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November 26, 2007
Monday's Headlines. No Surprises: Shaky ground for the mayor-who-would-be-governor
Preparing for deportation: In the past fiscal year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement made almost twice as many arrests (30,396) in its fugitive operations program as it did the previous year, reports the Register. ICE also picked up more than 4,000 illegals in workplace raids - up 11 percent fro ... More >>
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May 1, 2008
May Day rally not so big this year
Santa Ana police spokesman Jose Gonzales says a multi-police agency force of about 185 officers, some just on standby, were on duty to keep the peace as an expected 6,000 people were to march for immigrant rights downtown. But when the event actually went down, there were nearly as many cops and m ... More >>
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March 4, 2009
Report: Local Cops Abuse Federal Immigration Authority
A report released last night to the House Committee on Homeland Security from the General Accounting Office (GAO) says that poor oversight of a controversial program that trains state and local police to identify illegal immigrants involved in crime has allowed some cops to focus on minor busts rath ... More >>
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March 25, 2009
The Real Drug Bust of "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County"
The Peruvian boyfriend of Alex Murrel, a cast member from season 2 of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, was arrested in her rented Laguna Beach house on suspicion of felony possession of cocaine with intent to sell.Murrel, 22, was questioned as a witness last week but is not expected to fa ... More >>
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January 4, 2007
!Ask a Mexican!
Special Guadalupe Edition
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July 16, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Uncle Tom's Wabbin'
Special Guadalupe Edition
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December 1, 2009
Crime Time: Alleged Rummy Mommy, Ex-Cop Robber, Sticky Fingers, Douches on (and Taking) Bikes and Really Bad Karaoke Singers
It's the Weekly's weekly police blotter--now with more alleged rummy mommies, ex-cop robbers, sticky fingers, douches on bikes and really bad karaoke singers.MONDAY, NOV. 23 Insert car here.That Walled-In Feeling A man crashing his black Toyota Corolla into a wall at the Shell gas station at Lake ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
¿Ask a Minuteman?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] In honor of April Fools' Day, Jim Gilchrist puts on the sombrero and bandoliers this week
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May 28, 2010
Task Force Raids La Habra Grow Room, Arrests 3, Seizes 60 Marijuana Plants
View Larger Map A group a group that included La Habra police, Placentia police, Orange County and Anaheim SWAT and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raided a La Habra warehouse Thursday and seized 60 plants from a marijuana grow room. Three were arrested.
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July 1, 2010
Gustavo's Poetry Corner
[¡Ask a Mexican!] You might not be a pinche racist if . . .
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August 3, 2010
[UPDATED:] Marisela Espinoza, OC Homicide No. 37: Deadbeat Hubby Accused in Killing
UPDATE: Victim identified, charges filed, motive revealed (updates throughout) . . . After Marisela Espinoza failed to show up to work since July 27, her co-workers at Alcoa Fastening Systems in Fullerton called Santa Ana Police on Friday, concerned about her well-being. That began a chain of eve ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Immigration Could Creep into Senate RaceComment by SOUTHOC: I wrote Obama and "he" wrote me back stating that he would follow the writing on the statue of liberty. I reminded him that the statue of liberty was a gift from the French and not an American idea. No Amnesty for criminal ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Ali Achekzai, Serial Rape Suspect Captured in Austria, to be Back in Orange County Tonight
R. Scott Moxley told you in January about the capture of Ali Achekzai, a onetime Ladera Ranch resident and alleged Southern California serial rapist who was found living in Salzburg, Austria, through a DNA match. Tonight, the 32-year-old on District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' Ten Most Wanted list ... More >>
News
August 26, 2010
Asylum Denied
Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.
