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Deadpan or Dead: Jim Gavin's Middle Men is the Real So Cal Existential Dread Deal

Good morning. Are you sure you've found the real deal when you see it? I mean the Real Deal, in caps, or in quotes, or whatever punctuation is required to separate if from the rest? Friends, home-grown So Cal short story writer Jim Gavin is the R.D., though most everybody already knew that except, i ... More >>

Dr. Alvin Yee, Who Saw Young "Patients" at Starbucks, Prescribed Drugs and Had One Die from O.D., to Plead Guilty to Federal Counts

Dr. Alvin Ming-Czech Yee, who lived in a Mission Viejo residence but used Starbucks locations as his office, will plead guilty April 17 to charges brought by federal authorities who first accused him in October 2011 of using the coffee lounge as "a front for drug dealing."A 21-year-old patient from ... More >>

Esteban Campos Cops to Being Phony Baloney Dentist

Esteban Campos pleaded guilty in Orange County Superior Court Wednesday to representing himself as a dentist despite having no license to practice and of stashing a large inventory of dental narcotics and other drugs.The Buena Park 47-year-old was sentenced to 30 days in jail, five years of probati ... More >>

Syrian American OC Resident Brings Medical Supplies To Syria

As geopolitical gridlock stymies international aid in Syria, expatriates and Americans of Syrian descent are taking it upon themselves to travel to the region and medically assist refugees on border towns and residents inside Syria. One of them is Omar Chamma, who resides in Fountain Valley with hi ... More >>

Kent Wycliffe Easter and Jillianne Bjorkholm Easter Sued by Terrified School Volunteer

The husband and wife lawyers accused of planting drugs on an Irvine elementary school volunteer as revenge for their son getting disciplined have more court time coming their way.Besides the criminal case against Kent Wycliffe Easter and Jill Bjorkholm Easter, they are now subjects of a lawsuit brou ... More >>

Esteban Campos Accused of Practicing Dentistry and Dispensing Meds Without a License

A Buena Park man is scheduled to be arraigned this morning on charges he stashed a large inventory of dental narcotics and other drugs and falsely represented himself as a dentist despite having no valid license to practice.Esteban Campos faces up to eight years in prison if convicted of two felony ... More >>

[UPDATED with Judge Denying Bail:] Rainer Klaus Reinscheid, UCI Professor, Charged for Fires, Threatening Murders and Sex Crimes

See Update No. 3 on judge denying bail for Rainer Klaus Reinscheid, his arraignment being delayed and other details.See Update No. 2 at the end of this post on the University High School infraction that apparently led to the suicide of the UCI professor's son and the charges pending against the acad ... More >>

Punk Band Dodge Dart Returns With Punk Fury and Prison Stories

In some ways, OC punk/pop band Dodge Dart has been around forever. And in others, they haven't. That's because the group has taken a few, shall we say, hiatuses, during its career. These lapses in activity aren't due to the usual inter-band fightings or the guitarist devoting himself to yoga. Nope, ... More >>

Edward Justin La Porte, Ex-Cop-Turned Fake Massage "Inspector," Gets Unhappy Ending

A retired Chicago-area cop admitted in court today he flashed a clipboard, holstered 9mm gun and badge on his waistband to Lake Forest day spa workers undergoing his phony "inspection"--and then went on to strip naked, demand a massage and, when he did not get his requested happy ending, ordered $2 ... More >>

Doctor Stands Trial For Overdose Deaths of Three Young Men; One From OC

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered Dr. Hsui-Ying "Lisa" Tseng to stand trial for second degree murder in the deaths of three young men, one of whom was Vu Nguyen, 28, from Lake Forest. The decision came after a preliminary hearing that lasted three weeks. The osteopathic medicine doctor alle ... More >>

[UPDATED with Possible Victim I.D., Easters' Past:] Kent Wycliffe Easter and Jillianne Bjorkholm Easter, Attorney Couple, Allegedly Planted Drugs on School Volunteer

See end of the post for victim possibly identified in lawsuit Kent Easter filed against her and his wife Jill's legal and crime-thriller background. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 19, 2:23 P.M.: Kent and Jill Easter are accused of being very bad eggs.The husband and wife attorneys face charges today of planti ... More >>

Dr. Alvin Yee Met 'Patients' At OC Starbucks, Allegedly Wrote Prescriptions For $600

flickr user Yosuke Hasegawa​​An Irvine-based doctor who allegedly did his shady business transactions at Starbucks was arrested last night after a year-long investigation.Alvin Ming-Czech Yee, 43, allegedly met with more than 10 "patients" a night -- usually at a Starbucks -- and wrote them pres ... More >>

John Anthony Hatherley, Dana Point Doctor, Allegedly Violates Probation, Surrenders Medical License

