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March 28, 2006
Fun with Brackets, Mexican Style!
The following message was left on a Weekling answering machine. But as you read this, keep in mind that a more competent and diligent and unbigoted school administrator than Frances Claire you'll never know. We just could not resist the urge to mischievously insert phrases in [BRACKETS] throughout h ... More >>
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March 15, 2001
Welcome to Orange County, Now Go Home
Cops say they want to bail on INS duty
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November 1, 2001
Anthrax Schmanthrax
Cops say they want to bail on INS duty
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October 5, 2006
O Solo Meow
Be careful if youre a cat in Santa Ana and get stuck in a tree
Columns
April 13, 2006
Letters
'A long and sordid history of trampling over civil liberties'
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November 6, 2003
The Thin Boo Line!
Orange Countys 31 scariest cops!
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July 26, 2001
Oops! They Did It Again
Mass slaughter reveals a litany of problems at OCs least-loved pound
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January 7, 1999
October-December
Mass slaughter reveals a litany of problems at OCs least-loved pound
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August 12, 2009
Santa Ana Police to be Honored by a Biden
TheWhiteHouse.govDr. Jill Biden is scheduled to honor the Santa Ana Police Department and 14 other employers.Santa Ana Police Department honorees will be praised in Washington, D.C., by a Biden.But it won't be Joe Biden.It'll be the vice president's wife, Dr. Jill Biden, who will do the honors, t ... More >>
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July 14, 2009
Crime Time: Methed Mom, Nitrous Oxide, a Full Moon, a Gutted Black Cat and a Skateboarding Giant Ax Carrier
It's our weekly Weekly roundup of Orange County police calls--with suspect mugs!TUESDAY, JULY 7Courtesy of Cypress Police DepartmentAlison Le Anne EbertAt Least She Left the TV On Officers responding to an anonymous, 4:45 a.m. report of child abuse in a home in the 8500 block of La Homa Street in Cy ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
Forty Years Later, the Clash Between the Black Panthers and Santa Ana P.D. Still Influences OC Life
It's our weekly Weekly roundup of Orange County police calls--with suspect mugs!TUESDAY, JULY 7Courtesy of Cypress Police DepartmentAlison Le Anne EbertAt Least She Left the TV On Officers responding to an anonymous, 4:45 a.m. report of child abuse in a home in the 8500 block of La Homa Street in Cy ... 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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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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January 19, 2010
DA Objects to Gang-Assault Sentences
The Orange County District Attorney's office objected today to a judge striking the "strikes" for a third-striker gang member who was on parole when he and two other men assaulted a fourth man who told the trio to stop tagging a wall in Santa Ana with graffiti last summer.At least the judge was c ... More >>
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February 19, 2010
Here's a Real Sharp Exchange Between Father and Son
Santa Ana Police Dept.Milorad Teodor OlicMilorad Teodor Olic and his 80-year-old father were driving along Monday afternoon, looking for an apartment for the 43-year-old Santa Ana man, when an argument broke out."Son," Pops essentially said, "I'm cutting you off."Olic did not take the news well, ... More >>
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March 15, 2010
[UPDATED] Grrl Fair Shut Down!
The day before the Ninth Annual Grrl Fair was set to happen March 6 in Santa Ana, organizers learned their event would be shut down by code enforcement and the threat of the Santa Ana Police Department."Grrl Fair has been running since 2002 and in Santa Ana since 2004," says a Grrl Fair orga ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
[UPDATED:] Pedro Cerecer, OC Homicide No. 25: His Lover Confessed to the Killing, Say Police
UPDATE: Charges announced this afternoon by the Orange County District Attorney's Office detail the identity of the murder victim, how he was killed and his relationship to his supposedly confessed killer. Updates throughout . . . Jose Fuentes, 23, and Pedro Cerecer, 47, had been lovers for abou ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
Tony Diep Faces Charges of Issuing Death Threats Against Santa Ana Police Officers
In case you ever wondered if it is illegal to smear shit on the outside wall of the Santa Ana Public Library and drop into the book-drop box a letter addressed to the person in charge of the letter and the Santa Ana Police Department that threatened 50 times worse vandalism if the officer in char ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
[UPDATED:] Mario Alberto Colin Joins Girlfriend Cheryl Ann Stuart in Being Booked on Child Cruelty Charges, Much to the Surprise of His Wife
UPDATE: Orange County District Attorney statement on the charges against Colin and Stuart say that he texted her instructions on how to tie down and withhold food and water from children (see end of post) . . . A man who works with troubled children and is pursuing his masters in teaching at Cal ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Santa Ana Courthouse is for the Bird
"Walk at Your Own Risk!" warn handwritten signs affixed to a chain-link fence that runs along a Civic Center Drive path jurors and court employees trudge across in Santa Ana.The threat is not posed by criminal defendants, gone-postal divorcees or plump bailiffs who forgot their lunches.It's THE ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
[UPDATED:] Marco Rojo Nieto, OC Homicide No. 31: Beaten to Death
Jorge Alejandro LopezUPDATE: DA's statement on Jorge Alejandro Lopez's arraignment paints a much more senseless killing, reveals victim was a married father (see end of post) . . .Witnesses called Santa Ana Police around 4:30 p.m. Saturday regarding a homeless man lying on the sidewalk in the 30 ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
"Pop the Lock Crew" Strikes Again!
