Santa Ana man charged with felony animal cruelty after luring, torturing cats to death
A Santa Ana man accused of luring cats with cat food in order to kidnap the animals to stomp them and beat them to death has been charged with felony…
Former Westminster cop facing 15 felony charges for workers’ comp fraud
A former Westminster police officer has been charged with 15 felonies for stealing more than $600,000 in fraudulent workers’ compensation payments after she was caught dancing and drinking at the…
Third-strike offender convicted in meth-fueled DUI death of a Costa Mesa boy
Richard David Lavalle, a 64-year-old Long Beach man, was convicted on Thursday of second-degree murder related to a DUI collision that killed Noel Bascon, a 12-year-old boy who was crossing…
OCDA warns: citations and prosecutions await participants of street takeovers and illegal car meets
Do you like to participate in illegal car meets, sideshows and street parties/takeovers? If so OCDA Todd Spitzer wants to remind you that these activities are crimes. If you perform…
L.A. County man arrested for trafficking a missing teen in Anaheim
Alex Matthew Polidore, a 23-year-old man from Hawthorne, has been arrested and charged with human trafficking after investigators with the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF) located a missing…
Repeat O.C. domestic abuser found guilty of violently fatally stabbing his girlfriend
Craig James Charron, a 39-year-old Air Force veteran, has been found guilty of violently and fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Laura Sardinha, 25, at their Huntington Beach apartment in September 2020.…
Man gets 75 years to life in prison for deplorable crimes against two young O.C. girls
Edward Alexander Plass, a 55-year-old man, finally paid the price for his crimes when he was sentenced on Friday to 75 years to life in prison for m*lesting two girls…
An undocumented felon who killed two O.C. teens in a DUI collision may be getting out of prison early
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer released the following statement: Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, a convicted felon who was twice previously deported is being released after serving…
Santa Ana woman convicted of fatally stabbing her husband on his birthday
Michelle Gutierrez, a wife who fatally stabbed her husband, Cesar Reyes Zuna, 38-years-old, on the morning of his birthday back in 2021, as he lay in bed at their Santa…
O.C. man gets 30 years to life for the decapitation and murder of a transient woman
Antonio Padilla of Huntington Beach was sentenced today by Orange County Superior Court Judge Gary Paer to 30 years to life in state prison, for the murder of 60-year-old Regina…
The OCDA blocked the release of an O.C. inmate who targeted 20 young boys
SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has successfully kept a S*xually Violent Predator who spent decades m*lesting numerous young boys from being released from a state…
Former O.C. wrestling and football coach arrested for alleged illicit relationships with juvenile females
On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Orange County Sheriff’s Department Special Victim’s Detail (SVD) investigators arrested Anthony Oscar Alcala, 28, Huntington Beach, following allegations he had s*xual relationships with two juvenile…
Santa Ana man gets only nine years in prison after his street racing killed a news editor
Ricardo Tolento, a street racer whose unlawful and unsafe driving directly led to the death of Eugene "Gene" Harbrecht a 67-year-old news editor in Santa Ana five years ago was sentenced…
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…