U.S. Secret Service

California Vietnamese, Tibetans Protest Communist China Leader's Arrival For Summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting a warm welcome from U.S. President Barack Obama this afternoon in Rancho Mirage for their summit and not just because the California desert temperature topped 110 degrees. In his five years in the White House, Obama has treated the Chinese leadership with guar ... More >>

Secret Service Agent Once Assigned to Reagan's California Detail Is Punished for Bank Fraud

A federal judge in Orange County this week punished a Vietnam War refugee--who eventually became an accomplished U.S. Secret Service (USSS) special agent assigned to protect former First Lady Nancy Reagan--for operating a bank-fraud scheme. U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter sentenced Richa ... More >>

Jacob John Cunningham, John D. Silva, Justin Dennis Koelle and Dominic Adam Nolan Cop to Collecting Illegal Fees for Phony Loan Mods

Four men were convicted Wednesday for their roles in a real estate scam that stung hundreds of victims through the fraudulent collection of more than $130,000 in upfront fees for loan-modification services via fake letters with the CitiFinancial or CitiMortgage logos. Jacob John Cunningham, 26, of I ... More >>

Little Saigon Identity Thief Who Loves Nordstrom Gets A Break

Little Saigon's Celeste Anh Nguyen is a lucky criminal.A federal judge in Orange County is giving Nguyen--a brazen identity and mail thief--a generous path to erase her crimes from the public record if she successfully completes a Conviction and Sentence Alternative "CASA" Program.CASA provides subs ... More >>

Shell Gas Station Clerk Sentenced in Secret Service Case of ATM Card Skimming

A Santa Ana Shell gas station employee working in this country on a special work visa from India has been sentenced following a U.S. Secret Service investigation that discovered he'd taken $50,000 to allow other criminals to plant ATM card skimming devices inside gas pumps.Bhavesh Vithalbhai Lakhani ... More >>

Barack Obama and Orange County's Unfriendly Skies

Since Barack Obama will inevitably be venturing back into Southern California to revisit the Hollywood ATM machine during his presidential reelection bid, the military should just keep F-16 fighter jets in the air over Orange County full-time.For a second straight visit by The Chosen One, a small pl ... More >>

Secret Service Whoring Around Dates Back (at least) to Richard Nixon in San Clemente

Google "Barack Obama Nixonian" or just click this link. You'll see several e-pundits love making the Chosen One out to be Orange County favorite disgraced son Richard M. Nixon. Actually, former Nixon Library director John Taylor made that case--in a positive way--days before Obama was inaugurated. T ... More >>

Secret Service Nabbed Counterfeiters Targeting Newport Beach Learn Punishments

The night of July 2, 2011, was a wild one for Cynthia Lou Rudd and Edward John Kakos as the dating couple drove their van from Ventura County, where they stole $100 worth of gas, southbound to Orange County for the national holiday.Phoenix-native Rudd, the 53-year-old driver with a history of drunk ... More >>

Irvine Credit Card Swindler Learns Benefit of Aiding U.S. Secret Service

​An Irvine man arrested in 2006 by a federal Orange County Identity Theft Task Force after stealing more than $400,000 in a credit card fraud scheme is being released from custody after he pleaded guilty.Douglas Scott Frey, who was 36 years old at the time of his arrest, committed crimes that trig ... More >>

President Barack Obama Set to Land in Bitter Enemy Terrority--Orange County

​Under intense security, Air Force One and Barack Obama landed late this afternoon at Los Angeles International Airport for the president's ninth trip to Southern California and, during a series of fund-raising events, touted his administration's accomplishments, including a repeal of "Don't Ask; ... More >>

[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 >>

Feds Bust Alleged Internet Auto/Boat Sales Scam By Russians

​The U.S. Department of Justice in Los Angeles announced this afternoon that a federal grand jury has indicted six foreign nationals--including one in Costa Mesa--for operating an Internet-based sales scam that allegedly defrauded more than $4.2 million from unsuspecting shoppers since 2007.Accord ... More >>

Costa Mesa Hiring Former Secret Service Agent to Conduct Second Investigation of City Employee Suicide

​Either officials from Costa Mesa are really concerned with determining what exactly happened in the final hours and moments of Huy Pham's life before he seemed to have jumped from the roof of city hall or they're just protecting their own interests in the possibility that a lawsuit is f ... More >>

Jesus Christ Threatens to Kill Obama

​The Orange County Sheriff's Department received a call just after 10 a.m. Sunday from a distressed individual at Crossline Church, 23331 Moulton Parkway, Laguna Hills.Passing by the pews was a fellow who claimed he was Jesus Christ risen from the dead, and he had a message you won't find in Sunda ... More >>

Cops: OC White Power Gang "Disrupted" in Undercover Sting

PEN1 boss Wayne Marshall​After calling members of Public Enemy Number One Death Squad (PEN1) "haters and cowards," federal agent John A. Torres bragged today that government authorities had successfully infiltrated and disrupted Orange County's most notorious white supremacist gang."Their reign of ... More >>

