Santa Ana man faces molestation charges dating back to 2011 after leading police on a chase
Jose Luis Mejia Salas, 27, a molestation suspect who eluded authorities for several years was caught following a police chase made his first appearance in court Tuesday on the sexual…
Santa Ana man who fled to Mexico charged with stalking, stabbing and murdering a man from Irvine
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE Case # 13CF1954 Date: July 20, 2016 MAN TO FACE TRIAL FOR STABBING-MURDER OF ACQUAINTENCE AFTER CHASING AND STALKING HIM AND FLEEING TO MEXICO…
Man with long record of DUI driving sentenced for latest crash that almost killed his family
Leonardo Morales, a 23-year-old man, was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for a drunken driving crash in which the SUV he was driving erupted into flames just before…
Santa Ana woman gets a 16-year sentence after trying to kidnap her roomie’s baby
Calling the crime one of the most “stupid, crazy and asinine” he’s seen, a judge on Friday sentenced Gladys Remigio, a Santa Ana woman, to 16 years in prison for…
Parolee gets six years in prison for trying to pimp a girl that turned out to be a cop
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE Case # 16NF0935 Date: June 29, 2016 PAROLEE STRIKER SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON FOR FALSE IMPERSONATION AND PANDERING FICTITIOUS MINOR GIRL ON…
Santa Ana teen faces adult murder charges after shooting and killing another teen
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE Case # 16CF1683 Date: June 28, 2016 TEENAGER ARRESTED AND CHARGED AS ADULT IN SHOOTING MURDER OF ANOTHER TEEN IN SANTA ANA HOME SANTA…
The CA Supreme Court confirms the death penalty conviction of an O.C. murderer
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYPRESS RELEASE Case # 94CF0821 Date: June 27, 2016 SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA UNANIMOUSLY AFFIRMS CONVICTION AND DEATH PENALTY SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF TWO SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES…
19-year-old gets a one-year jail sentence after beating a grandfather with a bat
Samuel Elijah Alvarez, a 19-year-old man from Santa Ana pleaded guilty Friday and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail for beating a great-grandfather with an aluminum bat when…
Man caught via his DNA charged with robbing, beating, kidnapping and raping a store employee
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE Case # 16WF1326 Date: June 24, 2016 MAN IDENTIFIED THROUGH DNA TO BE ARRAIGNED FOR ROBBING, KIDNAPPING, AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTING STORE EMPLOYEE SANTA ANA, Calif.…
Man charged with killing his ex girlfriend’s boyfriend and stabbing/kidnapping her
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE Case # 16CF1619 Date: June 21, 2016 FORMER BOYFRIEND TO BE ARRAIGNED FOR STABBING-MURDER OF MAN AND KIDNAPPING AND STABBING EX-GIRLFRIEND SANTA ANA, Calif. –…
Man charged with pimping a woman at gunpoint in Orange County
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE Case # 16NF1713 Date: June 13, 2016 FELON ARRAIGNED FOR TRAFFICKING WOMAN AND PIMPING HER BY USING FIREARM TO FORCE HER TO SOLICIT COMMERCIAL SEX…
Woman charged with setting fires at two Santa Ana stores so she could steal goods
Erika Rubi Hernandez Valeriano, a 41-year-old transient woman, pleaded not guilty today to two charges of arson, after she allegedly set fires in two stores while she stole shopping carts loaded with goods,…
Pimp sentenced after taking nearly $50K from a prostitute in Santa Ana
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE Case # 15NF1059/15NF2346 Date: June 9, 2016 MAN SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS IN PRISON FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING, PIMPING, AND PANDERING WOMAN AND ATTEMPTED PIMPING OF…
O.C. Sheriff Hutchens addresses the Jail Special Handling Log fiasco
Sheriff Hutchens Addresses Jail Special Handling Log SANTA ANA, Ca. (June 09, 2016) – Today in court there was discussion of the jail informant notes and special handling/classification log. I…
