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Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs

Johnathan Allen Kincaid Gets Life Without Parole for Stabbing-Murder of Tayroh Stinson

An Anaheim man was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for stabbing a 31-year-old Garden Grove man to death over a drug-deal dispute.Johnathan Allen Kincaid, 23, who had fled to Las Vegas after the July 29, 2009, murder, was convicted in February of felony speci ... More >>

Kiddie-Porn Lovers at OC Libraries

[Moxley Confidential] Three men, including a brazen public-library abuser, get punished for kiddie porn

Orange County Con Artist Targeting Christians Wins Long Prison Trip

An Orange County con artist, who posed as a wildly successful investor to lure $25.7 million mostly from Christians, received a 97-month prison sentence this week inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana.U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna gave a handcuffed Jon G. Ervin the ... More >>

Christopher Jordan Dorner Manhunt Reward Fund to Get $100,000 Boost from City of Irvine

When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck announced a $1 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of then-living fugitive Christopher Jordan Dorner on Feb. 10, they were surrounded by other city and police officials from LA, Irvine, Riversid ... More >>

[UPDATED with GUILTY!] Johnathan Allen Kincaid Convicted of Killing Tayroh Stinson

See the update at the end of this post about the jury reaching a guilty verdict.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 19, 9:11 A.M.: A murder trial is scheduled to begin in Santa Ana this morning for an Anaheim man accused of stabbing another man over a drug deal gone bad in Garden Grove before hiding out in Las Vega ... More >>

Lonnie Loren Kocontes Escaped Feds' Grip for Ex-Wife's Murder But Not OC Authorities'

The Orange County Sheriff's Department and District Attorney's office sent out press releases and OCDA Chief of Staff Susan Schroeder appeared in front of television news cameras Saturday with the stunning revelation a former Mission Viejo attorney had been arrested and charged with strangling his e ... More >>

[UPDATED with Hot Gassing Defended:] Christopher Jordan Dorner War Is Over!

See the update at the end of page 5 on the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department defending the use of "hot gas," which could have sparked the cabin fire, on the suspect.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 7, 9:48 A.M.: The word coming out of the Los Angeles Police Department this morning is meant to apply to t ... More >>

Orange County Bank Robber Just Can't Stay Clean

In July 2008, a disheveled, shirtless Peter Corlette Keesal** partied by himself in bushes near Aliso Viejo Town Center until an Orange County Sheriff's Department deputy found him. Keesal, then 43 years old and unemployed, had $24.25 in a sock, (incredibly) $12,315 stuffed in one pants pocket ... More >>

Bad Decembers For Orange County Drug Addict/Identity Thief

For Orange County's Savannah Rose Wofford, December apparently is not a good month.In Dec. 2010, she was arrested following a federal grand jury indictment for illegally possessing approximately 40 social security cards, credit card numbers and bank account numbers that did not belong to her while a ... More >>

William Scott Spalding, Gemologist-Movie Producer, Gets 10 Years for $280k Gold Scam

William Scott Spalding, the 47-year-old Irvine "gemologist" and "movie producer" who conned a single Huntington Beach mom out of $280,000 in a fake gold investment scam, pleaded guilty to a laundry list of charges today and was promptly sentenced to 10 years in state prison.He was also ordered to pa ... More >>

Federal Judge Sets December Trial Date For OC-LA Pot Shop Arrestees

While waiting for U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert N. Block to arrive in the ninth floor courtroom inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana this afternoon, the 14 individuals arrested in a federal takedown of a massive Orange County and LA marijuana distribution network were mostly smili ... More >>

Jimmy Tlamasico, 20 y.o. Santa Ana Gang Banger, Guilty of OC's 20th Murder of 2010

Twenty-year-old Jimmy Tlamasico, who I wouldn't card based on his booking photo at right, is looking at a lifetime in state prison without parole after a jury recently convicted him of committing Orange County's--you guessed it--20th murder of 2010.Tiamasico shot to death Jose Felix Nieto-Bautista, ... More >>

Mawufemor Bierko Accused of Crumbling Girl Scouts' Cookies by Stealing More Than $100k

A Cal State Long Beach graduate suspected of embezzling more than $100,000 from the Girl Scouts of Orange County was arrested at a Wisconsin airport earlier this month and is awaiting extradition back to California, according to U.S. Marshals and Irvine Police.Marshals were reportedly acting on a t ... More >>