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September 29, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Vigil Tonight for Failed Illegal Immigrant ActComment by JDYBARRA: Why can't they DREAM in Mexico? Comment by SURFCITYRED: Great!! Have ICE show up and toss a big net over their ungrateful a$$es. Cinch up the net, toss their illegal butts on a bus and dump them back in Mexico. Then ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Feds Allege "Pump and Dump" Fraud Involving Panamanian Banks, Long Beach Fugitive and Sports Drink Named After Notre Dame's Rudy
Daniel "Rudy" RuettigerA Long Beach man who is believed to have fled to his native South Africa has been charged with running a $5.2-million "pump and dump" investment fraud that involved a sports drink named after Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger of Notre Dame football and Rudy movie fame, money launde ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Election 2010: Gustavo Drinks Through the Election, Or: Trashing the Dems and Bashing Whitman
Updated throughout the day, with the freshest post on top. Click after the jump for vignettes on Barbara Coe, Loretta Sanchez, Meg Whitman, and Borat!Midnight. Drink of choice: Alka-Seltzer...my pockets hurt. Loretta Sanchez has pulled away by thousands of votes, but we'll wait until the official ... More >>
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November 15, 2010
From Bogus Birther Cases to Bogus Immigration Trend for Orly Taitz Crony
Media Matters, the nonprofit, Web-based, progressive research and information center "dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media," discovered that Slate.com used a dubious source for an article that asked, "Are a small number o ... More >>
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November 15, 2010
ACLU Accuses Feds of Retaliatory Deportation of Whistleblower Who Sued Fullerton Company
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is "deeply concerned" over federal immigration agents detaining and initiating deportation proceedings against an immigrant worker who filed a federal class action lawsuit against a Fullerton-based firm in August for labor and civil rights violations. ... More >>
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November 29, 2010
Government Shuts Down Torrent Sites; Where Will People Steal Music Now?
ICE's message on the seized sitesThe New York Times reported that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, seized a number of sites that "either hosted unauthorized copies of films and music or allowed users to search for them elsewhere on the In ... More >>
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December 6, 2010
[UPDATED:] Matthew Lloyd Crippen Escapes Charges of Illegal Modification of Xbox Consoles
Update, December 6, 12:07 p.m.: A tip to you budding prosecutors out there: When a judge says, "I really don't understand what we're doing here," your case is in serious jeopardy. That's what U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez said last week in Los Angeles before the U.S. Attorney's Office anno ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
Regina Husman and Eveline Rahardja, Daughter and Mother Held by ICE in Santa Ana, Spark Petition Drive
Thousands of people around the world have signed petitions calling for the release of a Cal State Fullerton student and her mother, who have been shuffled around detention facilities and were sitting in a Santa Ana Jail cell at last report. Biology major Regina Husman, who is vice president of th ... More >>
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January 17, 2011
[UPDATED] Rachel Ann Hicks Busted for Allegedly Raping Maryland Boy She Met in X-Box Chat Room
Update, Jan. 17, 3:14 p.m.: Lake Forest resident Rachel Ann Hicks, 36, signed a court waiver last week allowing her to be extradited to Maryland to answer to charges she had sex with a 13-year-old boy in his bedroom around Thanksgiving 2010.Hicks was being held without bail in Orange County for t ... More >>
News
January 20, 2011
Who'll Stop the Pain?
A recent spate of suicides and strange deaths inside Orange County's jails has jail staff and activists alike clamoring for reform
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February 3, 2011
Immigration Detainee Dies at Theo Lacy Jail
Remember that cover story that ran in the Weekly a few weeks back about suicides and strange deaths inside Orange County Jails? The one that mentioned how the Sheriff's Dept. is filling up empty bunks with hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees? Well, now we can add an IC ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Ajit, Nisha and Runjhun Bhargava, Yorba Linda Family, Busted for Allegedly Arranging Sham Marriages
A Yorba Linda family was scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Santa Ana Wednesday on charges of arranging sham marriages so more than 20 foreigners could stay in the country legally.Ajit Bhargava, his 56-year-old wife Nisha Bhargava and their daughter Runjhun Bhargava, 30, are facing cha ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Transgendered, Gay ICE Detainees Sue Over Treatment at Theo Lacy Jail
Guards at Theo Lacy Jail routinely taunted transgendered immigration detainees, abusing them with anti-gay slurs and intrusive and unnecessary searches, while also keeping them locked in their cells for 22 hours a day, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of 13 detainees. According to ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
