Santa Ana man sentenced for $1.2M COVID-19 fraud
SANTA ANA, California – An Orange County man was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for fraudulently applying for more than $1.2 million in COVID-19 pandemic unemployment insurance…
Anaheim tax preparer sentenced for a COVID-19 scam involving prisoners
Sandra Pineda, 37, an Anaheim tax preparer, was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for a COVID- 19 pandemic unemployment insurance scam that involved four state prisoners. Pineda…
More than 140 suspects charged with O.C. home invasions, smash & grab robberies and burglaries
SANTA ANA, Calif. – More than 140 defendants have been charged in the last year with committing Orange County home invasion robberies and burglaries, commercial burglaries, and smash and grab…
Homeless man gets 30 years to life in prison for killing another transient in Anaheim
Alvaro Mendoza Sahagun, a 59-year-old homeless man, was sentenced last Friday to 30 years to life in prison for killing another transient in a Salvation Army shelter in Anaheim. Sahagun…
Cheerleading coach charged with molesting six little girls in Orange County
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Orange County competitive cheerleading coach has been charged with multiple felonies for molesting six girls as young as 11 years old while coaching at…
Three striker sentenced after attacking a former Real Housewives of O.C. cast member that he dated
Ryan Matthew Geraghty, 34, an ex-boyfriend of Elizabeth Lyn Vargas, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleaded guilty on Tuesday to attacking the former “The Real Housewives of…
Santa Ana man convicted for fatally shooting a man who clipped his truck’s mirror
Lee Queuon Walker, a 42-year-old Santa Ana man, was convicted on Tuesday of a fatal Thanksgiving night road rage attack. Walker shot at a group of men in Costa Mesa…
Garden Grove woman pleads guilty in illegal gambling case
Honganh Thi Pham, a 41-year-old Garden Grove woman, pleaded guilty on Monday to a federal conspiracy charge after a crackdown by the Orange County Asian Organized Crime Task Force on…
Santa Ana felon convicted of killing a young man in a drive-by shooting
Edgar Macias Martinez, a 25-year-old man, was convicted on Wednesday of fatally shooting Alex Ruiz (pictured above) of Garden Grove, 20-years-old, in a drive-by shooting in Santa Ana in the…
Anaheim man sentenced for killing a woman four years ago
Pablo Partida Aparicio, a 26-year-old Anaheim resident, was sentenced last week to 15 years in prison for killing 26-year-old Ayleen Morales in Anaheim four years ago. Aparicio accepted a charge…
Man who fled to Mexico pleads guilty to killing his roommate in Santa Ana back in 1996
Edgar Ortega Cervantes, a 52-year-old man, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty halfway through his trial for fatally stabbing his roommate, Julio Franco,…
O.C. child molestation suspect allegedly used babysitters to recruit his victims
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying additional child victims of a man accused of grooming women to babysit children as young as four…
An Irvine man who worked for Homeland Security gets 8 years in prison for molesting two girls
Terry Edward Keegan, 60, a former Homeland Security employee who lived in Irvine, was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for molesting two girls and inappropriately touching another victim.…
Man arrested for allegedly pimping and raping a woman at an Anaheim motel
Charles Raymont Robinson, a 49-year-old man, was arrested on charges of pimping and raping a woman in Anaheim. Robinson is facing felony charges of human trafficking, pimping, pandering, rape, assault…
Man gets 25 years to life in prison after kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old Santa Ana girl
Jose Andres Plascencia, 42, was sentenced by O.C. Superior Court Judge Steven Bromberg to a sentence of 25 years to life on Friday, at a Santa Ana courtroom. Plascencia reportedly…