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The SAPD arrested three more gangbangers and recovered another gun
SAPD gang detectives, working proactive enforcement, arrested three suspected gang members in the alley of 2100 blk of W Myrtle this evening, according to the SAPD’s Twitter account.
The police detectives were able to recover a revolver.
Apparently the gangbangers have not figured out that the SAPD gang unit has plenty of time to run them down right now, with most of the city locked down due to the ongoing pandemic.
Another armed gangbanger was arrested by the SAPD today
SAPD police detectives conducting proactive enforcement, detained an identified gang member this morning, according to the SAPD’s Twitter account.
The police officers and arrested him in possession of a firearm with an extended high capacity magazine, as seen in the picture above.
The SAPD’s gang unit has been working hard of late and has had success arresting armed gangbangers!
The gangbangers don’t seem to realize that the police have some time on their hands with most of the city shut down due to the ongoing pandemic.
This is a bad time for these gangbangers to end up in prison as the Coronavirus has taken hold in many prisons nationwide. Misdemeanor sentences could end up being death sentences…
A person was ejected from a vehicle in a Santa Ana car accident today
O.C. firefighters and two Care ambulances as well as SAPD police officers responded to a major traffic collision at Warner Av & Raitt St. at about 12:15 p.m. today, according to the OCFA’s Twitter account.
The fire crews found two vehicles involved with one person ejected from a vehicle.
Two of the patients were transported to a trauma center by firefighter paramedics.
The car accident occurred near Adams Park.
More than half (range: 53%-62%) of teens (13-19 years) and adults aged 20-44 years who died in crashes in 2016 were not buckled up at the time of the crash, according to the CDC. A total of 23,714 drivers and passengers in passenger vehicles died in motor vehicle crashes in 2016.
What May’s Santa Ana Recall Election is really all about
When Santa Ana City Councilwoman Ceci Iglesias ran for the City Council back in 2018 she was considered an underdog as the powerful Santa Ana Police Association, the union that represents our local cops, was backing one of her opponents, Mirna Velasquez. There was also a third candidate, Nelida Mendoza, a Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustee who was backed by then Santa Ana City Councilman Sal Tinajero’s cabal.
Iglesias beat both Velasquez and Mendoza, garnering over 21,000 votes in the process.
Iglesias had won two terms previously on the Santa Ana Unified School District’ Board of Trustees. She won resoundingly in both of those campaigns.
Iglesias’ victories are befuddling to her detractors. She is a fiscal conservative in a City, Santa Ana, where Republican voter registration is now under 30%. Yet she keeps on winning.
Iglesias however incurred the wrath of the aforementioned Santa Ana Police Officers Association, specifically their President, Gerry Serrano, when she refused to support a huge raise for the Santa Ana police officers.
Here is the part that is tough to understand – Serrano prevailed. He and his cops got the raise. Iglesias and her City Council colleague Juan Villegas voted against the raise but it was approved by the rest of the Santa Ana City Council.
Serrano however decided to take out Iglesias – in a fit of pique that has resulted in this year’s ridiculous Recall election.
The City Council had an opportunity, for the record. to place this Recall Election on the March Primary Election ballot but they didn’t. Now the Recall Election is going to cost the taxpayers over $700,000.
Is it some sort of misbegotten machismo? Is Serrano upset that Iglesias keeps reminding voters about the DUI incident that derailed his run for the Garden Grove City Council in 2018?
Under the police union’s contract with the city, Serrano is completely released from his city job duties, while remaining a police sergeant and receiving his full city salary, plus premium pay equivalent to an additional 35 percent of his salary, according to the Voice of OC. While his salary is paid entirely by the Santa Ana Police Officers Association’s members it does stand in stark contrast to the very little money made by most households in Santa Ana. Serrano makes $353,568 a year in a city where the average household makes $61,000 a year and per capita income is only $19,000 a year, per the U.S. Census.
Serrano gets paid a fortune and he does not have to do any police work. He seems to spend all his spare time conniving to get more political power. And taking out Iglesias will solidify his control of the Santa Ana City Council.
It is unseemly for a city employee to be using the system to attach a duly elected City Council member. But that is exactly what has happened.
Understand this about Iglesias – her family fled war torn El Salvador after she was born in 1972. That is the time period when desperate socialists started a civil war in El Salvador as they took on the rich oligarchs and the corrupt military that ran that country at the time.
Today Iglesias is still fighting against corruption and political thugs. Her family may have escaped El Salvador but we have a real mess here in Santa Ana too.
The City of Santa Ana has been teetering on the brink of financial collapse for years. The Tinajero cabal routinely handed out raises to city employees that we just cannot afford now. Even worse the pensions and health benefits promised to all these people, like Serrano, are going to come due and the City of Santa Ana is going to have a heck of a time paying these bills.
That is why we need a strong fiscal conservative like Iglesias on our City Council. Get rid of her and you will have mostly a bunch of left-leaning lemmings who will be too afraid of Serrano and the other special interests to do the right thing.
