Stanton

Charles Patrick Drew, Two-Stiker Sex Offender, Indicted for Brutal Rape and Murder of Woman

Ugly mugged sex offender Charles Patrick Drew has been indicted for the special circumstances murder of a 29-year-old woman in the course of raping her in a Stanton motel room in June of last year. Drew, 63, who has two prior strike convictions from 1995 for forcible rape and assault with a deadly w ... More >>

Kevin Michael Sianez, Cop-Turned-Illegal P.I., Cops to Defrauding and Intimidating But What About Getting Women to Screw His Dog?

Former police officer Kevin Michael Sianez pleaded guilty Thursday to 17 felony counts of grand theft by false pretense, 11 felony counts of fraudulently using an access card, two felony counts of identity theft, four felony counts of possession of a firearm by a felon stemming from a 1998 convictio ... More >>

Jose Vargas, Legendary Police Officer, Passes Away

Federal Judge Tosses Out Animal Cruelty-Related $25 Million Lawsuit

A complaint seeking at least $25 million from Orange County and numerous employees at the Orange County Heathcare Agency's Animal Care Services for illegally seizing hundreds of exotic animals from a Stanton specialty pet shop has been tossed out of federal court. Jerry L. Steering--the Newport ... More >>

Leticia Carrasco Guilty of Murder, Robbery and Posing for Week's Ugliest Police Mugshot

OK, in the interest of full disclosure, I did look over Moxley's shoulder and noticed that he has a police mugshot in his dish--yes, we use dishes here to store police mugshots; don't judge--of someone uglier than Leticia Carrasco.But until he cracks that fellow out, I'm going to go ahead and name t ... More >>

Pepz Pizza Is a North County Secret

[Hole In the Wall] This North County chain is ready to go countywide

Judy Lee, Pastor's Wife, Mother of 4 and Music Teacher, Allegedly Sexed Up High School Pupil

An Orange County sheriff's deputy on routine patrol rolled up just before noon Wednesday on a car parked near Beach Boulevard and Starr Street in Stanton, where a couple inside were passionately making out. But an initial assessment of young lovers doing what young lovers do was challenged when the ... More >>

Jaime Arturo Garcia Admits He Set Fires, Poisoned Pooch Dexter and Slit Dog's Throat

Jaime Arturo Garcia pleaded guilty today to setting fires inside his Stanton home and killing his dog Dexter by poisoning him and slitting his throat. The Stanton 31-year-old could get four years and eight months in state prison at his May 7 sentencing after copping to felony arson of an inhabited ... More >>

Orange County Journo Writes for Huffington Post About Growing Up With "Cholo" as a Last Name

​It's one thing to be a cholo, but quite another to be a Cholo--someone whose surname is the word denoted to mean a gang member in Southern California, and a mixed-race mongrel virtually everywhere else in Latin America. And that's the apellido that Orange County resident Ana Beatriz Cholo grew up ... More >>

Rulin Hernandez Loaeza Guilty of Getting Oral at the Tip of a Weapon

​A Garden Grove man was convicted today of threatening two women with a weapon to receive oral and of assaulting a third woman. Rulin Hernandez Loaeza could get 15-to-life at his May 4 sentencing in Santa Ana. That's courtesy of the jury finding the 24-year-old guilty of two felony counts each o ... More >>

Ten Great Romantic Restaurants In Orange County

Courtesy of AnQi​If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then romance is up to the couple. I am enamored by a room with a view, yet also appreciate when he brings me my favorite doughnut. We already anticipate the "Who cares?", and you know what? We welcome it. Get all that (sexual) frustration o ... More >>

Juana Perez Valencia: Accused Baby Killer Blocked From Testifying in English

​How's this for a rare dilemma: A Mexico City native facing charges she murdered her infant baby in 2009 and tossed the girl's body in a Stanton trash can was told she could testify in her own defense today only if she spoke in Spanish and used an interpreter.Speaking softly in elementary English ... More >>

Oscar Raul Medina-Perez Gets Jail, Probation and Probably Deportation for Single-Punch Killing Outside Club

​When a man died weeks after Oscar Raul Medina-Perez dropped him with a single punch outside La Barca Night Club in Stanton last year, it was not outside the realm of possibility that the hitter would be looking at a murder count. After pleading guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter, Huntingt ... More >>

Tepache at El Chilango

[Hole In the Wall] The Mexico City-style mini-chain serves the rare fermented-pineapple drink—yum!

Metta World Peace (a.k.a. Ron Artest) Honored by Samantha Runnion's Memorial Foundation

​Metta World Peace, the rapper, quick-exiting Dancing With the Stars contestant and World Champion Los Angeles Laker formerly known as Ron "Ron-Ron" Artest, is being honored in Newport Beach this evening by the foundation formed in the memory of Samantha Runnion.The Joyful Child Foundation, which ... More >>

Cesar Sotelo Pleads Guilty to Climbing into Bed with 10-Year-Old Girl; Gets 2 Years in Prison Cell Bunk

​In exchange for a two-year prison sentence, a Stanton man pleaded guilty today to climbing through the bedroom window of a former neighbor and into the bed of a 10-year-old girl. Cesar Sotelo, 22, was looking at up to six years in the big house without the plea deal.