[UPDATED with ICE Suspending Deportation:] Isaura Garcia, Battered Woman Facing Deportation, Embodies Problems with ICE Program
UPDATE, MAY 13, 5:26 P.M.: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has informed the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) that it is dropping deportation proceedings against Isaura Garcia. Meanwhile, Joseph Huprich, the woman's pro bono attorney, says Ga ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Mandak Kohn Griffin, Cypress BMX Coach, Hit With Multiple Counts of Sex Assaults on Young Boys
Bicycle moto-cross (BMX) coach Mandak Kohn Griffin was to be arraigned today on charges of sexually assaulting three boys, ages 7 to 9, from his Cypress neighborhood and exchanging thousands of child pornography images over the Internet, authorities said. The 30-year-old Cypress resident could ge ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Samuel Chai Cho Oh Gets Prison Time For Selling Diplomas at Fake University
ICEA fake graduation ceremony at the fake school, California Union University. Hundreds of "students" "attended" Fullerton's "California Union University," a school with possibly no books or classes or teachers.It was a school run by 66-year-old pastor Samuel Chai Cho Oh, who was sentenced on Monday ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
Pedro Pimentel Rios, Accused in Civil War Atrocity, Deported to Guatemala
Courtesy ICEAdios, Rios.Pedro Pimentel Rios, 54, an erstwhile maintenance worker from Santa Ana, has been deported to Guatemala to stand trial for his involvement in the most notorious massacre of that country's civil war. Along with several other suspects who have been rounded up in the US, Cana ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
[UPDATED with Victim's Death:] Leovardo Vera Bustos, OC Homicide No. 33: Dies From Single Punch Outside Nightclub
Medina-PerezUPDATE, JULY 26, 7:44 A.M.: 24-year-old Westminster resident Leovardo Vera Bustos has died from the brain injuries suffered after sustaining a single punch in front of La Barca NIght Club in Stanton on July 5.Bustos fell backward, hit the ground hard, lost consciousness and never reg ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
[UPDATED With Criminal Charges, Another Incident:] Boat Carrying Mexican Nationals Capsizes Near Crystal Cove State Park
UPDATE, JULY 15, 4:17: Four of the fourteen Mexican nationals who were onboard the panga boat that capsized near Newport Tuesday have been charged as criminals -- three for "conspiring to bring illegal aliens to the United States" and the other for illegal entry. The three alleged consp ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
[UPDATED with Manslaughter Count:] Leovardo Vera Bustos, ~~OC Homicide No. 33~~: Dies From Single Punch
Medina-PerezUPDATE, AUG. 5, 10:19 A.M.: As expected, amended charges have been filed against 24-year-old Oscar Raul Medina-Perez in the death of Leovardo Vera Bustos, who died from brain injuries two weeks after taking a single punch in front of La Barca Night Club in Stanton on July 5.However, ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
[UPDATED with Defendant's Claims, New Details:] Samuel Martinez Gonzalez Accused of Bringing Teen Girls From Texas to Work for Him as Prostitutes
UPDATE, AUG. 16, 12:04 P.M.: Through the court affidavit and his appearance before a federal magistrate in Santa Ana Monday afternoon, we now know Samuel Martinez Gonzalez's side of the story that has him facing a maximum sentence of life behind bars if convicted.The 26-year-old Santa Ana man cl ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Gary Samuel Cochran, Child Porn Convict Swept Up in Peer-to-Peer Network Probe, Cuts Deal with Feds
Gary Samuel Cochran, a 53-year-old registered sex offender who was among 55 men nabbed after a multi-agency probe into child pornography exchanged via peer-to-peer networks like Limewire, agreed Thursday to plea guilty to making kiddie porn, federal prosecutors say.How kiddie? A search of Cochr ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Chicano Activist Carlos Montes Makes His Case in Anaheim Ahead of Next Court Date
MontesAt the invitation of the Orange County Peace Coalition, longtime Chicano activist Carlos Montes spoke about the serious legal charges he now faces to an audience gathered at the Unitarian Univeralist Church in Anaheim. "I was really happy to be invited to share my issue and support their wo ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Robert Edward Smyrak and Larry James Allred: Two Knuckleheads Bootlegged Disney Pins
Is there any doubt Disney will sue the balls off anyone who bootlegs its merchandise? Nope.Need proof? Just ask the two Southern California knuckleheads who were busted importing $2 million worth of bootlegged Disney pins from China.Learn more about their attempted scam (and some even more distur ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
[UPDATED With Email From an Arrested DREAMer] Five Undocumented College Students Detained at ICE Offices in Los Angeles After Sit-In; Three from Orange County
UPDATE, 2:39 p.m.: Francisco Javier Bravo, one of the arrested OC DREAMers, sent out an email to friends explaining the reasoning behind the protest."Hello Family/Friend/Ally," his email began. "Today I will be risking arrest to bring attention to one of my very important issues."