The Pop the Lock Crew has struck again!The three masked men tied to recent bank heists in Dana Point, Mission Viejo and Ladera Ranch are believed to be behind Tuesday's 5:40 p.m. robbery of the Wells Fargo at 28211 Crown Valley Parkway, Laguna Niguel.
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November 23, 2010
Tony Diep, Feces-on-Library-Spreading, Death-to-Cops-Threatening Bum, Gets 2 Years
If you can say one thing about Tony Diep it is this: the 47-year-old transient really had a bug up his ass over the Santa Ana police officer who provided security at the city's central library downtown.On the morning of July 30, 2008, feces were found spread on the outside wall of the library on ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
[UPDATED:] Alejandro David Sanchez, OC Homicide No. 50: Gunned Down in Bakery
SAPDFrankie GiraldoUpdate, December 9, 3:36 p.m.: A second man has been arrested in the murder of a Santa Ana man who was pouring himself a coffee in a local bakery.After Santa Ana police detectives served a search warrant of a residence in the 1500 block of South Diamond Street in Santa Ana Wed ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Gilberto Cruz Silva Guilty of Raping Prostitute, Trying to Rape Another at Knife Point
A 30-year-old Corona man was found guilty by a jury today of forcibly raping one prostitute and attempting to rape another at knife point. Gilberto Cruz Silva faces a maximum sentence of 36 years to life in state prison at his Jan. 21 sentencing in Westminster.
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December 6, 2010
Juan Humberto Avila, Linked to Cold-Case Rape of Teen, Faces 355 Years if Convicted on All Counts
Juan Humberto Avila may have thought he got away with it--if he is indeed guilty of the "it": raping a 16-year-old girl who was walking home from In-and-Out Burger in Santa Ana the afternoon of Jan. 21, 2008. A DNA match was made between evidence collected from the girl who was raped and Avila ... More >>
Music
January 27, 2011
Grrl Fair Turns 10
[Mental Notes] Also, a new drummer for A7F, a new name for the Grove, and new nominees for the OCMAs
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February 8, 2011
[UPDATED: Lineup Announced] Grrl Fair Already Planning for Its 10th Anniversary
UPDATE, FEB. 8, 12:28 P.M.: Over the weekend, Grrl Fair announced the lineup of bands ready to rock the event's 10th anniversary. Nine bands in total, ranging from blues and rock to mariachi music, will perform amidst feminist-themed workshops and more (to be announced) during the Grrl Fair colle ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Lawrence Joseph Brown: District Attorney and Co. Want Him Committed as 'Sexually Violent Predator' and Locked Away for Good
OCDALawrence Joseph Brown's booking photoOrange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas held a press conference this afternoon to lay out what he and fellow OC authorities have planned to keep a violent rapist out of the community.The DA called out the Department of Mental Health (DMH) for faili ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Jerry Brown Death Threat Graffiti Allows Foes to Paint Orange County With Pressurized Can of Hate
Representatives from the California Highway Patrol and Santa Ana Police Department said today there have been no new developments in the case of the death threats against Governor Jerry Brown spray-painted on two walls in Santa Ana. (Brown's office directed all inquiries to the CHP, which is head ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Rebeca Nivarez Murder Trial Begins Today, With Her Son Ricardo Dagoberto Diaz-Nivarez's Soon to Follow
CLICK HERE FOR UPDATED POST DETAILING REBECA NIVAREZ'S CONVICTION.Rebeca Nivarez, 46, of Garden Grove, is expected in a Santa Ana courtroom this morning for the start of her murder trial. She and her 25-year-old son allegedly plotted to rob and murder a Santa Ana jewelry salesman whose body was n ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
[UPDATED WITH CHARGES] Esteban Navarrete, OC Homicide No. 4: Shot in Parking Lot Where Fight Erupted Over Whose Mexican State is Better
Courtesy of SAPDMaria RochaUPDATE, FEB. 23, 2:06 P.M.: The Orange County district attorney's office (OCDA) today announced charges against the third defendant in the senseless slaying of Esteban Navarrete.Maria Isabel Rocha's 17-year-old brother, who is also a suspect, is also identified by the O ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
[UPDATED] Gilberto Cruz Silva Gets 39 Years to Life for Raping One Prostitute and Trying to Rape a Second
UPDATE, FEB. 18, 5:15 P.M.: 31-year-old Corona resident Gilberto Cruz Silva was sentenced to 39 years to life in state prison and required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life for raping one prostitute at knifepoint and trying to rape a second in 2009.
