An O.C. doctor accused of rape apparently took his own life
Alain Johnny Nguyen, a 54-year-old doctor who was accused of rape by a woman in Anaheim, was found dead in his home on Friday, March 28, according to the Anaheim…
Anaheim man gets 15 years to life for brutally beating his girlfriend to death
Raymond Eugene Craft, a 68-year-old man, was sentenced on Friday, March 28 to 15 years to life in prison for fatally beating Deborah Brutsche, his 72-year-old longtime live-in girlfriend at…
O.C. mom charged with killing her own son to prevent her husband from taking custody
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A mother has been charged with one felony count of murder for slitting her 11-year-old son’s throat, killing the boy after a three-day vacation to Disneyland…
O.C. man who threw an injured cat in a dumpster charged with felony animal cruelty
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Mission Viejo man has been charged with felony animal cruelty after he was captured on surveillance video throwing an obviously injured cat inside a trash…
58-year-old Santa Ana man gets 293 years to life for abusing 7 boys as young as 6-years-old
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 58-year-old Santa Ana man was sentenced to 293 years to life today for m*lesting seven boys as young as six. The boys were the sons…
O.C. transient convicted of killing and decapitating another transient
Antonio Padilla, a 34-year-old transient, was convicted on Tuesday of killing, decapitating and burying Gina Lockhart, a 60-year-old homeless woman whose body was found weeks later in the backyard of…
Anaheim caretaker charged with abusing an elderly nonverbal woman with dementia
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 69-year-old caretaker has been charged with r*ping a bedridden 93-year-old woman who is nonverbal and suffers from dementia while he was supposed to be caring…
Orange County bolsters crime-fighting tools with a $742K investment in DNA technology
SANTA ANA, CA - At the January 28 Board of Supervisors meeting, the Supervisors unanimously approved $742,000 in Prop 69 funds to support local law enforcement, the OC Crime Lab,…
DUI driver gets only six years in prison after killing a motorcycle rider in Santa Ana
Mario Celestino Torres, a 30-year-old man, pleaded guilty on Monday and he was sentenced to only six years in prison for an alcohol-related DUI collision that killed Flor Mecon Granados, a…
OCDA’s office awarded $3.3M in State grants to fight DUIs
SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) is proud to announce that it has been once again chosen by the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS)…
Westminster City Councilmember charged with trying to bribe a city parking control officer
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Westminster city council member has been charged with one misdemeanor count of bribery of one of the City’s parking control officers in an effort to…
The OCDA urges President Trump to stop Chilean criminals from entering the U.S.
Organized crime rings from Chile are continuing to exploit a dangerous loophole in the U.S. ESTA Visa Waiver program to enter the United States unlimited times over a two-year period…
LA & OC DA’s urge Gov. Newsom to make looters felons and let them rot in State prisons
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Looting during a local emergency would become a felony punishable by a state prison sentence and make it a strike under California’s Three Strikes Law under…
Man convicted of trafficking a teen and pandering two women in Orange County
Xavier Dashea Washington, a 36-year-old man, was convicted on Wednesday of trafficking a 17-year-old runaway and pandering two other women in Orange County. Washington was found guilty of felony charges…
DJ arrested after abusing a child he met while working at an Irvine gaming store
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 37-year-old DJ at a virtual reality store at the Irvine Spectrum has been arrested on suspicion of m*lesting a 12-year-old boy after meeting the child…