Santa Ana Police Department
McKenna Leigh Berry (16) was last seen on 07/18/17 at 7:51 p.m. when she voluntarily walked away from 2800 N. Main Street, Santa Ana, CA.
Berry is a white, female, 5’6″, 190 lbs., with brown short curly hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing blue jeans, black and white shirt, and converse shoes. She has a five-inch scar on her left forearm. Continue reading
Jose Esteban Zuniga
A jury on Thursday convicted Jose Esteban Cardenas Zuniga, a 41-year-old Mammoth Lakes man, of first-degree murder for the killing of a 25-year-old prostitute, Yacshicka Watts, whose body was dumped a decade ago in a Santa Ana parking lot, according to the O.C. Register.
Ten years later and prostitutes are still getting killed in Santa Ana! Some things never change. Continue reading
An unidentified female motorcyclist died this morning, just before 8 a.m., after colliding with a truck near Orange Avenue and Dyer Road, in Santa Ana, according to the O.C. Register.
The accident scene is a light industrial area with a lot of employers. Presumably the street traffic was heavy with morning commuters.
The female motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the SAPD. Continue reading
On Friday, July 21, 2017, at 3:38 AM, Santa Ana PD Officers responded to a family disturbance at a single-family residence at the 2400 block of Olive Street at around 3:47 a.m., according to the SAPD.
Initial reports indicated a resident at the location had been assaulted by a family member. Upon arrival, Officers encountered a Hispanic male in his early 20’s. An officer involved shooting occurred and the subject sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Continue reading
Costa Mesa Police Department
Advisory: Information Bulletin: Wanted Suspect
There are two active warrants out for Fuad Hurtado Flores’ arrest for vandalism and drug-related charges. Flores is also the suspect in an assault incident (CMPD case #17-9181). Flores uses the name of Abel Towin on Facebook, and he has a long criminal history including drugs and domestic violence. Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
Advisory: SANTA ANA POLICE STEP UP DUI EDUCATION
On Sunday, July 23rd, the Santa Ana Police Department will be displaying their “Choose your ride” vehicle at Chapter One located at 227 N. Broadway St. in Santa Ana from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m..
The “Choose your ride” vehicle is a car with half of it painted to resemble a yellow taxi, and the other half a police car. The message is simple and it implores patrons and a passerby to “Choose your ride” and Don’t Drink and Drive. Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
On Wednesday, 07/19/2017 at approximately 2:30 p.m., SAPD police officers responded to a fight near the intersection of Bristol and Warner. By the time the officers arrived, the suspect, Stephen Allan Edwards, 28-years old, had committed two batteries, a robbery and an assault with a deadly weapon.
The assault with a deadly weapon was against a Santa Ana Code Enforcement officer who had intervened in the robbery. The suspect tried to stab her with a knife through her car window. The code enforcement officer was not injured. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
July 19, 2017
Case # 16NF0460
*Man also charged with forcible sexual assaults on 15-year-old victim
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A San Jose felon was sentenced to 31 years and six months in state prison yesterday for human trafficking, pimping, and pandering two minors and six additional women using a firearm, intimidation, and drugs.
Defendant: Ariel Cuellar Guizar, 36, San Jose
Pleaded guilty on July 18, 2017, to felony: Continue reading
City of Santa Ana, Downtown Orange County
The City of Santa Ana has regulations in place to protect our neighborhoods and major thoroughfares from blight or unsightly conditions potentially caused by illegal signs. The Santa Ana Municipal Code prohibits advertising on public property, including but not limited to posting signs or posters on curbs, utility poles, traffic signals, and trees. If you’re caught posting signs in a right-of-way, you can be ticketed up to a $1,000 citation per location.
Recently, the City of Santa Ana conducted a targeted sweep, resulting in the removal of over 400 illegal signs from our streets along with several citations issued. The City has also added an “Illegal Signs” reporting function to the MySantaAna mobile app where the public can report illegal signs as a service request to have the signage removed. Continue reading
The popular Olive Garden restaurant at the MainPlace Mall closed on Sunday night after some 30 years at that location. The good news is that their new restaurant is opening this Wednesday, at 11 a.m., across the street at the City Place, at 2791 N. Main St.
Parking at the City Place is awful but folks will be able to park at the MainPlace Mall and just walk across the street to the City Place. Or even park just north of the City Place at the shopping center where Barnes and Noble is located. Continue reading
Remember when the gentrifiers promised that DTSA would be so much better and safer without all those Mexican bars? Well today Juan Angel Rivera, a 23-year old Santa Ana man who stabbed Nathan Alfaro, a fellow concert-goer, to death during a punk show at the Underground DTSA, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, according to the O.C. Register.
Rivera could have been sentenced to either probation or the minimum term of three years in prison. Instead Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick H. Donahue gave him a far more severe sentence. Donahue noted in his comments that Rivera had an abnormal fascination with knives. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Case # 00SF0657
Date: July 14, 2017
*Defendant fled to Mexico and was extradited 10 years later
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man who was extradited to Orange County from Mexico was sentenced today to 35 years to life in state prison for murdering a 19-year-old woman in 1992.
Defendant: Leonardo Pimentel Sanchez, 59, Mexico City, Mexico
Found guilty by a jury on May 22, 2017, of one felony count of: Continue reading
Do you remember when former SAPD Police Chief Carlos Rojas quit the SAPD to go be the Chief at BART (the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and Oakland)? At the time Rojas said his new job was a “fun” challenge. “I’m excited and humbled to have been selected to lead such a progressive police department,” he said.
Well it did not take Rojas long to anger his new employers!
“Not long after Rojas started work in late May, he made the decision to stop issuing daily curated email reports on police calls at BART, which described in short paragraphs the reported crime and the department’s response, and instead, to send BART crime information to the free online tool, CrimeMapping.com,” according to the Mercury News. Continue reading
Five juveniles were injured after an underage, unlicensed driver suspected of driving under the influence struck two pedestrians in Santa Ana on Thursday, according to ABC News.
The driver, who was not licensed, was speeding along the 1600 block of South Greenville Street at about 11 a.m. when he lost control of the silver Honda Accord, striking two juvenile pedestrians then crashing into a pole, according to the OC Register.
The crash occurred nearby several schools including Godinez High School, Carl Harvey Elementary School, and Carr Intermediate School. Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
Advisory: SANTA ANA POLICE IMPLEMENTS PLAN FOR INCREASED 7-DAY A WEEK GANG SUPPRESSION STRATEGY
Santa Ana, CA – JULY 13, 2017. Working to combat gang violence in Santa Ana, today Acting Chief David Valentin released a gang suppression plan. This plan is a coordinated suppression strategy in response to the City’s seven gang-related homicides and other documented gang related crimes, thus far in 2017, that targets gang related offenders and the most violent gangs. The core of the Department’s strategy will include the redeployment of officers from throughout the department to field gang activity suppression. Officers deployed to the department’s anti-gang units, will provide seven day a week coverage, enhancing the current strategy of four days a week coverage. Continue reading