Rodney Alcala Hits the Big Apple

Rodney Alcala, of serial killer and The Dating Game fame, is no longer Orange County's or California's problem.At least not temporarily, as U.S. Marshals today plucked him from the corner of the state's Death Row he darkens to board a plane for New York, where the now-68-year-old is to make a comman ... More >>

LA Deputies On Beating Johnnie Franklin Jones

[Moxley Confidential] It isn't just the Kelly Thomas killing in which cops believe they have the right to execute a citizen during a scuffle

OC Real Estate Swindler Who Stole $1 Million Learns His Punishment

In the 1993 film Falling Down, Michael Douglas plays a character who snaps while sitting in a Los Angeles traffic jam and goes on a wild crime spree.Orange County's David Richard Sparks can probably sympathize with Douglas' role.About three years ago, Sparks--once a successful businessman, husband o ... More >>

Robert Luis Reil Gets 50 More Years to Engage in Mexican Mafia Mayhem Behind Bars

The good news for those clinging to truth, justice and the American way (brought to you by Mennen) is Robert Luis Reil was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in state prison for his participation in the first Orange County murder of 2010. The bad news for those residing in the correctional facilit ... More >>

UPDATED with Capture: Federal Judge David O. Carter Orders Posse to Find Fugitive Brad Keith Lee

​UPDATE: Acting on the orders of a pissed off federal judge in Orange County, law enforcement officials this month arrested Brad Keith Lee in Washington state for probation violations; now he'll face the unhappy judge at a future date.ORIGINAL POST: 3/7/2012: David O. Carter is undoubtedly Orange ... More >>

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 >>

[UPDATED with Conviction:] Manuel Raul Orozco, 2010 OC Homicide No. 29: Gunned Down Near Friendship Park

​UPDATE, SEPT. 12, 8:16 A.M.: Charged as an adult last year at the ripe young age of 14--the lowest age allowed under law--Andrew Cervantes was convicted last week of second degree murder and gang sentencing enhancements for gunning down Manuel Raul Orozco, 17, steps from his Santa Ana home and Fr ... More >>

Walter Lawrence Dalie Returns to OC as Suspect in 1978 Murder of Laguna Beach Architect Brent Tobey

​A Connecticut man has left that storm-battered part of the country and is expected in sunny Orange County on Labor Day. But 52-year-old Walter Lawrence Dalie didn't pack sunscreen, boardshorts and a Grisham novel. He's moving from a state prison cell to OC Jail lockup.Extradited first by the U.S. ... More >>

[BREAKING] 'Radio' Raheem Abdul Edwards Gets Life Without Parole for Liquor-Store Owner's Murder

​BREAKING, MARCH 11, 12:41 P.M.: "Radio" Raheem Abdul Edwards, who managed to elude capture for the 2000 shooting and murder of Anaheim liquor-store owner Haeng Shin Kim by frequently moving, changing names and gnawing on his fingertips to remove his prints, was sentenced today to life in prison w ... More >>

[UPDATED WITH CONVICTION] Raheem Abdul Edwards Changed Names, Frequently Moved and Gnawed Off Fingerprints, But Still Could Not Escape Anaheim Murder Rap

​UPDATE, FEB. 10, 11:30 A.M.: It took a long time to bring "Radio" Raheem Abdul Edwards to justice for his role in the shooting-murder of liquor-store owner Haeng Shin Kim in Anaheim back in 2000.It took two days for a jury to convict the 30-year-old.

Akaninyene Efiong Akan, San Clemente Resident, Tied to Rape in Oakland. No, the Other Oakland

​A San Clemente man is being held for a rape in Oakland.No, not the Oakland of A's, Raiders, Oak Town, Jerry Brown and Epic Beard Man fame, but the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. Akaninyene Efiong Akan, a 29-year-old Nigerian, is charged with rape, burglary, assault and other crime ... More >>

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, doesn't work

[UPDATED:] Chi Ngoc Bui, OC Homicide No. 40: Run Over for His Casino Winnings

​UPDATE: The third murder suspect is arrested south of Bullhead City, Arizona (see end of post) . . .Chi Ngoc Bui won big the night of Sept. 2 at the Hawaiian Gardens Casino next to the 605 freeway. Little did the 55-year-old Westminster resident know that he was being watched, later followed or t ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Bernal Ezequiel Felix, OC Homicide No. 1: Man Shot Driving Through Neighborhood

