Costa Mesa male babysitter convicted of molesting 17 little boys
Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski, a 34-year-old child care service provider from Costa Mesa, was convicted on Tuesday of molesting 17 boys who ranged in ages from as young as two years…
OCDA Todd Spitzer rips the disastrous No Bail policy at L.A. County
By Todd Spitzer, OCDA A controversial $0 bail policy went into effect in Los Angeles County yesterday, ending a policy of setting cash bail amounts for defendants commensurate with the…
Homeless man gets life in prison for murdering a soul singer who lived on the streets in Santa Ana
Betty Jane Willis SANTA ANA, Calif. – A homeless man was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole Thursday for the special circumstance murder of a 76-year-old former soul…
Former CSUF employee who fatally stabbed his boss on campus gets life in prison
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Huntington Beach man has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to fatally stabbing his boss more than 30 times…
Newport Beach doctor charged with sexually assaulting 9 male patients
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Newport Beach infectious disease doctor who specializes in treating members of the LGBTQ+ community has been charged with sexually assaulting nine male patients under the…
OCDA Spitzer laments the cop haters employed by County District Attorneys
The murder of one of society’s sworn protectors should be one of society’s most solemn moments. If our protectors can’t protect themselves from evil, then who will be able to…
Santa Ana man sentenced for sexually assaulting several young girls he met on Instagram
Brayan Padilla-Gomez, a 25-year-old Santa Ana man, was sentenced last Friday to 33 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting several girls in Santa Ana and Anaheim. He lured…
California law that would have let murderers with life sentences out of prison defeated!
Last night, California narrowly escaped another public safety disaster when SB 94 (Cortese), which would have let murderers sentenced to life without the possibility of parole out of prison, wasn’t…
Is crime going up in CA because Gov. Newsom keeps promoting public defenders into judges?
Commercial burglaries in California has reached its highest level since 2008, and the commercial robberies, where criminals are using force, are at the highest level since 2014, according to the…
Former O.C. basketball coach gets life in prison for molesting four young girls
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former girls’ high school and club basketball coach was sentenced today to 150 years to life for sexually assaulting four young girls he coached. One…
OCDA Spitzer denounces Senator Cortese’s attempt to let violent criminals out of jail
California State Senator Dave Cortese wants to let people get away with murder. Inmates sentenced to life without the possibility of parole are some of the worst of humanity –…
OCDA Spitzer urges Congress to save the Afghan prosecutors who were left behind
Washington, DC– On the second-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul and the end of the Kabul airlift known as Operation Allies Refuge, the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys issued the…
O.C. man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and leaving her body in an Anaheim trash bin
Amer Alhasan, a La Habra man, was convicted on Tuesday of murder for the 2018 slaying of his girlfriend, Tiyanie Ly. Alhasan strangled Ly and left her body in an…
Repeat DUI offender convicted again after a fatal DUI crash on the border of Tustin and Irvine
Yesterday, Pedro Pantoja Jr., 32, of Diamond Bar, who had a previous DUI conviction, was convicted of second-degree murder, DUI, evading the police, and multiple dangerous traffic violations. On April…
Man will spend 11 years in state prison for $400K So. California auto theft crime spree
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced the guilty plea and sentencing of Jean Parret, who carried out an extensive identity theft and grand theft scheme across several…