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November 9, 2012
Orange County Serial Bank Bandit Wanted Sentence Reduction For Tanning Salon Robbery
Gabriel Omar Martinez grew up with horrible parents, dropped out of high school, lived on the streets as a teenager and turned to drugs and alcohol.In 2009, a tireless Martinez robbed seven Orange County banks in a three-month period while he was on parole from a tanning salon robbery conviction.Mar ... More >>
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October 15, 2012
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Carjacking Leads to Police Chase, Arrest!
So you know how all the hip kids now say "YOLO"? Turns out there's a Yolo Bypass in Arkansas--and that was the place where a group of idiots were caught after carjacking a car from Taco Bell.
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September 21, 2012
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 >>
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August 28, 2012
Cesar Valle Faces $1 Million Warrant for Failing to Show at Transgender Brothel Robbery Trial
Authorities say first Cesar Valle tried to tax the gents working in a transgender brothel, then the 22-year-old robbed the illegal business operating out of a Santa Ana apartment unit and finally, on Monday, he was a no show as his jury trial was getting going.Superior Court Judge W. Michael Hayes, ... More >>
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February 15, 2012
Santa Ana River Trail Safer for Cyclists With Bike Robbery Busts
You're used to reading (and we're used to writing) about crimes on the mean streets of Santa Ana. Who knew baddies prey on unsuspecting cyclists plying the Santa Ana River Trail? Cyclists know, as does the Santa Ana Police Department, which posted some good news on various bicycling forums recent ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
3 of 10 Most Wanted Robbers Hit OC Banks
In announcing that the 287 Southern California bank robberies in 2011 maintained a downward trend in such crimes--there were 2,600 reported in the same region in 1992--the FBI also listed its 10 most wanted serial robbers of SoCal banks.Three of the 10 who have struck multiple times included Oran ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Tracy Ramon Seward, President David Palmer Lookalike, Admits to Robbing, Hostage Taking
A dead ringer for 24's President David Palmer in a dark suit and tie with a white collared shirt walked into a Lake Forest Payday Loan store around 9 a.m. on June 10, 2009, pulled out a loaded semi-automatic handgun and held it at the head of a 61-year-old customer. He ordered the teller to empty ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Aida Arroyo, Michael Burgin and Adam Weick, Gang Members Who Hit OC Jewelers, Convicted
Three more members of a San Diego street gang have been convicted for their roles in two Orange County jewelry store robberies, with two learning their fate from a jury today and the third having entered a guilty plea mid-trial. Aida Arroyo, 29, faces up to 15 years in state prison after pleading ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Aida Arroyo, Michael Burgin, Adam Weick: Final Defendants in Wild Gang Crime Spree
ArroyoThe beginning of the end of an Orange County crime ring came with the late August 2009 arrest of a man, who was hiding near a shed in Oceanside, for being involved in a Laguna Beach jewelry store robbery. What authorities did not know at the time was he would be tied to another robbery earl ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
[UPDATED with Arrest of Joseph William Kipp:] Who Would Win in a Staring Contest: the "Stare Down Bandit" or the "No Band Bandit"?
UPDATE, OCT. 7, 11:50 A.M.: The FBI has arrested the man they believe to be the "No Band Bandit" shown at right.He is Joseph William Kipp, 52, of Anaheim.Kipp is accused of robbing US Bank branches in Hacienda Heights and Santa Ana, showing a teller a gun in the latter job, according to FBI spoke ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
[UPDATED with 2 Freed:] Steven Rineberg's Taxicab Confession Leads to Bank Robbery Arrest
UPDATE, SEPT. 30, 2:24 P.M.: Man, Danny Bonaduce has really sunken to . . . er, check that. This is Steven Christopher Rineberg, the 53-year-old Mira Loma resident accused of robbing Saigon National Bank in Westminster, boasting about it to a cabbie who ratted him out and then getting arrested in ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
[UPDATED with Arraignment:] Murder Counts for Alleged Would-Be Robber, 2 Lookouts and Getaway Driver in Blown Heist Where Jeweler Killed 2 Baddies
Monaco JewelersUPDATE, SEPT. 9, 3:09 P.M.: Well, we still haven't received our invite to Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens' presumably rescheduled press conference on the murder arrests of four suspects in the June attempted robbery of a San Juan Capistrano jeweler that resulted in would-be ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Robbers Snatch $20,000 Worth of Medical Marijuana
A medical marijuana deliveryman was robbed of $20,000 worth of his meds Tuesday afternoon, Fullerton police say.The unidentified driver, who'd traveled all the way from Oakland, suffered a head cut during the crime but no serious injuries.
