Richard Toohey

William David Robin, Alleged Fraudster, Has Judge Kill Case and Prosecutor File New Counts

There William David Robin was, being tried in Orange County Superior Court this week for allegedly masterminding an $8 million real estate fraud scheme that caused 16 victims to lose their homes, when the judged threw out the grand theft and conspiracy charges against the 56-year-old Coto de Caza ma ... More >>

Andrew Thomas Gallo, Drunk Driver Convicted of Killing Angels Phenom Nick Adenhart and 2 Others, Gets No State Supreme Court Relief

It's another swing and a miss for Andrew Thomas Gallo as the California Supreme Court denied the San Gabriel man's pitch for a review of his conviction on triple-homicide, drunken-driving and hit-and-run charges for the 2009 Fullerton crash that took the life of rising Anaheim Angels star Nick Adenh ... More >>

Dirk John Thomas, Orange County's First Three Strikes Inmate, Ordered Freed

Orange County's first three-strikes defendant was kicked loose Friday. Over the "vigorous" objections of the Orange County District Attorney's office, Superior Court Judge Richard Toohey re-sentenced convicted thief Dirk John Thomas to six years in state prison for his third strike, but since the 51 ... More >>

Andrew Thomas Gallo Conviction Upheld in DUI Deaths of Angel Nick Adenhart, 2 Others

The 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana has upheld the conviction and sentence of Andrew Thomas Gallo, the San Gabriel drunken driver who was sent to prison for 51 years to life for causing the crash that took the lives of Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others.A panel of three jus ... More >>

Antonio Cinco Ortega Convicted of Attemped Murder in Love Triangle Machete Attack

A butcher was convicted today of trying to hack up a Fountain Valley man not with a butcher's knife but a machete.Antonio Cinco Ortega, 23, of Santa Ana, is now looking at the possibility of 29 years to life in state prison for his role in an alleged murder plot authorities claim was hatched by the ... More >>

Linda Ann Wilborn Guilty of Killing Her Baby and Bashing in Head of Baby's Twin

Linda Ann Wilborn, a 34-year-old Army wife who matter-of-factly talked with her husband about God chatting them up as police  investigated the death of their baby girl and serious wounding of her twin brother, was convicted today of murder, assault and child abuse charges.A mistrial was declare ... More >>

Anaheim Gangsters Violated Rule 1 For Dummies During Violent Carjacking, Robbery

Two idiot, gun-toting Anaheim hoodlums with the Jeffrey Street criminal street gang carjacked a poor, working class family in February 2009 and then kidnapped them back to their home where they stole laundry quarters, computers, jewelry and $100 in cash from a wallet.Proving his brilliance, Humberto ... More >>

California Judges Squelch Piano Store Manager's $6.8 Million Thief Lyrics

Russell Eugene Dunbar must have loved working as office manager and controller at Fields Pianos in Santa Ana.In addition to his salary, Dunbar concocted a scheme to steal a whopping $6.8 million in company revenues during a three-year period that ended in 2005, according to court records.After his d ... More >>

Jimmy Tlamasico, 20 y.o. Santa Ana Gang Banger, Guilty of OC's 20th Murder of 2010

Twenty-year-old Jimmy Tlamasico, who I wouldn't card based on his booking photo at right, is looking at a lifetime in state prison without parole after a jury recently convicted him of committing Orange County's--you guessed it--20th murder of 2010.Tiamasico shot to death Jose Felix Nieto-Bautista, ... More >>

OC Killer Capured After America's Most Wanted Broadcast Says He is Innocent

An Orange County killer captured in Arizona after featured on America's Most Wanted and convicted of a brutal murder has been begging officials to reopen his case.Cuong Viet Nguyen, 31, maintains that he killed Tri Bui in self defense following a ridiculously stupid 2005 spat outside the All Star Ca ... More >>

Linda Ann Wilborn Has Mistrial Declared in Case Alleging She Murdered Her Daughter

An Orange County Superior Court judge declared a mistrial today in the murder case against Seal Beach Army wife Linda Ann Wilborn, who is accused of killing her 23-month-old daughter Millicent in December 2009.Judge Richard Toohey granted the mistrial at the request of Wilborn's defense attorney, wh ... More >>

Newport Beach Home Schooler Used Young Girl as Sex Slave

To commit his serial sex crimes against a little girl, David Alan Goddard arranged the perfect setting in Newport Beach.While his wife worked long hours as a nurse, Goddard worked at home as a stock broker and insisted on home schooling "T.B," the 12-year-old girl adopted by his mother in law. Schoo ... More >>

Garden Grove Love Triangle Killer Wants New Trial

A lawyer for a Garden Grove man who murdered his wife's ex-boyfriend in March 2008, asked a panel of California appellate justices this week to overturn the conviction because the crime wasn't a premeditated killing but rather self-defense.After the work of prosecutor Larry Yellin, an Orange County ... More >>

Ethan Rosenfeld: Court Rejects OCDA's First Degree Murder Conviction

​There's no doubt that alcoholic Ethan Emanuel Rosenfeld murdered his elderly mother in Leisure World, but two powerful legal entities don't agree on the strength of the district attorney's case.On May 30, 2005, Orange County paramedics found 82-year-old Helen Rosenfeld wrapped in bed "like a burr ... More >>