Michelle Obama Spoke Near "Disaster" Site

​The Secret Service protecting Michelle Obama had reason to be suspicious of an ominous sight very close to where the first lady appeared as part of Maria Shriver's Women's Conference 2010 in Long Beach Tuesday. Cars were overturned at the intersection of First Street and Elm Avenue, but all was n ... More >>

Bill Clinton: OC Needs Loretta Sanchez in Congress

Photo by R. Scott MoxleyBill Clinton visited OC today​Accompanied by a decent-sized Secret Service detail, Bill Clinton came to Orange County this afternoon to offer advice.The 42nd president of the United States told several hundred people (and at least 60 reporters) gathered under a cloudy sky a ... More >>

Knows the Constitution Says, 'Don't H8'

[Best of OC 2010] Zoe Nicholson's 10 OC Survival Tips

Sarah Palin, Mama Grizzlies to Infest Anaheim

​A day after surviving a swarm of Secret Service agents, central Orange County will withstand an infestation of mama grizzlies.Mox just told you about Bill Clinton attending a campaign rally for Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) in Santa Ana on Friday, Oct. 15. Sarah Pa ... More >>

Thanh Viet Jeremy Cao Indicted for Allegedly Filing Tax Liens Against Fed Officials, Tax Returns With $20 Billion in Refunds for Himself

​A Rancho Santa Margarita man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas, where he also lives, for allegedly filing 22 false liens ranging from $25 million to $300 million against four federal judges and employees of the IRS, Secret Service, Securities and Exchange Commission and the ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Slams White House & Secret Service

Loretta gives her two cents​"I don't think visiting the White House ought be like shopping in a big box retail [store] on the day after Thanksgiving," said Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez during today's hearing involving U.S. Secret Service boss Mark Sullivan, who admitted that th ... More >>

Crime Time: Rapers! Robbers! Wife Killer! Bad Cops! And a Real Bozo!

It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--a day late and many dollars short of paying off the creditors who won't stop calling! Top photos courtesy of Huntington Beach Police Department A BOZO NO-NO: Here's the original suspect description Crime Time received for the Oct. ... More >>

Obama's Chin and a Little Bit of His Forehead

by Daffodil Altan and Vickie Chang He came. We saw (kind of). He left. For one hour and 15 minutes, Building 12 of the OC Fairgrounds, which normally houses things like Sugar Plum craft festivals and ShamWow demo booths, turned into the Church of Obama--those lucky enough to get tickets w ... More >>

The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

Multiperspective, Mega-Annoying Vantage Point

Embracing Our Contradictions

Jenna Bush, Author

Wednesday's Headlines

Rove's Tricked-Out Ride: Some folks at the White House apparently have a sense of humor. Karl Rove made the mistake of leaving his Jaguar on the private driveway next to the West Wing when he took off for Texas with le President. Now his car's covered in plastic wrap, post-it notes, stuffed animals ... More >>

Dying Another Day

‘Spy-Fi’

Protesters Don't Rattle Vietnam's President

In OC, an affable Nguyen Minh Triet seeks to heal ‘old wounds’

Secret Link Between Loretta Sanchez & Bob Dornan: An Appreciation of Male Thighs

In the late 90s, Orange County Congressman Robert K. Dornan couldn't stop himself from noting his fascination with then-President Bill Clinton. After watching a news clip of Clinton jog in shorts with a Secret Service detail in tow, Dornan quickly transformed into a political Steven Cojocaru, the ef ... More >>

Camera dCheatin

The movies cant get enough of marrieds getting it on outside marriage

Letters

'Moxleys use of "wheelchair-bound" and one "confined" to a wheelchair has been recognized as journalistically incorrect in the Associated Press stylebook for over a decade now. Why go out of the way to be politically inco

New Reviews

The Sentinel, Silent Hill, Standing Still

The Year in Diary of a Mad County

Worst. Year. Ever!

Diary of a Mad County

Dec. 14-20

Bring Em On

We go a-visiting with the president

Thats Our Bush!

The presidents re-election campaign kicks off with a shameless 9-11 docudrama

Say it with Puppets

Dont say anything with jazz

Leviathan Overlord

Conservative American Tragedy

Hurry!

Strange packages. High anxiety. Low-grade terror. Its holiday shopping time again, with us as your guides

Not a Movie

Watching the unwatchable

Jurassic Hype

How I survived the Jurassic Park III junket

Cinderella Stories

Amd then we have sex with Simon LeBon

Monique Ponte

Hippie Dick

Raising psychedelic furs at Nixon Library kids camp

Notes From E3

A day with the booth babes at the Electronic Entertainment Expo

Letters

Mugged

Need to find a good photo of yourself? Ask the Secret Service

Letters to the Editor - 9/11/98