Former Santa Ana City Council Member Sal Tinajero already succeeded in raising our local sales tax to the highest rate in Orange County via 2018’s Measure X. Imagine what a City Council run entirely by Serrano will do to us in years to come – to keep the millions coming to the city’s employees, particularly the cops? While Serrano did not support the 2018 Sales Tax Increase, Measure X, that money is being used primarily to pay for City employee pensions and benefits.
If the recall succeeds the candidate that gets the most votes in this election, to replace Iglesias, will take over in Ward 6. The aforementioned Mendoza is one of those candidates. Word is this time Serrano and company are backing her.
Click here to join the No on the Santa Ana Recall campaign.
The SAPD arrested two gangbangers and found meth and a gun in their car
While conducting proactive patrol checks this evening, SAPD Gang Unit Detectives observed two males loitering in a parking lot next to a parked vehicle, according to the SAPD’s Twitter account.
During a consent search the detectives found meth and a loaded 9mm semi-automatic handgun.
The owner of the vehicle was arrested for narcotic/firearm violations.
Once again our idiotic local gangbangers are still out causing trouble instead of following the County’s health directives during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
How many relatives of the gangbangers will get sick and die because the moronic gangbangers don’t have the sense to stay home and be safe?
Of course it speaks for itself that they had meth on them. Here is what meth can do to you:
The effects of meth can impact several crucial organ systems and cause long-term harm to the body, and the sharing of needles sometimes used for the injection of meth presents even greater dangers. Meth users face an elevated risk of heart disease, stroke, liver damage, immune suppression, and even Parkinson’s disease, and these conditions can be potentially fatal. Make no mistake: Chronic meth abuse can have a permanent impact on a person’s health, even after quitting.
And here is a reminder of what meth does to your face…
A robber carjacked a vehicle but was caught and arrested by the SAPD
Our readers spotted a large number of SAPD police officers at Fairview and 9th this evening. Now we know what happened.
The SAPD responded to a an armed robbery tonight and as the suspect fled he contacted a second victim and took their vehicle, according to the SAPD’s Twitter account.
The police officers located the vehicle and a pursuit ensued. A felony car stop was initiated and the suspect was arrested.
The police officers were able to locate a handgun inside the vehicle.
The name of the suspect was not released.
The SAPD is searching for witnesses and additional victims in an arson and attempted murder case
On Friday, April 10, 2020, SAPD Officers responded to the area of 1st Street and Broadway to assist the Orange County Fire Authority, as firefighters had just extinguished a man engulfed in flames. Officers initiated a criminal investigation. Based on surveillance footage, officers determined the victim was sitting on the sidewalk when a suspect rode up to him on a bicycle, doused him in an unknown liquid, later determined to be an accelerant, and lit him on fire. The suspect fled the scene on his bicycle. The attack was unprovoked.
The victim sustained 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree burns on his upper body. OCFA paramedics stabilized the victim at scene and transported him to a local trauma/burn center where physicians listed him in critical condition and later performed surgery to heal his wounds.
SAPD Homicide Section detectives assumed the investigation. Detectives worked with officers from the SAPD Quality of Life Team (QOLT) who specialize in interacting with the homeless population in the City of Santa Ana.
On Monday, April 13, 2020, QOLT Officers observed a man and bicycle, near the original crime scene, matching the description of the arson/attempt murder suspect. QOLT officers detained the man and alerted Homicide Section detectives. Detectives conducted witness interviews and obtained additional surveillance footage. Detectives arrested Adrian Alberto Rodriguez Herrera on suspicion of arson and attempted murder. Detectives are collaborating with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and working on gathering additional evidence The SAPD Homicide Section requests anyone with information about this crime come forward and provide any information on this case by calling (714) 245-8390.
Santa Ana gangbangers arrested after a shooting
Last night SAPD police officers seized a firearm following a shooting in progress from suspected gang members who were arrested, as reported on Twitter.
The SAPD did not reveal where the shooting took place nor how many suspects were arrested. The suspects were also not identified.
Apparently the local gangs are not following the COVID-19 health orders. It is hard to believe but while so many people are suffering the gangbangers are still breaking the law as they usually do.
Unfortunately by not isolating themselves these gangbangers could bring the deadly disease home to their families.
The SAPD will once again go after the Easter cruisers this year
Traditionally, the Santa Ana Police Department conducts large-scale anti-cruiser enforcement operations every Easter; this year is no exception. In years past, the City of Santa Ana has contended with large crowds, congested roadways, criminal activity; and quality of life issues that affect our residents, businesses and visitors.
Given the current “Stay at Home” order in the State of California in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we ask everyone to stay home and off the streets. Please limit travel for essential emergency services only.
Should people fail to obey the stay at home order and engage in activities associated with cruising, the Santa Ana Police Department will be ready to conduct zero-tolerance enforcement. Road closures, lane restrictions and extra uniformed officers will help the Santa Ana Police Department crack down on the annual tradition of cars cruising on Easter Sunday.