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October 25, 2011
ACLU Study Reveals Almost 200 Allegations Of Sexual Abuse Of Immigration Detainees, Three Cases At Santa Ana City Jail
A recent American Civil Liberties Union report shows that sexual abuse of people in immigration detention facilities is a widespread, and likely underreported, issue in the U.S. Through Freedom of Information Act requests, the ACLU learned of almost 200 cases of alleged sexual abus ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Leo James Zabala Jr. Accused of Posting Craigslist Personals Seeking Sex With High School Girls
After a personal ad posted Sept. 6 in Craigslist's Orange County "Casual Encounters" section offered to pay high school girls $60 for intercourse and $40 for head, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children alerted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investi ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Dora Landaverde-Torres, Wife of School Board Member, Faces Deportation
The wife of a Moreno Valley school board member is currently in lockup in Santa Ana. But Dora Landaverde-Torres is not sitting on a cold bunk due to a DUI crash, a shoplifting charge or swinging her purse at a Santa Ana cop. She's not even in the city jail. The wife of Mike Rios, who wants to run ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
17 of 19 Defendants Pleaded Guilty in Little Saigon Gaming Machine Case
Seventeen of the 19 people swept up in last spring's crackdown on illegal gambling machines in Little Saigon have reportedly pleaded guilty to misdemeanors.Charges were dismissed against an 18th arrestee, California Café manager Anh Viet Quach, 34, of Westminster, while Cafe Miss Cutie owner Ha ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
Oytun Ayse Mihalik, Turkish National Living in OC, Accused of Funding Pakistan Terrorists
Ah, Pakistan, that U.S. . . . ahem . . . ally with the homegrown terrorists trying to blow up American soldiers and citizens abroad. Let's us keep those special friends in mind while checking out this: Oytun Ayse Mihalik of La Palma has been indicted on federal charges of providing material suppo ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Gary Samuel Cochran, Who Filmed Video of 8-year-old Girl Having Sex, Gets 26 Years
Gary Samuel Cochran, a registered sex offender who was among 55 men nabbed after a multi-agency probe into child pornography exchanged via peer-to-peer networks like Limewire, was sentenced Monday to 26 years in federal prison. The 53-year-old had agreed in September to a plea deal after federal ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
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 >>
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January 25, 2012
[UPDATED with Not Guilty Plea:] Robert Vincent Peace, Youth Soccer Coach, Accused of Possessing Child Porn
UPDATE, JAN. 25, 10:36 A.M.: Ex-soccer coach and accused child pornography hoarder Robert Vincent Peace pleaded not guilty at arraignment Tuesday to 16 felonies and a sentencing enhancement allegation for substantial sexual conduct with a child. The judge set Peace's bail to $500,000. He fa ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Ali Achekzai, International Serial Rapist, Gets 61 Years to Life
International serial rapist Ali Achekzai, who was convicted of six felony counts last month after Orange County authorities had the 34-year-old extradited from Austria, was sentenced today to 61 years to life in state prison. Before the former Ladera Ranch resident learned his fate, one of three ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Meichun Cheng Huang, Irvine Toy Executive, Gets Prison Time for Laundering Drug Money
Angel Toy Co.The company literature says Angel Toy Co. distributes teddy bears and other stuffed animals around the world.According to the sentences handed down today, sisters Ling Yu of Arcadia and Meichun Cheng Huang of Irvine are spending the next three years in federal prison for using t ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
[UPDATED with ICE Freeing Eder Giovanni Herrera:] Itzcoatl Ocampo, Serial Killer Suspect, Accused of Fatal Stabbings of Mom and Son
Eder Giovanni HerreraUPDATE, FEB, 6, 4:22 P.M.: Federal immigration officials freed Eder Giovanni Herrera on his own recognizance."ICE's case review showed Mr. Herrera had not had any prior immigration enforcement encounters, nor did he have a criminal history, aside from the charges which wer ... More >>
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