Ridesharing O.C. driver accused of molesting developmentally disabled women
Rusty Lee Love Costa Mesa Police DepartmentAdvisory: We are seeking potential additional victims of a ridesharing driver arrested for sexually assaulting developmentally disabled women Arrestee: Rusty Lee Love, 52, Huntington…
Gangbanger gets prison time after defacing a popular mural in Santa Ana
Eric Alan Cabrera Eric Alan Cabrera, 20, Garden Grove, AKA Eric Alan Cabrera Mora, will serve the 16-month sentence concurrently with a two-year term for burglary, according to the Orange…
Santa Ana woman to be charged with vehicular manslaughter after fatal car accident
19-YEAR-OLD DRIVER TO BE ARRAIGNED FOR VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER OF TWO MINORS AFTER FATAL CRASH IN TUSTIN SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 19-year-old driver is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for…
DNA evidence led to the arrest of a man for allegedly kidnapping and raping a girl in Costa Mesa
Rodolfo Jimenez, a 32-year-old man, is scheduled to be arraigned next month on charges of kidnapping a girl in Costa Mesa and raping her, according to NBC. Jimenez was connected…
Santa Ana man gets 10 years in prison after an armed robbery and carjacking attempt in Garden Grove
Abel Joseph Orduna, a 21-year-old Santa Ana man, pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for a violent robbery and attempted carjacking in Garden Grove,…
A female sex offender pleaded guilty to setting the Saddleback Lodge on fire
[caption id="attachment_73244" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Carrie Marie Immel[/caption] Carrie Marie Immel, a 41-year-old convicted sex offender, pleaded guilty Tuesday to setting a three-alarm fire in at the Saddleback Lodge apartment building at…
Man charged with murder after DUI accident in Santa Ana
[caption id="attachment_73195" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Accident at Grand in Santa Ana[/caption] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Case # 18CF3361 DATE December 4, 2018 MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER AND CAUSING GREAT BODILY INJURY WHILE…
A Santa Ana mother who drowned her baby was found to have been insane at the time
[caption id="attachment_27063" align="aligncenter" width="192"] Lucero Diaz Carrera[/caption] Lucero Carrera, now 33, a Santa Ana woman twice convicted of drowning her 2-month-old baby, Kimberly, was insane at the time of the…
A man got three years in jail for stabbing a homeless man to death in Santa Ana back in 1984
[caption id="attachment_72449" align="aligncenter" width="294"] John William Zelinski[/caption] John William Zelinski, a 63-year-old man, was sentenced Wednesday to only three years behind bars for fatally stabbing a homeless man in Santa…
Santa Ana man gets 27 years to life in prison for molesting ten little boys
[caption id="attachment_49399" align="aligncenter" width="179"] Edwin Echeverria[/caption] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Case # 14CF3934 November 16, 2018 MAN SENTENCED TO 27 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR LURING MINOR BOYS INTO APARTMENT…
Man charged with murder after a DUI crash that killed an off-duty Costa Mesa Fire Captain
[caption id="attachment_72832" align="aligncenter" width="175"] Stephen Taylor Scarpa[/caption] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 6, 2018 MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER FOR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS AND COLLIDING WITH OFF-DUTY COSTA MESA FIRE…
The OCDA charged four chiropractors allegedly involved in a workers’ comp referral scheme
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Case # 18CF3066 - 18CF3070 Date: October 31, 2018 PHASE II CHARGES FILED ON FOUR CHIROPRACTORS AND CAPPER IN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR WORKERS COMPENSATION INSURANCE REFERRAL SCHEME *Part…
An O.C. man was charged with hate crimes and assault after attacking several Latinos and police officers
Felony hate crime and other charges were filed Tuesday against Bryce Cameron Agius, 27, a man accused of directing racially derogatory comments at four Latino men, throwing a knife at a…
A Santa Ana man is facing 27 years to life in prison after molesting ten boys
[caption id="attachment_49399" align="aligncenter" width="251"] Edwin Echeverria[/caption] Edwin Damean Echeverria, 26, of Santa Ana, admitted molesting 10 boys in Santa Ana is facing 27 years to life in prison, a prosecutor…