Someone apparently threatened a Santa Ana city official and their family
The Santa Ana City Council met in closed session this evening to address two cases of pending litigation and a security threat. While the City Council did not make any…
O.C. woman gets 21 years to life in prison after a fatal DUI crash that orphaned three kids
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 23-year-old woman plead guilty today to two felony counts of murder for killing a young mother and father and seriously injuring their three young daughters…
O.C. church shooter’s charges now include hate crime enhancements
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 68-year-old Las Vegas man accused of carrying out a mass shooting during a Taiwanese Presbyterian church celebration last month, killing a 52-year-old doctor and wounding…
O.C. personal trainer gets life in prison for executing a man and a woman he thought was his ex
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Huntington Beach personal trainer was sentenced today to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole plus 54 years to life for executing a…
The OCDA’s AB 109 Crime Impact Task Force took hundreds of felons off our streets
SANTA ANA, Calif. – An undercover AB 109 Task Force of District Attorney investigators, police officers, and probation officers has taken hundreds of violent and dangerous felons off Orange County…
The OCDA is trying to keep a self-identified school shooter behind bars
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer and the UCI Police Department have been aggressively trying to keep a former UCI student and self-identified school shooter behind…
Felon facing multiple felony charges for driving his car onto children on a Santa Ana sidewalk
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 26-year-old felon has been charged with seven felony counts of premeditated attempted murder in connection with driving his car onto a Santa Ana sidewalk and…
Tustin podiatrist convicted and sentenced to 364 days in Jail for insurance fraud
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A judge has rejected a Tustin podiatrist’s request to extend her jail surrender date to serve time for seven felony counts of insurance fraud for billing…
Street racer pleads guilty to hit and run accident that killed two men in Santa Ana
Damian Chavez, a 26-year-old man from Bellflower, pleaded guilty Monday to a hit-and-run vehicular manslaughter that killed two men in Santa Ana on April 20, 2019. He is scheduled to…
Las Vegas man facing multiple felony charges for O.C. church shooting
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 68-year-old Las Vegas man has been charged with special circumstances murder and lying in wait for shooting a man to death and wounding five others…
Suspect facing multiple felonies after carjacking a pregnant woman in Santa Ana
Kendall William Meadows Jr., a 21-year-old man, left a pregnant woman in Santa Ana in critical condition after a violent carjacking. Meadows Jr. is facing numerous felony charges after he…
O.C. piano teacher gets 100 years to life in prison for molesting his young students
SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County piano teacher who sexually assaulted his young students during their music lessons over nearly 20 years was sentenced today to 100 years to…
An O.C. mother was sentenced to 25-years-to-life prison for killing her infant son
Sonia Hermosillo, 42, a La Habra woman who was prosecuted for fatally dropping her infant son, 7-month-old Noe Medina Jr., from a Children’s Hospital of Orange County parking structure on…