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Little Saigon Identity Thief Craves High-End Stolen Products, Ignores Surveillance Cam
If you’re an identity thief, make sure you abuse your victims inside surveillance-camera loaded shopping areas, which is exactly what federal officials claim Orange County’s Khanhloc Pham did this year in Las Vegas and at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. According to a United States Postal Inspection Service report, Pham—a Garden Grove resident already […]
OCDA: No Charges for Fountain Valley Cops Who Shot Drunk Driver Charging Them
The scene of a fatal traffic collision in Fountain Valley last year could’ve ended up much more grisly. On Oct. 13, 2017, police officers responded to the intersection of Magnolia and Mint Avenue around 11:35 p.m. They closed off sections of the main street into the morning hours when a black Dodge Dakota barreled at them […]
Orange County Buddhist Church Honors Ancestors With Annual Obon Festival
When the Orange County Buddhist Church plays host to the Obon festival this weekend, it’s a time to reflect on the impermanence of life. The centuries-old Japanese custom remembers ancestors that came before us through bon odori, an immersive dance celebrating the teachings of the Buddha. The parking lot of the Shin Buddhist temple in […]
Saturday Checklist: Clean Huntington Beach, Write Letters, Protest Desalination Plant
Orange County Coastkeeper and other clean-water lovers gather for a Huntington State Beach cleanup Saturday morning, but they will be doing more than filling trash bags with cigarette butts, plastic water bottles and Styrofoam bits that fish confuse for lunch. “The event begins with a beach cleanup,” a Coastkeeper tells the Weekly, “and then it […]
Hospital Workers Picket for Better Pay at West Anaheim Medical Center
As temperatures neared 90 degrees on Wednesday, dozens of hospital workers at the West Anaheim Medical Center on the corner of Beach Boulevard and Orange Avenue held an informational picket over unfair wages. For three hours, nurses, hospital technicians and other medical staff clad in red National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) shirts marched in […]
DUI Checkpoints in Anaheim and Irvine Tonight, But First from Santa Ana …
Driving south on the 5 freeway from Anaheim to Irvine–where police in each city run separate DUI checkpoints tonight–you will pass through Santa Ana, which is where this story actually begins. Garret James McKinnon was involved in a car chase with police in pursuit on July 25, 2013, when he crashed into three other vehicles, […]
Irvine Company Denies Claims It Provides Shopper License Plates to ICE
If you drive to the Irvine Spectrum shopping center, Fashion Island or The Marketplace, it’s a sure bet that the Irvine, Newport Beach and/or Tustin Police Departments know about it. That’s because in 2016, The Irvine Company installed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) at these three shopping centers (click here to read The Irvine Company’s […]
Chinese Communist Spy Stealing U.S. Military Technology Pleads Guilty in OC
A 33-year-old Chino Hills resident—who provided accounting services for American aerospace companies, including U.S. defense contractors—pleaded guilty this week in Orange County to illegally transferring sensitive military technology to the People’s Republic of China. Si Chen (a.k.a. Cathy Chen) sent advanced radar, military-grade communications jammers, low-noise amplifiers and Ka-band space communications to Hong Kong in […]
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My Dog Is Friendly [Hey, You!]
You were the surfer dude with the tiny dog (on a leash) who was walking down the beach in front of our normally very friendly but curious poodle. For some reason, after letting several dozen dogs walk by our tent with no problem, our little friend saw your dog and immediately sprang into action, barking […]
Southern California Postal Employees Indicted for Stealing Gift Cards
A Southern California federal grand jury has indicted two U.S. Postal Service employees for stealing mailed corporate gift cards. Based on the investigatory work of federal law enforcement officials, the citizens’ panel this month charged Ronald Hinck and Crystal Fagan on July 3 for illegally pocketing merchandise intended for their customers. Fagan—a.k.a. Crystal Faganleake—used her […]
This Fair County: A Brief Timeline of Orange County’s Farming History
There’s a line in the sands of time by which one can measure Orange County history; on one side is B.D. (Before Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955), and the other, A.D. (After Disney). If you’ll allow the use of a gross generalization, pretty much everything that occured A.D. can be tied back to Mouse […]
Dana Watch: Riggy Rants
Before he was a Costa Mesa mayor and city councilman, Jim Righeimer was the campaign manager for Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s wet nurse)—which only adds to the sting of Riggy’s recent takedown of his former boss for the conservative National Review. Although Hillary Clinton carried the 48th Congressional District in the November 2016 presidential election, […]
OC Grand Jury says Orange County Emergency Operations Center is Vulnerable in Emergency!
High atop Loma Ridge is the Orange County Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Consider it the main command center during a big disaster. From there, 150 or more emergency responders and public officials can coordinate efforts to deal with anything ranging from a major earthquake to a mass shooting. It’s hard to overstate the facility’s vital […]
Federal Judge Rejects Fired Newport Beach Police Officer’s Lawsuit
A terminated Newport Beach Police Department (NBPD) sergeant this week lost his due process lawsuit challenging his five-year-old firing for, among other things, dishonesty, accepting gratuities and engaging in improper personal contacts with a confidential informant who was a convicted drug dealer and identity thief. Peterson’s 2106 complaint asserted that he’d been fired by a […]
Crime Lab Director Says Too Busy to Search for Forensic Science Errors
Bruce Houlihan enjoys puzzles, but the Orange County Crime Lab director is purposely failing to solve one of the biggest riddles of his career: Why did his office quietly give conflicting, pro-prosecution, expert testimony in two cold-case, rape/murder trials? Houlihan met that question—pending at least since 2016, when the Weekly revealed the controversy—with palpable silence […]
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Lopsiders [Savage Love]
Longtime Savage Love fanboy with a bit of a conundrum—and it’s your fault! I’m a bi man in my 30s. To use Charles M. Blow’s word, my bisexuality is “lopsided.” This means I fall in love with women exclusively, but I love to have sex with men occasionally. My current girlfriend not only approves, but […]
Political Fútbol: France vs. ?
FRANCE UPDATE: When last we updated our French cousins, President Emmanuel Macron had just fallen out of love with Donald Trump because, you know, eww. The fact that Macron and Trump had ever played footsy in the first place would be surprising unless you know Macron, who is 39-going-on-Divine-Right. It recently came to light he […]
CALPERS CEO and Sen. John Moorlach to Talk Socially Conscious Pension Investing
John Moorlach and Marcie Frost are not running against one another for office, but they are poised to take different sides on a public policy issue they will discuss Thursday in Huntington Beach. Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) is the state senator for the 37th district that stretches from Huntington Beach south to Three Arch Bay and […]
Gavin Newsom Brings His Campaign for Governor to Orange Thursday
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who hopes voters in November will promote him to governor, is coming to Orange Thursday afternoon. The Democratic Party of Orange County hosts a meet and greet with the candidate at UA Local 582 Plumbers & Steamfitters Union Hall, 1916 W. Chapman Ave., Orange. Doors open 3:30 p.m. for the event that […]
A Tale of Two Shitties: OC Prospects for Rent Control and Luxury Housing
The Orange County Business Council recently released the results of a poll that is claimed to show that a November ballot measure to expand the authority of local governments to enact rent control on homes and apartments would fail if Orange County voters voted right now. The survey about the so-called Affordable Housing Act, which […]
Orange County Federal Judges Upheld on Thailand Slave Labor Cases
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today affirmed two Orange County federal judges’ dismissal of lawsuits against Mars, Inc. and Nestlé USA, Inc. for not informing American customers that their seafood products originating from Thailand “may be the result of forced labor” and tied to “human trafficking.” Plaintiffs in the cases […]