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July 12, 2011
[UPDATED with Counts, Perry Farrellesque Mug:] Michael David Marano Charged as "Drifter Bandit"
UPDATE, JULY 12, 4:30 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) announced the charges brought against alleged "Drifter Bandit" and Perry Farrell stand-in Michael David Marano at today's scheduled arraignment in Santa Ana: four felony counts each of second degree robbery and secon ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
[UPDATED] Martin Bravo Cervantes, 2010 OC Homicide No. 17: Robbed, Beaten with Stick in Alley
Courtesy of Santa Ana Police DepartmentRicardo ValdovinosUPDATE, FEB. 16, 11:57 A.M.: A second teen has been arrested in the murder and robbery of a 41-year-old man who was beaten to death with a stick in a Santa Ana alley in the spring of 2010.Ricardo Valdovinos was charged Monday with murder an ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
Hunt Heats Up for the Cooler Bandit
Recognize the guy on the right? The FBI and several Southern California law-enforcement agencies would love ever so much to know who he is, as he has been linked to seven bank robberies in the region since August 2009.His last hit was the Jan. 15 robbery of a U.S. Bank branch in Long Beach. He's ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
[UPDATED] Lior Bitton, LA Jeweler Who Filed False Report of Diamond Theft, Ordered to Pay $99,000
UPDATE, FEB. 4, 4:30 P.M.: Do you spell that name "Lior" or "Liar"?Lior Bitton, who owns a Westminster jewelry store, accepted a plea deal today that had him declaring his guilt to falsely reporting a 4.21 carat diamond had been stolen and fraudulently collecting more than $99,000 from his insura ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Pedestrian Robbed at Knifepoint in Santa Ana Comment by SUPPERROOSTER: CultureComment by VASQUEZ1: What the headline should read is: Pedestrian robbed at knifepoint in Santa Ana and wasn't stabbed. Robbers failed to ask victim where he was from.News at 11!
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December 2, 2010
[UPDATED:] Lior Bitton, LA Jeweler Allegedly Filed False Report of $99,000 Diamond Theft
Update, December 2, 9:20 a.m.: Earlier this year, Westminster police arrested 36-year-old Los Angeles jewelry store owner Lior Bitton, who was accused of fraudulently collecting more than $99,000 from his insurance company after falsely reporting a 4.21 carat diamond stolen. Now, the Orange Cou ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Fake Robbery!
"Man Bites Dog" is the classic, guaranteed news story. "Fake Taco Bell Robbery" should join it in the halls of journalism school as a tale that rises from the churn of dozens of weekly Taco Bell robberies and becomes something rather bizarre.
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July 27, 2010
The Ho-Hum Bandit Strikes Again! (Yawn)
Courtesy of Laguna Beach Police Department The so-called "Ho-Hum Bandit" has had a busy weekend of ripping off Orange County banks. Friday, he robbed a CitiBank branch in Newport Beach after hitting up the same location less than a month earlier. On Saturday, he was right back to work revisiting ... More >>
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May 17, 2010
Lior Bitton, LA Jeweler Accused of Filing False Report of Theft of $99,000 Diamond
Diamond.infoJeweler Lior Bitton should change his name to Liar Bitton, according to Westminster Police.The 36-year-old owner of Los Angeles-based gem wholesaler Pacific Diamonds & Gems was arrested for allegedly inflating the loss he suffered after one of his couriers was robbed in January in ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Anyone Seen These Dickwads?
Courtesy of Buena Park Police DepartmentThe Buena Park Police Department is looking for the chaps above, caught by surveillance cameras before taking part in a brutal robbery of a Mobil mini-mart.
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April 15, 2010
Cynthia Ongamsing-Jenkins, Ex-Rite Aid Supervisor Staged Fake Robberies
Cynthia Ongamsing-Jenkins, 43, of Tustin, was sentenced Wednesday to two years and eight months in state prison for falsely claiming to be the victim of armed robberies of Rite Aid stores in Costa Mesa and Dana Point she supervised.Ongamsing-Jenkins had pleaded guilty Feb. 24 to two felony coun ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
Dennis Edgar Chailland is Robbed, Then Busted for Growing Pot
Dennis ChaillandNot to be confused with the Santa Ana medical marijuana grower who was beaten and robbed before sheriff's deputies confiscated his remaining plants and cultivation equipment on Monday, a Garden Grove pot grower on Wednesday was robbed--and later arrested by responding police offic ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Crime Time: Is Tobias Fünke the "Blue Note Bandit"?