Ricardo Dagoberto Diaz-Nivarez, Facing Same Murder Charges as His Convicted Mother, Sees Jury Deadlock

​Ricardo Dagoberto Diaz-Nivarez's mother was sentenced in the spring to 25 years to life in state prison for plotting with her son the 2005 robbery and murder of Mario Hernandez, a 78-year-old Santa Ana jewelry salesman whose body was never found.Today, a jury deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convictin ... More >>

Burglar's Target: Granny's Panties

Barton: Soiled again​On Feb. 12, 2008, convicted rapist Steven William Barton sat in his pickup truck and couldn't restrain himself from going into a 66-year-old Huntington Beach woman's residence with the intent to commit a bizarre crime. Barton, who started a car-wash business after he left pris ... More >>

[UPDATED with Mistrial:] Mary Katheryn Sharpski, Her Lover and His Butcher Friend Tried for Machete Attack on Her Husband

The wife​UPDATE, JUNE 2, 10:06 A.M.: The murder trial of the wife and lover accused of getting a butcher to kill her husband with a machete--which, ironically, is the name of the new John Grisham novel--has ended in mistrial.After deliberating for two days, the four-man, eight-woman jury informed ... More >>

[UPDATE] Jeffrey David Kirby Gets 9 Years for Killing TapouT Co-Founder Charles "Mask" David Lewis, Jr.

Jeffrey Kirby​UPDATE, FEB. 4, 1:09 P.M.: Second-time drunken driver Jeffrey David Kirby, 53, of Costa Mesa, was sentenced today to nine years in state prison for causing the crash that killed Charles "Mask" David Lewis, Jr., the co-founder of the Huntington Beach-based mixed-martial arts clothin ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Andrew Thomas Gallo Gets 51 Years to Life for Murder of Angels Pitcher Nick Adenhart and 2 Others

Gallo​Update, December 22,12:12 p.m.: From the Associated Press:Before sentencing. [Courtney] Stewart's sobbing father, Chris Stewart, told the judge each day that goes by "is one more day I'm without my daughter."[Andrew Thomas] Gallo was frequently moved to tears by the statements from family ... More >>

[UPDATE:] Jeffrey David Kirby Convicted of Killing TapouT Co-Founder Charles "Mask" David Lewis, Jr.

Jeffrey Kirby​Update, December 10, 1:39 p.m.: Earlier this week, second-time drunken driver Jeffrey David Kirby, 53, of Costa Mesa was convicted of killing Charles "Mask" David Lewis, Jr., the co-founder of the Huntington Beach-based mixed-martial arts clothing company TapouT. You've read that Le ... More >>

Jury Selection Starts in Trial of Accused Killer of Charles Lewis Jr., "Mask" of TapouT Fame

​Jury selection is scheduled to begin this morning in Judge Richard F. Toohey's Santa Ana courtroom in the vehicular manslaughter case against the driver of a 1977 Porsche that crashed with a red Ferrari shortly before 1 a.m. on March 11, 2009, on Jamboree Road in Newport Beach.The high-performan ... More >>

We Found the Most Expensive Cutlass Supreme in the Nation

Chhoun: I paid too much!​You might imagine that hardcore members of Southern California's criminal street gangs would want to pay the lowest price possible for a car--or even steal it for nothing.But in February 2008, Rick Chhoun--a resident of Long Beach and an admitted 19-year-old member of the ... More >>

Andrew Thomas Gallo Can't Get Fair Trial in Angels Country, Claims His Lawyer

Faces of Andrew Thomas Gallo​The attorney for Andrew Thomas Gallo, the 23-year-old San Gabriel resident facing second-degree murder and other charges in the crash that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others, has filed a motion to move the trial out of Orange County.

Christina Marie Munoz Gets 16 Years to Life for Murdering Her 84-year-old Great-Grandma

​Killing your mom is bad, your grandmother is worse and your great-grandmother . . . jeez, are you sick or something? Christina Marie Munoz, 29, of Garden Grove, was sentenced today to 16 years to life in state prison for murdering her great-grandmother by stabbing the 84-year-old five times in t ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Police Pilots Say They Got the Pointer

Citizen of the Week!

While Angela May King liked to make people laugh, Edgar Omar Osorio loved to hurt people, and one night, less than 10 minutes from the Happiest Place on Earth, these two came face to face. It hadn't been a mutually agreed-upon meeting. Looking for guns and money and to enhance his reputation in the ... More >>

The Mind of a Pedophile

Two convicted child molesters get another stiff sentence for a crime they thought about committing

'You Are Just a Nasty Pedophile'

Former youth-sports coach faces victims’ families at sentencing

Dudes Gone Wild

Three odd tales from Orange Countys domestic-violence files

Badfella

Buddhist temple role model led double life as a gangster

Silk Stalkings

Woman imprisoned for terrorizing ex-lovers and threatening their girlfriends is now free

Baby-faced Hoodlums

Getting big in Vietnamese gangs doesnt mean you cant snitch