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March 17, 2011
Bobby Joyce, OC Prep Hoops Legend and Former UNLV Runnin' Rebel, Arrested for Robbing Disabled Vietnam War Vet
Santa Ana Police DepartmentJoyceThe news sickening everyone in Southern California that isn't the coming radiation plume is the robbery by two men of disabled Vietnam vet Michael Neil Shaurette as he waited in a Santa Ana bus stop in his wheelchair. It's a heinous crime, and the men who committed ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
[UPDATED with Conviction:] Milorad Teodor Olic to Represent Self at Trial for Attempted Murder of His 80-Year-Old Father
UPDATE, APRIL 8, 9:17 A.M.: Representing himself at his trial on attempted murder charges, Milorad Teodor Olic employed a novel defense strategy.The Santa Ana resident tried to prove his 80-year-old father stabbed himself repeatedly in the face and mouth.Needless to say, the jury in Santa Ana di ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
[UPDATED:] Lawrence Joseph Brown: District Attorney and Co. Want Him Committed as 'Sexually Violent Predator' and Locked Away for Good
OCDALawrence Joseph Brown's booking photoUPDATE, APRIL 11, 3:46 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office continues to work toward keeping convicted child rapist Lawrence Joseph Brown off the streets indefinitely, filing a new petition to have him committed to a mental institution as a s ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Luis Epifano, Bloodied and Half-Naked Parolee, Allegedly Leads Cops on Chase That Ends on Preschool Roof and Our Ugly Police Mugshot Roll
At least you can say this about Luis Epifano, this week's ugliest police mugshot "winner":He posed while wearing clothing.Unfortunately for Santa Ana police officers, that's not how they found him . . . on the roof of a preschool.
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May 3, 2011
[UPDATED with Sentence:] Rebeca Nivarez Found Guilty of Murdering Jeweler Despite No Victim Body
UPDATE, MAY 3, 4:35 P.M.: 46-year-old Rebeca Nivarez of Garden Grove has been sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison for robbing and murdering Mario Hernandez, a 78-year-old Santa Ana jewelry salesman whose body was never found.A Santa Ana jury on Feb. 1 agreed the mother plotted the crime ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Feminist Activists Shout Down Santa Ana's Santora Arts Building During Artwalk
Carla ZarateAs people strolled down Sycamore Street for Saturday's Santa Ana Artists Village Artwalk, they were greeted by the spectacle of a squared circle and Lucha Libre. After 8 p.m. on Broadway in front of the Santora Arts Building, onlookers happened upon a much different scene of la lucha ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
ACLU Demands Data on Mobile-Phone Surveillance From Five Orange County Police Agencies
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 >>
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September 29, 2011
Suspicious Packages Found Near Public Defender Office
The sheriff's department bomb squad examined two suspicious packages discovered near the Orange County Public Defender's downtown Santa Ana office this morning but nothing inside goes "Boom!"Officials did not use those exact words, of course.Inside the containers were boxes of plastic tools.
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October 21, 2011
[UPDATED: Santa Ana Police Respond to Camping Request] Occupy Orange County in Santa Ana Tomorrow
Update, October 21, 7:50 P.M.: The Santa Ana Police Department sent out a press release this evening stating that Occupy Orange County protesters won't be able to camp on city property. The release states that though the police will continue to work with protesters to ensure their first amendm ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
Santa Ana Off-Duty Cop Shoots and Kills a Guy
The off-duty officer from the Santa Ana Police Department has not been identified, but the circumstances that led him to shoot and kill a man in Lakewood this morning have been released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.The cop heard noises outside his Longworth Avenue home, went out ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
[UPDATED with Jason Bitz was Unarmed, May Have Not Been Stealing Car:] Santa Ana Off-Duty Cop Shoots and Kills a Guy
UPDATE, NOV. 3, 3:09 A.M.: Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators say Jason Richard Bitz was not armed when a Santa Ana police officer fired four times and killed the Long Beach 23-year-old in Lakewood Monday morning. The unidentified officer, who has been placed on administrative leave, had ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Leonel Santana Cervantes Accused of Creeping Out Females on Minnie Street in Santa Ana
A 43-year-old man is being held in lieu of $1 million bail for allegedly victimizing females who live in the 1000 block of Minnie Street in Santa Ana, including a 12-year-old girl who was fondled through a window.Leonel Santana Cervantes, who resides a quarter-mile away from the victims, could sp ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Smile for the 10 Ugliest Police Mugshots of 2011
On several Fridays this year, we've presented the Ugliest Police Mugshot of the Week.But what about the Ugliest Police Mugshots of the Year?Glad you asked.After the jump are the 10 ugliest of the ugliest, which were mostly culled from our semi-weekly selection, although we also tossed in some oth ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
[UPDATED with Fairview Checkpoint:] Beach Blvd. & Stanton Ave. DUI Stop Tonight
UPDATE, FEB. 10, 2:10 P.M.: The Santa Ana Police Department is also holding a DUI/unlicensed driver checkpoint near the 400 block of North Fairview Street from 7:30 p.m. Saturday through 1:30 a.m. Sunday.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 10, 7:09 A.M.: Citing research that shows sobriety checkpoints are effect ... More >>
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