​UPDATE: Four gang members face charges in Orange County's first murder of the year (updates throughout) . . . While at a party Jan. 4, three gang members are alleged to have asked a fourth to set up a meeting with drug dealer Bernal Ezquivel Felix. The plan, authorities say, was the stage a fake ... More >>

Laguna Hills SWAT Standoff Creates Tense Moments--for All the Poor Pot Plants Inside

​After a six-hour Orange County Sheriff's SWAT standoff in front of a Laguna Hills condo where U.S. Marshals had gone to serve search warrants Wednesday afternoon, authorities discovered there was no barricaded narcotics suspect inside as believed but a whole bunch of marijuana plants.What must th ... More >>

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 >>

[UPDATED:] Manuel Raul Orozco, OC Homicide No. 29: Gunned Down Near Friendship Park

UPDATE: A second 14-year-old has been arrested for murdering Manuel Raul Orozco (updates throughout) . . . ​Manuel Raul Orozco, 17, was just steps from his Santa Ana home about 5:30 p.m. June 22 when he was approached by two younger teens on bicycles.A gun was whipped out, a shot was fired into O ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Jose Felix Nieto-Bautista, OC Homicide No. 20: Shot During Robbery

UPDATED THROUGHOUT . . . View Larger MapThe man shot in the upper torso early Sunday before his car crashed into parked vehicles a couple blocks from Willowick Municipal Golf Course in Santa Ana has been identified. Jose Felix Nieto-Bautista, 22, later died at the hospital. Two have been arrested fo ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Ezequiel Felix Bernal, O.C. Homicide No. 1: Man Shot Driving Through Neighborhood

UPDATED WITH ARRESTS OF "PERSONS OF INTEREST" . . . View Larger Map Robert Reil and Amour Villamar, both 30 and from Santa Ana, have been arrested in Oregon in connection with Orange County's first murder of the year.

Just Another Orange County Murder: Joshua Steven Rodriguez

View Larger MapJoshua Steven Rodriguez, 18, of La Habra, was fatally stabbed on Nov. 1, but his death was not officially deemed a murder until a massive search warrant sweep Thursday morning led to several arrests.Joshua Steven Rodriguez with his mother Yolanda Mansillas and brother Reise Rodriguez ... More >>

UPDATED WITH ARREST: Just Another Orange County Murder: Tayroh DeShawn Stinson

View Larger Map UPDATE JUST IN FROM GARDEN GROVE POLICE DEPARTMENT: "On Sept. 29, Johnathan Allen Kincaid, 20, of Anaheim, was arrested for the murder of Tayroh Stinson.  Kincaid was already in custody after he was arrested on Sept. 4 in Las Vegas, Nevada, by the U.S. Marshal's Office for an o ... More >>

Once Again, George Jaramillo Is Mr. Big Mouth

Two Top OC Cops Turn Convicted Felons​He once dreamed of becoming California's first Latino governor. He finagled an improbable transition from Garden Grove police sergeant to the powerful No. 2 post at the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD). He even managed to create a fan club within the ... More >>

Carona Guilty of Witness Tampering

 "America's Sheriff" is a convicted felon.Ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona was found not guilty of multiple conspiracy counts and one witness tampering count in Santa Ana federal court today, but he was still found guilty of another witness tampering count. According to federal prosecutors, ... More >>

Want to Know How the Mike Carona Corruption Trial is Going?

While Jeffrey Rawitz—a high-powered Jones Day defense lawyer for indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona—spent the day repeatedly asking already (repeatedly) asked and answered questions of Don Haidl, the government's resilient key witness, a back-row juror I've nicknamed "Sam Drucker" (a character on t ... More >>

Can Joe The Juror Help Mike Carona in Corruption Trial?

Brian Sun, the Los Angles-based lawyer representing indicted ex-Orange County sheriff Mike Carona, emerged from U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Guilford's Santa Ana courtroom this afternoon all smiles. Minutes before, Sun and federal prosecutor Ken Julian had selected a panel of 12 citizens to hear ... More >>

At Frank Santos' Garden Grove Family Barbecue, the Police Brought the Pepper Spray and Handcuffs

Santa Ana Showdown

After Oscar Gallegos shot two Long Beach cops, he swore hed never be takenalive. His run for the border ended with a trip to a Santa Ana strip mall.

Diary of a Mad County

Sept. 20 - Sept. 26

Thanks for Visiting Mexico!

Alleged murderer who made a run for the border is finally back home and behind bars