No Evidence That Santa Ana Officers Consumed Marijuana-Laced ‘Edibles’ During...
Nearly a year after three Santa Ana police officers were accused of consuming edible marijuana during a pot-shop raid, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office filed misdemeanor charges against...
View ArticleUber Driver Accused of Raping Woman He Picked Up From O.C. Bar; Additional...
A 52-year-old Uber driver accused of raping a woman after picking her up from a bar in Fullerton appeared before a judge on Thursday as investigators searched for other possible victims. Omar Mahmoud...
View ArticleIrvine Man Charged in Hate Crime Against African-American Student, Victim’s...
A 24-year-old man accused in a hate crime assault against an unarmed African-American student and his brother in front of Irvine High School has been charged in the case and is due in court Monday,...
View ArticleOC Missionary, 80, Charged With Sexually Assaulting 2 Young Girls for Years;...
Police in Tustin were asking the public for help Tuesday in identifying potential additional victims of an 80-year-old missionary charged with sexually assaulting two girls under the age of 10 for a...
View ArticleO.C. Uber Driver Accused of Rape of Passenger Enters Not Guilty Plea
Omar Mahmoud Mousa of Anaheim pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday on charges connected to the October 2015 rape of a woman whom he had picked up privately. He allegedly told the victim to...
View ArticlePlacentia City Employee Arrested After Allegedly Embezzling, Misappropriating...
A former employee of Placentia’s Finance Department has been arrested after allegedly embezzling and misappropriating $4.3 million in public funds, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said...
View ArticleMan Sentenced to 4 Years After Victim Says She Was Held Captive, Sexually...
A man was sentenced to four years, four months in state prison on Friday, two years after a victim came forward saying he had held her captive for a decade and sexually assaulted her beginning when she...
View ArticleWoman Convicted of Murder in DUI Crash That Killed 6-Year-Old Girl in Santa Ana
The 37-year-old woman was convicted of murder Friday in a drunken driving crash that killed a 6-year-old girl and severely injured the child’s sister and mother in Santa Ana in 2012. Jessicah Louise...
View ArticleAnaheim Man Charged With Felony Vandalism, Inciting a Riot Outside Trump...
A 19-year-old Anaheim man who allegedly threw an object at a CHP patrol car during a Donald Trump rally in Costa Mesa was charged Monday with felony vandalism and misdemeanor “inciting a riot.” Luis...
View ArticleMan Charged With 20 Felonies in Molestations of Multiple O.C. Girls Over 2...
A 49-year-old man who is suspected of molesting multiple Orange County girls between the age of 5 and 15 over more than two decades appeared in court Monday to face 20 felony counts. Martin Rodriguez...
View ArticleO.C. Man Pleads Guilty in 1995 Kidnapping, Killing That Followed Rape Allegation
A 45-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday for his role in a decades-old kidnapping and revenge murder, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office. Shannon Ray Gries pleaded guilty to one...
View ArticleCounter-Protesters Charged With Attacking KKK Members During Anaheim Rally
Seven counter-protesters have been charged with attacking members of the Ku Klux Klan during a White Lives Matter rally that turned into a bloody melee in Anaheim earlier this year, prosecutors said...
View ArticleFormer Church Director Charged With Sexually Assaulting 14-Year-Old Girl in...
A 44-year-old former youth church director has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Buena Park, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Edmundo Nevarez, who...
View ArticleWoman Accused of Posing as Ex-Boyfriend’s Pregnant Wife to Post ‘Rape...
A 29-year-old Ontario woman has been charged with multiple felony counts for allegedly harassing, stalking and impersonating the pregnant wife of her ex-boyfriend, including placing ads on Craigslist...
View Article6 Charged in San Juan Capistrano Stabbing Death Linked to Love Triangle
Prosecutors have charged six people in connection with the death of a 38-year-old man who they said was lured and killed in San Juan Capistrano because he was in a relationship with one of the...
View ArticleMan Planned to Sexually Assault Boy, 4, Kidnapped From Santa Ana Park: DA
A 28-year-old Santa Ana man was charged Friday with kidnapping a 4-year-old boy he allegedly took from a birthday party at a park with the intent to sexually assault the child, the Orange County...
View ArticleAdditional Victims Sought of Man Accused of Sexually Assaulting 2 Women in...
Authorities were seeking possible additional victims of a 25-year-old man charged with sexually assaulting two women at parking garages at the Irvine Spectrum, the Orange County District Attorney’s...
View ArticleL.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Charged After Allegedly Setting Fire to...
A deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday after being charged with several felony counts, including allegedly setting fire to a live-in companion’s...
View ArticleEx-Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Convicted of Beating, Lighting Woman...
A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was convicted Monday of threatening a woman and setting her hair on fire in Buena Park and was sentenced to a year in jail, according to the Orange County...
View Article3 Arrested in Close-Range Fatal Shooting of 24-Year-Old Man at Buena Park Gas...
Three men have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man at a gas station in Buena Park last month, police announced Thursday. From left: Jeffrey Tuli, Dejon Vincent...
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