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May 15, 2012
Marbel A. Para Gets Jail, Fine and More for Poaching Lobster from Protected Waters
In the first prosecution since federal Marine Life Protected Areas were established off the California coast, a Riverside County diver was ordered to give up his gear, spend seven days in jail, pay more than $20,000 in fines and promise to stay out of MLPAs for poaching lobster from Laguna Beach wat ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2012
Jaime Robert Galvez, Sheriff's Community Service Officer, Cops to Threats to Jailed Ex-
An Orange County Sheriff's community service officer pleaded guilty today to violating a domestic violence protective order by making negative and threatening comments over the phone to a female inmate with whom he'd had a romantic relationship. Since she was in jail, all the threatening calls wer ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2012
Joshua David Threlkeld, Master Myspace Perv, Sentenced to Life in Prison
Joshua David Threlkeld, the 35-year-old MySpace predator from Orange, will have a lifetime to socially network with other criminals. Threlkeld was sentenced Wednesday in Riverside County Superior Court to 29 years and eight months in prison, followed by 70 years to life after his March 14 convi ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
Western Medical Center Anaheim to Shut Down Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Nurses, Premature Babies Outraged
Integrated Healthcare Holdings Inc. is no stranger to our pages, mostly because of its cutthroat business operations and corrupt management. In November, 2011 a Santa Ana-based law firm sued a majority stakeholder in IHHI, Kali P. Chaudhuri, for engaging in fraud and racketeering on Riverside Cou ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2012
MySpace Perv Joshua David Threlkeld Facing Life Sentence For Luring 40 Girls Into Sending Him Naked Pics
Joshua David Threlkeld, a 34-year-old pervert from Orange, was found guilty Wednesday in Riverside County Superior Court of kidnapping a 13-year-old Moreno Valley girl for sex and getting 40 girls to send him naked pictures of themselves. Threlkeld is scheduled to be sentenced April 11 ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Perry Anthony Pellegrini, Dirty Photographer, Poses for Ugly Police Mugshot of the Week
Perry Anthony Pellegrini lives in Lake Elsinore, where he has a photography shop on Riverside Drive. But he also has a studio in Huntington Beach. Guess those who can't pose, shoot. Seriously, is one of dude's eyes lower than the other?The 50-year-old found himself on the opposite end of the lens ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Reps. Gary Miller and Ken Calvert Get Their Assets Handed Back to Them
The Washington Post compared the annual financial disclosure reports filed by every member of Congress over the past decade to various public records and discovered that nearly 50 senators and House representatives directed millions of dollars in earmarks to projects that could either enhance ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Marbel A. Para Popped for Poaching 42 Spiny Lobsters from Marine Sanctuary
A Riverside County man was cited Sunday for allegedly poaching 47 California spiny lobsters from Laguna Beach waters within Southern California's new marine sanctuary zone that went into effect Jan. 1.State Department of Fish and Game warden popped Marbel A. Para, 30, of Romoland, off Heisler Pa ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2011
Supreme Court Upholds 5 Punishments For 1 Crime
Even if you don't watch Perry Mason re-runs, you've probably heard of the legal notion that you shouldn't be repeatedly punished for committing one crime.I'm not sure if Amir A. Ahmed of Riverside County knew of the notion.But this month the California Supreme Court ruled that it doesn't apply to ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2011
Alexa Johzen Polar and Robin Antonella Pabello Accused of Stealing $285k for Lavish NYC Trip
PabelloTwo Garden Grove roommates are accused of stealing a check from a Newport Beach law firm and changing the value to more than $285,000 that they spent on a lavish trip to New York that included private jet travel, multiple hotel rooms, and a shopping spree at Tiffany & Co. and Montbla ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2011
Big Brother is Watching You ... Shop
At least this can be said of the decision by operators of The Promenade at Temecula to track Black Friday shoppers via their mobile phones:At least they aren't using the technology only to track black people.Back in the day--but not anymore, right guys--African Americans were closely monitored at ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
[UPDATED with No Attempted Murder Charge:] Marcos Gonzalez Caught After Allegedly Using Car to Run Over Motorcycle Cop
UPDATE, NOV. 7, 2:15 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) announced today it is charging Marcos Gonzalez with one felony count of assault of a police officer with sentencing enhancements for causing great bodily injury and having a prior conviction for possession for ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Dr. Kali P. Chaudhuri, Medical Tycoon, Sued By OC Firm For Using Doctors As Personal ATM Machines
Bob AulJust when you thought the U.S. health care system couldn't get any more screwed up, a lawsuit filed this week by the Santa Ana-based law firm Callahan & Blaine accuses a local medical tycoon with a controversial past and four Orange County hospitals to his name of wreaking havoc on hos ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Andrew Urdiales, Camp Pendleton Serial Killer, and Pasqual Raul Loera, Accused Double-Murderer of Westminster Couple, Both Face the Death Penalty
Andre UrdialesThe Orange County District Attorney's office announced today it will seek the death penalty for two men: Navy deserter Pasqual Raul Loera, who allegedly slayed a Westminster couple under the pretense of buying their car on Valentine's Day 2010, and Camp Pendleton serial killer Andre ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Jeffrey Thomas Sackman, Facebook Rape Suspect, Hands Down Ugliest Police Mugshot of the Week
Jeffrey Thomas Sackman, 44, of Cathedral City, is accused of posing as a 17-year-old Italian boy on MySpace, mbuzzy and Facebook. You can imagine the visions of " Giovanni Antonio Corsentino" in the head of a 15-year-old Buena Park girl who unwittingly met Sackman on social networking sites two ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
As Ducks Die in OC, Are Gnatcatchers Next?
