The Orange County Sheriff's Department and District Attorney's office sent out press releases and OCDA Chief of Staff Susan Schroeder appeared in front of television news cameras Saturday with the stunning revelation a former Mission Viejo attorney had been arrested and charged with strangling his e ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
Jesse ShockeyUPDATE, JAN. 5, 4:50 P.M.: Police and prosecutors have not officially divulged what Jesse Shockey and Dylan James Austin were arguing about before 16-year-old Shockey allegedly stabbed 19-year-old Austin to death last month.But Flickr has.
UPDATE, DEC. 27, 3:25 P.M.: An Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) statement on the charges against the suspected murderer of Huntington Beach's Dylan James Austin, 19, identifies him as Jesse Shockey, 16, of Garden Grove.The OCDA also reveals Shockey will be tried as an adult on one ... More >>
UPDATE, NOV. 29, 12:30 P.M.: During today's arraignment hearing, where Scott Evans Dekraai pleaded not guilty to murdering eight people and critically injuring a ninth, Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders objected to press photographers being in the courtroom, saying this kind of media coverage ... More >>
UPDATE, OCT. 27, 2:43 P.M.: 24-year-old Eder Giovanni Herrera stabbed his mother to death on the kitchen floor of their Yorba Linda home Tuesday night before turning his blade on his older brother, who was stabbed to death in the hallway, according to prosecutors.Herrera is scheduled to be arraig ... More >>
UPDATE, OCT. 24, 3:05 P.M.: Orange County Superior Court Judge Erick L. Larsh this afternoon assigned the defense of Scott Evans Dekraai to the Orange County Public Defender's office. The lead attorney (at taxpayers' dime) will now be senior Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders. Dekraai's origin ... More >>
UPDATE, AUG. 8, 12:10 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) just confirmed that Kirk Michael Galvin has been charged with murdering his 58-year-old uncle, Douglas Brian Galvin of Buena Park, in the La Palma apartment of the 23-year-old's father (and the victim's brother). Kirk ... More >>
UPDATE, JULY 7, 5:01 P.M.: Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals ruled Wednesday that Akeem Jelani Johnson must stand trial for allegedly raping a drunken Australian tourist outside Godfather's Bar in Tustin that day after Thanksgiving 2010.However, Goethals dismissed charges against ... More >>
Tombleson?UPDATE, JUNE 29, 2:42 P.M.: 28-yearold Justin Alvin Masao Tombleson pleaded not guilty this week to the murders-by-stabbing of Santa Margarita Catholic High School ice hockey conditioning coach Elvis Kechechian and his friend Hossein Saidoian.Tombleson is due back in court July 15, but ... More >>
Hossein SaidoianUPDATE, JUNE 23, 12:39 P.M.: Sheriff's officials indicated they would seek a second murder complaint against Justin Alvin Masao Tomblesongiven the June 16 death of Hossein Saidoian, and prosecutors confirmed this morning that those charges were filed. Tombleson, 28, of Lake Forest ... More >>
UPDATE, FEB. 9, 8:50 A.M.: Creeper Herath Permarathne entered a guilty plea yesterday to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl while both were on a bus. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail, three years probation and mandatory sex-offender registration.But the Orange County district attorney's ... More >>
Update, Jan. 18, 7:48 a.m.: A taxicab driver is scheduled to be arraigned in Westminster this morning for the alleged rape of a woman he is accused of knocking unconscious.Meanwhile, the Orange County district attorney's office (OCDA) has reached out to the public to see if there are other victim ... More >>
Update, January 10, 5:23 p.m.: The Orange County District Attorney's Office has released to the media surveillance photos taken from Godfather's bar in Tustin early Nov. 26 of a man who is believed to have participated in helping facilitate a woman's rape.On the following page, you'll see larger ... More >>
Orlando Bruce Bosley, 57, got a call for a cab request in Sunset Beach and showed up to pick up the intoxicated woman, just as a good cab driver is supposed to do. He transported the woman to her mother's Seal Beach home, where she was staying while mom was gone. The OC district attorney's r ... More >>
County prosecutors and Orange County Sheriff's Department investigators have tied Omar Alirio Guzman to three molestations of little girls, but there are fears the 43-year-old Mission Viejo housecleaner preyed on other young victims as well.He is scheduled to be arraigned this morning at the Cent ... More >>
It must be disconcerting to roll through a shopping mall parking structure, notice something screwy going on in a parked truck, knock on the window and discover a 54-year-old man with his pants around his ankles and a 14-year-old boy he met on Craigslist inside. That happened to a Huntington Beac ... More >>
Publicity in the Orange County Register about the boy-sex charges against Luis Alberto Pineda have led to more counts against the 29-year-old soccer coach and martial arts instructor.Pineda, 29, was arrested Aug. 5 on suspicion of molesting five boys. Two more youths have been added to the case, ... More >>
Law enforcement is asking people to come forward if they have information on a 29-year-old Anaheim resident who taught martial arts and coached youth soccer in Fullerton.Luis Alberto Pineda is facing multiple child molestation charges in the sexual assaults of two young boys he met while coaching ... 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 >>
Courtesy of Orange County District Attorney's officeMax Danilo Martinez is accused of rapes nine years apart.In announcing the charges against a Corona man who is being arraigned in Santa Ana this morning for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl and 24-year-old woman, the Orange County District At ... 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 >>
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 >>
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