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 >>
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November 24, 2009
Crime Time: Indoor Pot Farming, Bandits on Bikes, Satellite Surveillance Pleas, Teen-on-Teen Stabbings and a Whole Lotta Armed Robberies
It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local crimes and police calls--now with waaaaaay more armed robberies, bike-riding/-taking bandits and indoor pot busts. MONDAY, NOV. 16Wee Hour Party Goes to Pot During a party in a home in the 700 block of Maplewood Avenue in Fullerton, a resident whipp ... More >>
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November 16, 2009
Indictment: Jewelry Store Robberies Lead to Wider Crime Ring
Alonso Jose Lopez, a 31-year-old resident of Vista in San Diego County, got Navel Gazing mentions here and here, but he'd no doubt prefer those over the his latest mention: in an Orange County grand jury indictment unsealed today that identifies him as one of nine San Diego criminal street gang m ... More >>
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November 15, 2009
Taco Bell Crime of the Week!
Finally, something happening in Augusta, Georgia other than discrimination at the Masters:Richmond County authorities are investigating two armed robberies that occurred about the same time Saturday night. In the first, a man with a gun robbed Taco Bell at 3222 Wrightsboro Road about 9:20 p.m., a ... More >>
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November 4, 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 spe ... More >>
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October 13, 2009
Crime Time: An Especially San Clemente/ Huntington Beach Edition
It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--with an especially heavy emphasis on San Clemente and Huntington Beach. MONDAY, OCT. 5 He died for your remote. Who's the Patron Saint of Stupidity Again? A 50-inch Viso plasma TV was stolen out of the beer tent erected for the weekend F ... More >>
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September 22, 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 ... More >>
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August 18, 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 $ ... More >>
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July 7, 2009
Crime Time: Spot This Week's Celebrity Victim!
Hey, juvies, it's our weekly Weekly round-up of Orange County police calls . . .MONDAY, JUNE 29 The pre-vandalized Scott BorasAnyone Fitting the Description of a Major League Baseball Team Owner Spotted Outside Before the Crime? The windows of super-agent Scott Boras' Land Rover were vandalized whil ... More >>
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April 20, 2009
Public's Help Sought in Nabbing the 'Hazmat Bandit'
The Orange County Bank Robbery Task Force is seeking the public's help in identifying an armed bank robber authorities have dubbed the "Hazmat Bandit" due to his attire: a white painter's jumpsuit, a white hat, boots and sunglasses.The unidentified man--described as white, in his fifties, with long ... More >>
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January 22, 2009
Taco Bell Crime of the Week!
You know times are tough when Taco Bell employees fake their own holdup. From Fargo...An employee of a Fargo Taco Bell that was robbed at gunpoint last week has been charged in Cass County District Court with conspiring to rob the store.Michael Vincent Wanzek, 20, made an initial appearance on the f ... More >>
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October 31, 2008
Taco Bell Crime of the Week, Part IV
From Orlando... Police were investigating a Taco Bell robbery that happened Wednesday night and quickly realized that they were dealing with a crime spree. Investigators said three to four armed men robbed a Taco Bell on Narcoosee Road and then attacked two workers before they ran off. When offic ... More >>
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October 15, 2008
Taco Bell Crime of the Week, Part II
From the indomitable Dave Barry: ...a man armed with a knife held up a Taco Bell and got $2,300. The robber wore a ski mask to disguise his identity. This plan would have worked flawlessly, except that, during the robbery, the robber made one teensy mistake: He pulled one of the Taco Bell workers a ... More >>
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January 22, 2008
Wake Up And Suck The Orange 1.22.08
What you get to read this morning: SOBER-LIVING HOME DEBATE: LA Times - Balboa Peninsula's plethora of sober-living homes faces the wrath of the Newport Beach City Council as well as the Concerned Citizens of Newport Beach. One wonders whether these Citizens are related to the Cannery Village Conce ... More >>
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November 3, 2005
The Case of the Dog That Couldn't Sniff Straight
Sloppy police work, callous prosecutors, indifferent judges doom dirt-poor Latino man
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August 23, 2001
Let Lopez Go
DAs office still hasnt interviewed man who says he pulled off robbery for which George Lopez was convicted
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July 26, 2001
Two Down, One to Go
With Carmona and Moore free, George Lopez should be next
News
July 19, 2001
Youre Guilty
Now a free man, Big J-Mo reveals lessons of life inside the OC criminal-justice system
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June 28, 2001
Bad Rap, Vol. III
DA finally admits Big J-Mo was wrongly convicted
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April 12, 2001
DA: Please Call This Guy!
Cops and prosecutors ignore eyewitness testimony that puts Big J-Mo miles from the scene of the crime
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March 22, 2001
99 Percent Certain
Did Fullerton police help a witness identify somebody she never saw?
News
March 15, 2001
Bad Rap
Is Joshua Moore serving a 12-year sentence because of his taste in music?
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September 23, 1999
The Kid Is Innocent
The only question is whether the DA will do anything to free 17-year-old Arthur Carmona
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May 27, 1999
Danas Point
Can a Times columnist save Arthur Carmona?
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