SANTA ANA, Calif. – Jason Valentine Esparza, a 60-year-old man accused of grooming women to babysit children as young as four years old and bring them to hotels so that he…
SANTA ANA – A Chilean national who escaped from a state prison fire camp in Los Angeles County on Sunday while serving time for his role in an Orange County…
SANTA ANA - A Chilean national in the United States on a visa waiver from the Department of Homeland Security who sentenced to state prison for his role in a…
SANTA ANA, Calif. – SANTA ANA, Calif. – The president of the Moulton Niguel Water District, Duane D. Cave, pleaded guilty today to one misdemeanor count of falsifying nomination paperwork…
SANTA ANA – Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer issued the following statement: Twelve criminal defendants, including a defendant charged with hacking a stranger to death with a hatchet and…
An Orange County jury found defendant Christian Hernandez, a 34-year-old La Mirada resident, guilty on multiple charges, this Thursday, according to the OCDA. The felony charges included attempted murder with…
Santa Ana — A church leader has been sentenced to 45 years to life for s+xually assaulting three young girls he met while attending church in Santa Ana. He became…
Santa Ana – A 34-year-old man has been convicted by a jury of three counts of special circumstance murder for stabbing his parents to death in their Newport Beach home…
On August 23, 2023, a tragic mass shooting unfolded at Cook’s Corner, a popular bar in Trabuco Canyon, resulting in multiple injuries and the death of the gunman, 60-year-old John…
Santa Ana – An Irvine attorney has been convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for killing the driver of a semi-truck in a fiery crash on the 22 freeway…
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Two MS-13 gang members were convicted Tuesday of ambushing a 25-year-old man while he sat in a Lake Forest hot tub with his girlfriend, stabbing the…
Andrew Isaiah Godinez, a 28-year-old transient, was convicted this week of the unprovoked fatal stabbing of Joseph Paul Gomez, a 46-year-old security guard from Tustin, at an Anaheim strip mall. Godinez…
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy has pleaded guilty to s*xually assaulting two female inmates, including directing them to engage in s*xual activity, while assigned to…
Rebecca Juarez, 39, and Juan Pablo Rodriguez, 31, both of Irvine were arrested on two counts of conspiracy, 21 counts of medical insurance fraud, and 21 counts of identity fraud…
A jury has convicted a 51-year-old man of kidnapping and s*xually assaulting a child more than a decade ago. On July 15, 2012, Francisco Javier Lopez, of Montebello, who was…