Small but deadly to land developers.Readers of the Weekly before there was a Weekly may recall the California gnatcatcher, a cute little bird who managed to stop development in its tracks in Orange County in the early 1990s, cause Donald Bren to forever be saddled with a menacing Mr. Burns squint ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
AEG Wants to Build an NFL Stadium in Downtown LA (What Traffic?), OC Supervisors Want City of Industry
AEGA stadium will be built ... somewhere in LA County.An NFL stadium is coming to the greater Los Angeles area, at some point. The sponsorship deal with Farmers Insurance has been sealed, the promotional propaganda has been spread, the LA city council has voted unanimously in favor of a tentative ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Stupid Pet Trick of the Week: Wally the Watchgator?
There's no Orange County angle here, but this story is simply too 909, er funny, not to pass along. On Monday, a Riverside County drug task force raided a suspected pot farm in Hemet. No, the fact they actually have time to do go after marijuana cases with all the meth labs out there isn't the we ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
Orange County Is Top Gun in Crime Guns Traced Here on Per Capita Basis
When it comes to the total number of guns used in crimes, more can be traced to Los Angeles County than any other in Southern California, but on a per capita basis, Orange County is tops.That's the conclusion of data released by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and rep ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2010
Marwan Abdellatif, Douglas Nissan Manager, is Fugitive in Elaborate Customer Fraud Case
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 >>
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October 22, 2010
[UPDATED:] Lucas Ransom, 19, Killed by Shark off Santa Barbara Coast
UPDATE AND CORRECTION: Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown originally identified the victim of this morning's shark attack at Surf Beach as a 20-year-old Cal State Santa Barbara student who hailed from Orange County. The victim has since been identified as chemical engineering major Lucas Ran ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Orange County Reserve Firefighter Program Blasted by Riverside County Volunteer Firemen
Eliminating volunteer firefighter positions and replacing them with a reserve program would prove disastrous to Riverside County's already battered budget, claims a group formed to save the volunteers.All anyone need do to see proof of this, they say, is to look down the road to Orange County.
News
August 26, 2010
Forever Scared
Herman Atkins is still trying to pick up the pieces 10 years after he was freed from imprisonment on phoney rape charges
Blogs
August 2, 2010
Dishonest Mailman Tries Lame Excuse
It's from Aunt Edna!Have you ever wondered about missing mail--say a birthday card from your favorite, wealthy aunt in Texas?Let's hope that Southern California postal delivery man Henry Lee Monday didn't serve your neighborhood.Monday liked to open mail containing cash, pocket the dough and tras ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
Blowing Holes Through the "Big Dug Tunnel"
An 11.2-mile "Big Dug Tunnel" through Cleveland National Forest was the apparent last standing solution to clogged rush hour (and several other hours') traffic between Orange and Riverside counties.But that has now been thoroughly pooh-poohed by local politicians, and a joint transportation comm ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2010
Stephen Kadlec Popped for Being '07 Wedding Crasher Who Stole Gift Box With $1,800 Inside
He doesn't have the distorted nose of Owen Wilson, the infectious smarm of Vince Vaughn or the $209,255,921 domestic total gross of their 2005 mega-hit Wedding Crashers, but Stephen Kadlec did manage to slip in uninvited to a Garden Grove wedding reception in 2007 and, according to police, walk a ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
Francisco the Man
The Prospector
Blogs
March 30, 2010
OC is a Killer County
Have a seat; this could take a while.Serial killer Rodney Alcala received the death sentence for the third time in as many decades today. Could sentence number three mean he'll be mainlining the state's death-cocktail sometime soon? Hardly.