On the Line: Kevin Nagano of Sage Cafe, Part Two

Photo by Meranda Carter​Part Two of On the Line focuses some more on Kevin Nagano. Possessing firsthand experience of running a dining room provides an invaluable perspective of the customer service necessary to run Sage Cafe. Learn how this shapes his point-of-view, as well as who the person is i ... More >>

Ponderosa Park Farmers Market Brings Great Produce to South Anaheim

Dave Lieberman​Take a look at the list of the county's farmers markets and you'll notice something: they tend to be in well-to-do neighborhoods. The biggest is Irvine's Saturday market near UCI; there are markets in Tustin and Laguna Beach, Old Town Orange and Newport Beach, all places that aren't ... More >>

100 Reasons to Be Ecstatic About Summer In OC!

Summer here is bliss, better than anyplace else in the States

El Pollo Loco to Offer Carne Asada Plate--Why?

​I remember El Pollo Loco when it existed only in Mexican neighborhoods, decades before it became the conglomerate-owned chain it is. And its quality, surprisingly, hasn't gone down much over the years: you can still order the same basic, charbroiled chicken drenched in lime juice, skin blackened ... More >>

Imperial Stars: Arrested for Disturbing the Peace, Now Out of Jail and Seeking Dinner Dates Tonight in Hollywood

www.imperialstars.comWhen you're an aging and desperate wannabe hip-hop star, you, too, can pull ridiculous stunts and act like you came out of Zoolander!​According to their Twitter feed, yesterday's traffic blockers and self-declared hardcore hip-hoppers from Garden Grove​ are now out ... More >>

Mark Aime Brosseau Literally Caught With Pants Down in Truck With Boy: Police

​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 >>

Martin Trujillo, OC Homicide No. 42: Found Shot to Death

​Martin Trujillo was found shot to death in the 10900 block of Flower Avenue in Stanton around 10 p.m. Friday.Orange County Sheriff's investigators say the 30-year-old was a known gang member and that they believe his slaying was gang-related. However, deputies added the area where Trujillo's body ... More >>

A Stunner From Sheriff Hutchens

[Moxley Confidential] Documents reveal she found a deputy Taser incident to be absolutely shocking

Will Trains or Lanes Connect Santa Ana to LA County?

Choo choo​Orange County residents who love public transit--yes, some of these people do exist--talk fondly of Southern California's train-taking heritage. There was a time when the Pacific Electric "Red Car" rail system connected OC to LA to the Inland Empire and beyond; getting around without a h ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Harvey Romero Jr., OC Homicide No. 24: Shot in the Face

​Harvey Romero Jr., a 20-year-old from Garden Grove, left a graduation and birthday party in a car with four other people inside Friday night. At about 10 p.m., the car stopped on Santa Catalina Avenue in Stanton and the people inside started looking for a friend in the area. They talked to a gro ... More >>

Jons Marketplace to Open in Garden Grove

Jons Marketplace​We don't normally cover grocery store openings, but Jons is not your typical grocery store. An LA chain of "normal" supermarkets with an Armenian, Russian and Middle Eastern bent, Jons Marketplace has only had one outpost in OC, on Golden West in Westminster.

Belt-Beater From America's Most Wanted Sentenced to Life in Prison

Flickr user Forty Photographs / Creative CommonsBelts: unfortunately, not just for pants.Cuong Viet Nguyen, 29 and formerly of Garden Grove, was sentenced to life in prison today after spending some time on the run from the law.In 2005, he shot a man in Stanton after whipping him with his belt. And ... More >>

Cops to Be Out in Force Throughout OC This Weekend, "Black Friday"

​Various Orange County communities are going to be crawling with extra cops this weekend as pre-Thanksgiving pushes are made to get drunks, druggies, the unlicensed and unsafe motorcyclists off the road and to ensure everyone is buckling up.R. Scott Moxley blogged earlier today about the Orange Co ... More >>

Authorities Trumpet Largest Orange County Curfew Sweep

​About 300 officers from 20 law enforcement agencies made sweeps through various Orange County communities last night and early today and swooped up 67 kids in violation of city curfew laws, the District Attorney's office announced. Curfews begin at 10 or 11 p.m., depending o ... More >>

[Hole in the Wall] An Acid Trip Through the Ocean of OC Ceviche

Protest Prop 8 tonight and Sunday

Is your activist streak feeling unloved after watching footage of yesterday's protests in LA against the passage of Proposition 8? Well, here's your chance to vent (peacefully, people, peacefully...). Tonight (Friday), the Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Center is organizing a protest march down Broadway, ... More >>

[This Hole-In-the-Wall Life] Paleta Paradise at La Flor de Mexico

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Is an Anaheim pastor a serial child molester?

How's this for the granddaddy of all double-dipping: If law enforcement is right, pastor Raul Rosas Hernandez worked for both the Lord and Satan. Or, perhaps just Satan. Today, the Orange County District Attorney's office alleged that while Hernandez ministered to the faithful in telephone calls h ... More >>

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