Garden Grove Man Charged with Threatening Officers with Butcher Knife
A 53-year-old man was charged Tuesday with threatening two Garden Grove officers with a butcher knife as they investigated a domestic dispute against the defendant’s wife. Fernando Alcalarodriguez of...
View ArticleThermal Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Relative Returns To Court
A Thermal man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a teenage relative is scheduled to return to court Wednesday where a judge could decide if he must stand trial. Elit Barroso Miranda, 36, is...
View ArticleFormer OC Welding Instructor Charged with Molesting Student
A former welding instructor at Santa Ana College has been charged with molesting a 15-year-old high school student in his class, and investigators put out a call Wednesday for the public’s help in...
View ArticleWelding Instructor at Hemet School Charged with Molesting Former Student in OC
A former welding instructor at Santa Ana College who now teaches at a Hemet high school has been charged with molesting a 15-year-old former student, and investigators put out a call Wednesday for the...
View ArticleFormer OC Welding Instructor Charged with Molesting Student
A former welding instructor at Santa Ana College has been charged with molesting a 15-year-old high school student in his class, and investigators put out a call Wednesday for the public’s help in...
View ArticleLAPD Officer Charged With Brandishing Gun While Off-Duty
A Los Angeles Police Department officer is set to be arraigned Feb. 4 on a felony charge alleging that she flashed a gun at a motorist in Valencia during a road-rage incident while off-duty, the Los...
View ArticleJury Selection Is Monday for Probationer Charged with Trying to Snatch Boys
Jury selection is slated to get underway Monday for the trial of a 30-year-old probationer accused of attempting to abduct two Lake Elsinore boys — one of whom he briefly held and ran away with — at a...
View ArticleFormer Uber Driver Charged with Sex Assault on Intoxicated Passenger
A former Uber driver was charged Friday with sexually assaulting a passenger as he drove her home from Tustin to Santa Ana. Amir Attia, 45, of Tustin could face up to six years behind bars if convicted...
View ArticleJury Selection to Begin for Probationer Charged with Trying to Snatch Boys
Jury selection is slated to get underway Monday for the trial of a 30-year-old probationer accused of attempting to abduct two young boys at a park playground in Lake Elsinore. Marcus Joseph DeWitt of...
View ArticleJury Selection Starts for Trial of Man Charged with Trying to Snatch Boys
Jury selection got underway Monday for the trial of a 30-year-old probationer accused of attempting to abduct two young boys at a park playground in Lake Elsinore. Marcus Joseph DeWitt of Lake Elsinore...
View ArticleDetectives Seek Additional Victims of Man Charged with Assault of Minor
Authorities are looking for additional victims of a man with an alleged history of approaching underage girls in Hollywood, who now stands accused of sexually assaulting a minor. Markell Rowland, 25,...
View ArticleLAPD Cop’s Murder Trial Begins Over Pomona Killing
An off-duty LAPD officer went on the run after fatally shooting a man on a Pomona street as the victim was trying to get away, a prosecutor told jurors Monday, while a defense attorney countered that...
View ArticleCovina Woman Charged in Deadly Hit-and-Run in Claremont
A 67-year-old motorist who allegedly struck and killed a pedestrian in Claremont was charged Monday with felony hit-and-run and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. Bail was set at $100,000 for Helen...
View ArticleRetrial Begins for Woman Charged With Murder in Fatal 4S Ranch DUI Crash
A woman who drove the wrong way down a 4S Ranch road, triggering a head-on crash that killed the other driver, had more than four times the legal limit of alcohol in her system at the time, a...
View ArticleHeartless Killer Of Helpless Terrier ‘Artie’? Alleged Shooter Charged With...
Photo via Wikimedia Commons A 23-year-old Lakewood man accused of fatally shooting a dog alongside a La Mirada street was charged Tuesday with six felonies, including animal cruelty. Shane Michael...
View ArticleOC Businessman Charged with Ripping Off Two Clients
A 64-year-old Orange County businessman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to stealing $110,000 from two clients. Robert Stoddard II of San Clemente was charged in December with two counts of grand theft and...
View ArticleJury Seated for Trial of Man Charged with Trying to Snatch Boys
A jury was seated Wednesday for the trial of a 30-year-old probationer accused of attempting to abduct two young boys at a park playground in Lake Elsinore. Marcus Joseph DeWitt of Lake Elsinore is...
View ArticleWoman Charged with Robbery at South Coast Plaza
A Newport Beach woman accused of stealing merchandise valued at more than $2 million from a high-end jewelry store at South Coast Plaza and threatening security guards with a knife in making her...
View ArticleMan Charged in Fatal Stabbing of Wife in San Juan Capistrano
A 50-year-old man was charged Thursday with fatally stabbing his wife in their San Juan Capistrano home. Sebastian Garcia Ramirez is charged with murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal...
View ArticleIndio Man Charged With Murder in Shooting Death of Woman Found Dead at Home
A 25-year-old Indio man was charged with murder Friday in the shooting death of a woman found dead in her home. The body was discovered around 1:40 p.m. Tuesday in a home at 38555 Rancho Los Coyotes...
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