Pandemonium has broken out at Harvey’s Original Seatbelt Bags as fans are lining up outside their Santa Ana location for an event that won’t even take place until tomorrow, Sep. 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Harvey’s is apparently going to host a Nightmare Before Christmas release party on tomorrow at their retail store. These goods will also be available online on Monday, 9/24 at 8 a.m. PST. Continue reading
Hugh Nguyen and his father
Hugh Nguyen, the elected Orange County Clerk-Recorder, was born in Vietnam 50 years ago. He spent a lifetime looking for his father, an unidentified American GI. Nguyen’s mother, a South Vietnamese woman, told him that his father had been killed in action prior to Nguyen’s birth.
Nguyen never gave up trying to find out who is father was. He married his high school sweetheart, raised a family and became the top Vietnamese-American elected official in Orange County. Yet he still yearned to know who his father was. Nguyen finally caught a break when he decided to do a DNA test through Ancestry.com. Continue reading
Enrique Garcia-Vazques, an 18-year-old employee, died in a workplace accident at Aardvark Clay and Supplies, a clay products business in Santa Ana on Thursday, Sep. 20, at 11:15 a.m., according to the OCFA.
The victim was trapped in heavy equipment, possibly a mixer, at his workplace, located at the 1400 block of E Pomona, in Santa Ana. Continue reading
City of Santa Ana
SANTA ANA, CA – On Tuesday, September 25 at 9:00 a.m., the Santa Ana City Council, along with representatives from Santa Ana College, Santa Ana Unified School District, Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce and the League of Women Voters will host a public event to kick off the City’s ‘Register and Vote’ campaign that will run until Election Day on November 6.
Youth organizers are encouraging new voters: “Don’t speak the change, make the change.” With this September 25th event, Santa Ana is joining efforts around the country to celebrate National Voter Registration Day. This single day of coordinated field, technology and media efforts aims to help tens of thousands of new voters learn about voter registration opportunities in Santa Ana. Continue reading
If you missed the Connect to Council Santa Ana City Council Candidate’s forum that took place on Wednesday night at the Delhi Center do not fret.
You will have another chance to meet the candidates at the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce 2018 Santa Ana City Council Candidates Forum, on Thursday night, September 20, 2018, from 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT at the Delhi Center, located at 505 E. Central Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92707. Continue reading
The Santa Ana Unified School District in partnership with the Santa Ana Public Schools Foundation will hold the annual Superintendent’s State of the District Breakfast on:
Friday, October 12, 2018 at 7:00 a.m. at Godinez Fundamental High School (Gymnasium) located at 3002 Centennial Road, 92704. Continue reading
Supervisor Andrew Do with a kitty
OC Animal Care Accepts $100,000 Grant for Neonatal Kitten Care
On Saturday, OC Animal Care accepted a $100,000 “Save Them All” kitten grant from Best Friends Animal Society. The grant money will contribute to expanding OC Animal Care’s foster caretaker program and its program for neonatal, bottle-fed kittens.
The funds will be put towards spay and neuter services, all medical care, vaccinations, microchip and antibiotics for neonatal kittens. OC Animal Care’s goal will always be to find permanent, loving homes for all animals at the OC Animal Care shelter, and this grant takes us one step closer to that goal. Continue reading
A fire broke out very early this morning, at 1:41 a.m., at a vacant building on 1st/S Elk Ln., at the Santa Ana Elks Lodge property, according to the OCFA.
The responding firefighters were able to knock down the blaze by 2:15 a.m. They then had to do a thorough search to confirm no homeless victims were inside the building. Continue reading
A car that crashed and burst into flames early Wednesday, Sept. 19, may have been in a street race, according to the O.C. Register.
Responding OCFA firefighters showed up at the scene at 12:20 a.m., at the 2060 block of South Ritchey. What they found was a white sedan that was completely engulfed in flames, according to the OCFA. Continue reading
Police in Garden Grove fatally shot one suspect while responding to a report of a domestic dispute on Tuesday, Sept. 18, according to the O.C. Register.
When Garden Grove police officers responded to calls about a woman in distress, at the parking lot of a Ralph’s grocery store located at 12051 Euclid St., near Chapman Ave., they found a 46-year-old man attacking a 43-year-old woman inside a silver Hyundai Sonata. Continue reading
Grant William Robicheaux
Case # 18HF1291
Date: September 18, 2018
*Two accused of working in tandem; may have traveled to different locations
SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney’s Office is seeking potential additional victims of a Newport Beach surgeon/ reality star and a woman who were charged today with sexually assaulting two women by use of drugs.
Defendant: Grant William Robicheaux, 38, Newport Beach
Charged on Sept. 11, 2018, with the following felony counts: Continue reading
The Tustin Chamber of Commerce is hosting a celebration of the 243rd birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps, at the Santa Ana American Legion, located at 1404 N. Grand Ave., on Nov. 10, 2018.
The event will feature dinner and a ceremony for $$20 plus a special commemorative coin for an additional $15. Continue reading
The City Council of Santa Ana has placed a tax increase measure on the November ballot, Measure X, that would increase sales tax in Santa Ana by 1.5 percent. If it passes, Santa Ana taxpayers and anyone who shops in Santa Ana would be paying the highest sales tax in Orange County, according to the OC Taxpayers Association.
The city is upside-down financially, with shortfalls estimated to grow from $10 million this fiscal yearto a nearly $40 million per-year shortfall in the 2021 fiscal year, in a series of deepening gaps, according to the Voice of OC. Continue reading
Case # 03CF3422
Date: September 14, 2018
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was arraigned today for the forgery of $344,000 in checks from his former employer Ace Hardware. He was extradited from Texas after fleeing to Honduras in 2003.
Defendant: Selvin Nelson Lopez, 48
Charged on Nov. 18, 2003, with: Continue reading
Javier Homero Montoya
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Case # 14WF4277
Date:September 14, 2018
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to 35 years to life in state prison today for murdering his passenger after assaulting two police officers and leading police on two separate high speed pursuits in Westminster.
Defendant: Javier Homero Montoya, 44, Riverside
Found guilty by a jury on April 25, 2018, of the following felony counts: Continue reading