In addition to zero-tolerance anti-cruising traffic enforcement, the Santa Ana Police Department’s Metropolitan Division, consisting of the Gang Unit and newly-formed Major Enforcement Team (MET) will be out in force to supplement the traffic enforcement and address criminal activity, keep the peace, and protect lives and property.
Significant lane restrictions and road closures will be in effect in the following areas: Bristol Street from 17th Street to Callen’s Common, Main Street from 17th Street to Dyer Road, Edinger Avenue from Main Street to Raitt Street and Harbor Boulevard between Westminster Avenue and Edinger Avenue. Other vehicular and pedestrian traffic restrictions will occur throughout the City.
Traffic delays should be expected by anyone who does not avoid the targeted areas. We are requesting if you see cruising starting to occur or suspected criminal activity to call 714-834-4211 (or 9-1-1 if it is an emergency).
Missing Santa Ana woman has been located
UPDATE: Missing person Sandra Crenshaw has been located and reunited with her family.
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MISSING PERSON: Sandra Crenshaw (63)
DESCRIPTION: Female White, 5’05”, 100 lbs., with brown shoulder length curly hair, green eyes.
LAST SEEN WEARING: black jacket, black and white striped shirt, blue jeans, dark red shoes and a pearl necklace.
LAST SEEN: Saturday, April 4, 2020 at approximately 4:00 PM
On April 4, 2020, Sandra Crenshaw, went missing after a doctor’s visit in the area of 2100 East 1st Street in Santa Ana. Crenshaw is currently battling cancer and in need of medication. She is also exhibiting symptoms of early dementia. Crenshaw is from San Diego and not familiar with Orange County.
If anyone has information on Sandra Crenshaw’s whereabouts, please contact the Santa Ana Police Department Communications Center at (714) 834-4211 or Detective Moroyoqui at (714) 245-8731 / gmoroyoqui@santa-ana.org.
The SAPD is searching for a critical missing woman
On April 4, 2020, Sandra Crenshaw, age 63, went missing after a doctor’s visit in the area of 2100 East 1st Street in Santa Ana. Crenshaw is currently battling cancer and in need of medication. She is also exhibiting symptoms of early dementia. Crenshaw is from San Diego and not familiar with Orange County.
MISSING PERSON: Sandra Crenshaw (63)
DESCRIPTION: Female White, 5’05”, 100 lbs., with brown shoulder length curly hair, green eyes.
LAST SEEN WEARING: black jacket, black and white striped shirt, blue jeans, dark red shoes and a pearl necklace.
LAST SEEN: Saturday, April 4, 2020 at approximately 4:00 PM
If anyone has information on Sandra Crenshaw’s whereabouts, please contact the Santa Ana Police Department Communications Center at (714) 834-4211 or Detective Moroyoqui at (714) 245-8731 / gmoroyoqui@santa-ana.org
The SAPD is investigating last night’s fatal shooting on W. Myrtle St.
Our Facebook readers contacted us last night about a shooting on West Myrtle Street. The shooting happened just south of the City Yard and Kidworks.
Now we know the sad details. Here is an update from the SAPD:
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at approximately 9:34 PM, SAPD Officers responded to a report of a shooting in the north alley at 2100 West Myrtle Street.
Officers arrived and located a crime scene. At approximately 9:40 PM, a group of people arrived at a local hospital with an adult woman, in a vehicle, suffering a gunshot wound.
Medical personnel exited the hospital to render aid. Doctors brought the woman into the hospital, where they attempted life-saving measures. The victim succumbed to her injuries and the attending physician declared her deceased at 9:46 PM.
The identity of the decedent is being withheld pending positive identification by the Orange County Coroner’s Division and notification of next of kin.
Santa Ana Homicide Section detectives responded and assumed the investigation, which is ongoing.
Investigators encourage anyone with information regarding this incident to come forward and provide a statement. This case is eligible for the Santa Ana Police Department Gang Homicide Reward. Santa Ana Police Department Homicide Section (714) 245-8390 or Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1-(855) TIP-OCCS.
The SAPD is looking for a man who allegedly committed lewd acts on a child
On 03/05/2020, an arrest warrant was issued for Felipe Fernandez Garcia, 22-years-old.
Garcia is wanted for lewd acts with a child that occurred in the Villa Del Sol Apartments.
Garcia is aware police officers are attempting to locate him regarding this incident. Garcia is known to frequent Costa Mesa, Riverside and Santa Ana.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Garcia is asked to please contact Detective Tapia at (714) 245-8516 or GTapia@santa-ana.org.
The SAPD arrested three armed gangbangers on probation for gun violations
Earlier today one of our Facebook readers reported a police helicopter near the apartments at Memory Lane and Bristol. Minutes ago we found out what happened!
An SAPD gang unit apparently observed three subjects flee from a vehicle, according to the SAPD’s Twitter account. A perimeter was established and two of the suspects were located hiding in separate yards; a loaded semi auto .380 pistol was found in a bush where a suspect was hiding.
The suspects turned out to be gang members and they were apparently on probation for firearm violations.
Some people never learn…