Blogs
January 14, 2010
Dueling Dishes: Temecula Sunrise Edition
Living in California and drinking locally, alcohol-wise, is by no means difficult. From the world-famous wine regions in Northern California to the craft beer Mecca of San Diego County and a few other noteworthy sources of wine, beer and booze (SF's Anchor Distilling makes thoroughly interesting and ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2009
Riverside County Corruption Probe That Snagged Mission Viejo Developer Widens
A government corruption and money laundering case that includes among more than a dozen defendants a former vice president of operations with three of Orange County's biggest development companies--the Mission Viejo Co., the Irvine Co. and Arnel Development--is growing like the waist ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2009
Eat Local, Recycle Your Food Waste Miles and Miles Away
Not to be outdone by their North County counterparts, who recycle sewage into drinking water through the revolutionary Groundwater Replenishment System, South County communities are banding together to turn food waste into compost.While the regional pilot program sounds meritorious, one thing abo ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2009
Five Great Places to Eat While Biking the Santa Ana River Trail
Dave LiebermanOrange County is a surprisingly bike-friendly place, and the crown jewel of north OC has to be the Santa Ana River Trail, which goes from the ocean at the Huntington Beach/Newport Beach border to Prado Dam in Corona, completely separated from cars. (It will eventually, when Riversid ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2009
TV Reporter Wrangles "Cannabis Cowboys" Tonight
John Larson accompanied Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (C.A.M.P.) strike forces as they descended on illegal marijuana farms in Riverside County--and damn if he didn't have a camera crew along with him. See, Larson is a correspondent with the KCET/Channel 28 prog ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2009
Citizen of the Week!
Ian Robert Tedeschi groomed himself as a Southern California bad boy with blond hair, blue eyes and a surgically placed silver ball in the shaft of his penis. The 5-foot-10, 200-pounder bragged that he loved "really big boobs" and belonged to the Orange County Skinheads gang. Before he was halfwa ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2009
Just Another Orange County Weekend, Part II
Photo by Ted SoquiThe view from last November.The view from the quiet backyard multi-million dollar home high in the hills of Yorba Linda was gorgeous Saturday night. The lights of Orange County's flats twinkled below. Headlights snaked along the 91 freeway. You could barely make out ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2009
It's a Quick Read 23
Orange County Register: Not only did your sales tax rise today, but the federal tobacco tax more than doubled. . . . Orange County health clinics for low-income residents will receive federal stimulus dollars. . . . Former Garden Grove police chief Frank Kessler, 76, pleaded guil ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2007
Let's Play Where Are They Now: Haidl Gang Rapists
Last year, an Orange County jury convicted three young men for the 2002 videotaped rape and molestation of an unconscious 16-year-old girl on a pool table in a Newport Beach garage. The case made national headlines not just because the drunk men laughed as they repeatedly shoved a Snapple bottle, ap ... More >>
Columns
November 23, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
Nov. 15 - Nov. 21
Blogs
June 1, 2006
Sic Transit...
It seem there might be a princess– princess in the sense of being the child of a European royal– somewhere in the Inland Empire. Albert Grimaldi, the ruling prince of Monaco (and one of the least inbred of Europe's royal relics, thanks to the genetic material of Grace Kelly), is reported ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2006
An Injury to One...
Pat Brennan (no relation) reports in the Register that fire ants are resurgent in OC. As someone who grew up in South Louisiana, where the ants have freely roamed since Truman was in the White House, allow me to explain what this means to you: it means you're fucked. It means pain. It means little p ... More >>
Web
October 27, 2005
A Clockwork Orange
Pat Brennan (no relation) reports in the Register that fire ants are resurgent in OC. As someone who grew up in South Louisiana, where the ants have freely roamed since Truman was in the White House, allow me to explain what this means to you: it means you're fucked. It means pain. It means little p ... More >>
Columns
September 22, 2005
a Clockwork Orange
Pat Brennan (no relation) reports in the Register that fire ants are resurgent in OC. As someone who grew up in South Louisiana, where the ants have freely roamed since Truman was in the White House, allow me to explain what this means to you: it means you're fucked. It means pain. It means little p ... More >>
Columns
February 19, 2004
Letters
Pat Brennan (no relation) reports in the Register that fire ants are resurgent in OC. As someone who grew up in South Louisiana, where the ants have freely roamed since Truman was in the White House, allow me to explain what this means to you: it means you're fucked. It means pain. It means little p ... More >>
News
March 13, 2003
Rave Nation Invasion
Promoters say Riverside cops put them out of business
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October 24, 2002
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October 3, 2002
A Geezer for Weezer!
Promoters say Riverside cops put them out of business
Features
May 30, 2002
No Escape
A night of illegal camping
Columns
May 16, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
A night of illegal camping
Columns
January 31, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
A night of illegal camping
Music
March 22, 2001
Strangers With Cande
How sweet rave promoters B3Cande are
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