From Hatherley's Facebook page for his business...​Dr. John Anthony Hatherley has anything but a clean slate.He's been on a rocky road of prescription drug addiction, diversion programs and run-ins with the California Medical Board for the past decade. The one-time emergency room doctor, who ... More >>

Montel Williams Opening Sacramento Marijuana Club

​The longtime host of the Montel Williams Show is opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento, according to various news outlets including Village Voice Media's very own Toke of the Town blog. Williams, who suffers from multiple scleroris, has been an outspoken advocate of medical cannabi ... More >>

Jeffrey Francis Woods Loses Appeal to Bar Druggy Texts He Sent Before Crash That Killed Teen

The late Danny Oates​Jeffrey Francis Woods was high on Xanax and Hydrocodone/Vicodin the summer afternoon of 2007 he plowed his speeding Ford F150 truck into Danny Oates, who was riding his bicycle in a Huntington Beach bicycle lane. The 14-year-old, who was going to school with a friend to get ... More >>

John Anthony Hatherley, Dana Point Doctor, Has License Suspended by California Medical Board For Third Time

From Hatherley's Facebook page for his business...​In 2007, the Orange County Register published a bruising exposé of Dr. John Anthony Hatherley, a Huntington Beach doctor who had used his position as an emergency room doctor to feed his Vicodin addiction. Reporter Brian Joseph used him as a post ... More >>

Michael Eugene Upton Sentenced to 50 Years to Life for Murdering His Wife While She Slept

Courtesy of SAPDMIchael Eugene Upton​Back in July 2010, we told you about Michael Eugene Upton, who admitted to police that he shot his wife in the head while she slept. Looking at the guy's mugshot, he seems like the slightly unhinged type, but there does appear to be some goodwill to his story. ... More >>

Teens Smoke More Weed, Drink Less, Study Says

Flickr user twodolla​According to a recent study by the University of Michigan and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, pot use is increasing among American teenagers, while drinking is on the wane. This is apparently bad news, at least according to a group calling itself the Community Anti-Drug ... More >>

Drowning Your Sorrows

[Hey, You!] It's time to move on to the stage of grief that doesn't involve red wine and Vicodin

[UPDATED:] Melva Upton, OC Homicide No. 30: Husband Says He Did It

​UPDATE: Victim identified, DA announces sentence sought against her husband, updates throughout . . .Santa Ana Police say Michael Eugene Upton told them he and his wife lost their jobs, burned through their cash and were about to be evicted. Fearing life on the streets, he is said to have told co ... More >>

[Hole in the Wall] Chilly Salvation at Sno On the Go in Mission Viejo

Crime Time: Small Fries, Bad Tenants and the Church Lady

It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--small fry edition . . . MONDAY, JULY 20Artist's rendering of Bank of America robber. He may belong to that notorious street gang, the Lollipop Kids.​Watch Those Kids at the Playground A 3-year-old boy was at the playground in Ponderosa Park ... More >>

Yet Another Christian Disappointed by TBN

TBN Heads Paul & Jan Crouch: More than 1 billion souls bilked!A thousand apologies to the people who showed up to my scheduled speech on religion in Orange County this Saturday before the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Orange County chapter. Just half an hour before my ... More >>

How Robert Zilliott's alcohol-monitoring anklet led to a painful run-in with Laguna Beach cops

Tased and Confused

Al Gore III - What a dope

Al Gore's 24-year-old son graced our fair county with his presence earlier today - allegedly with an ounce of marijuana and other controlled substances (Vicodin, Valium, Xanax and Adderall) he didn't have a prescription for. He was stopped by the OC sheriff's department when they caught him going 10 ... More >>

The Beer That Made Tustin Infamous

OC cops seek to expand anti-public-drinking laws to private property

The Year in Letters

Keep It Up. You Rock. Dont Ever Change. All That Crap.

Osama's Gun

How to not build bin Ladens AK-47 without even trying

Letters

'Im not just saying this cause I stayed up all night wacked out on Vicodin and Sparks watching V for Vendetta'

Our Annual Salute to Drinking

Baghdad Boozin'

Or: Vodka and Vicodin in Iraq

Debasered

This monkeys gone to Coachella

Dont Stop the Musical

Laguna Playhouses The Last Five Years

Out of the Shadows

The Funk Brothers sweetest fruit

Death Watch

Its a Wonderful Week

All doped-up and nowhere to go

Locked and Loaded

Jazzbo George Shearing disses funk!

Confessions of a Border-Jumping Drug Smuggler

Keeping Tabs

Letters

Diary of a Mad County

The Really Annoying Guy

Irresolution, Please

Mo' Monica

Whos afraid of the ladies who lunch?

Dont Belive the Hype

Blurbing the Makers

For the Kids

Teach them well: Dont get ripped-off

Shakin Like a Leif

Kicking smack with Leif Garrett

Never Die

The Weekly's incomplete guide to an almost eternal life