An Orange County woman is waging a one-woman campaign to identify the man she says groped her while riding the Tower of Terror ride at Disneyland’s California Adventure. It seems the Anaheim Police aren’t working quickly enough for this person. She bought a keepsake photo of herself on the ride…
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Orange County “Special Officer” Shoots At Car Driving Away
I am always impressed when the laws of physics are turned on their ear. But when it’s combined with a lot of verbal hoohah, I am doubly so. Consider this story out of Santa Ana, California. A “special officer” with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department got into an altercationwith another…
Orange County Prosecutor Arrested for Domestic Violence
David Brent, a high-profile prosecutor in the Orange County District Attorney’s office, was arrested on Christmas Day for punching his wife in the face. Roshawn Brent, 27, called 911 while standing next to the couple’s parked car in the city of Huntington Beach. It appears Mr. Brent decided discretion was…
Dana Point Flasher Sentenced to Prison in Orange County Court
It takes an odd and disturbing commitment to flash your privates to nearly 100 south Orange County women while they are by themselves in isolated areas, like parks and hiking trails. Christopher Holden Fenn was arrested on Feb, 2, 2008 by Tustin police after a 911 caller told them she’d…
Costa Mesa Drycleaner Accused of Rape
Jaime Ramirez is looking at life in prison. As a registered violent sex predator. He’s not going to see the light of day if he is convicted of two aggravated rapes. In the first one, Ramirez allegedly knocked on the door of a neighbor he knew, went inside and had…
Santa Ana California Gang Member Claims Illegal Alien Status to Avoid Arrest
You can’t say he wasn’t creative. Adolfo Aparicio, a documented Santa Ana gang member misidentified himself as an illegal alien so that he could avoid capture for an attempted murder charge for which he was being sought. Turns out Aparicio got into a domestic dispute with his wife and mother…
Irvine, Sheriff Probe Apple Computer Thefts in Orange County
The crimes seemed simple. A person would buy something from the Apple store at the Mission Viejo Mall, or maybe at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, or at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California. A thief would break into the car after the owner left to do other shopping,…
San Clemente, California Man Charged with SEC Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Irvine-based Brookstreet Securities and it’s CEO, Stanley Brooks with Fraud, alleging they sold risky mortgage-backed securities to investors and failed to inform them properly of the risks. These types of investment vehicles are at the heart of the collapse of the U.S. and…
Orange County Sheriff’s Arrest Human Smuggler
A four-year old girl was rescued by law enforcementThursday after the police were alerted to a human smuggling operator by the child’s parents. It seems the kind gentleman, er, kidnapper and extorter, was supposed to bring the child to the United States and deliver her to her parents, who had…
Orange County Man Arrested After Defrauding Elderly Couple
John Arther Walthall, of Laguna Beach, was arrested last week for defrauding a Laguna Niguel elderly couple out of $4.7 million dollars.Walthall told this couple that he had invested his own money in a gold mining business and it had been very profitable for him. The couple gave millions of…