, but Yvonne Elizondo still speaks about the Orange Varrio Cypress' gang injunction with freshness and fervor.A tinge of redness takes to her cheeks as she recalls the day it all started: February 23, 2009. That's the day that ... More >>
Big Brother is not only watching you, he can answer in the affirmative, "Can you hear me now?" The American Civil Liberties Union would like to know how much he's listenening, and by "he," I mean "your local cop shop."The Communist Par . . . er, ACLU of California announced today that demands wer ... More >>
Gary Haynes, 52, of Oceanside, and another man got into a confrontation with a couple in a North Manzanita Storage unit on North Manzanita Street near West Katella Avenue in Orange Saturday night. Haynes was punched and thrown off a loft in the storage locker, where he was left overnight in hi ... More >>
If someone was trying to send a message to the Orange County Labor Federation, they certainly caught everyone's attention. A noose was found dangling from the roof of the federations' offices in Orange this morning, according to numerous reports.As of this afternoon, there were no leads on who or ... More >>
A registered sex offender pleaded guilty to molesting a then-5-year-old boy who was using a urinal at the Block of Orange in June 2010 while his mother waited outside the restroom. Nicholas James Needham, who'd recently moved to Orange from Laguna Beach at the time of his arrest, copped to one fe ... More >>
Moxley is doing...something...so I'll step up to the plate and use his Orange County Sheriff's Department bat to smash Sandra Hutchens' crew anew. After all, this one writes itself!On Sept. 30, sheriff's deputy Mario Manuel Castro had a few too many at a Costa Mesa bar while off-duty--like, three ... More >>
Marwan Abdellatif, a former Douglas Nissan desk manager accused of stealing the identities of unsuspecting customers and defrauding banks in the sale of used cars, remains a fugitive from justice. But his whereabouts being unknown did not stop the Orange dealership's part owner and two other de ... More >>
Suicide by train? That's the assumption of the Orange Police Department when it comes to the woman who was struck and killed by a Metrolink train this morning.
Courtesy of Santiago Creek Greenway AllianceClick for a larger image.See that map? It represents the new Santiago Creek Trail, which runs from the Orange County Water District Ponds near Cannon St. in Orange, all the way to the Santa Ana River--with one quarter-mile exception through Jack Fisher ... More >>
UPDATE, FEB. 3, 4:17 P.M.: Superior Court Commissioner Vickie Hix today ordered a third evaluation of Sonia Hermosillo to determine if the mother accused of tossing her 7-month-old son off a parking structure to his death is mentally competent to stand trial for murder. Two psychologists reached ... More >>
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