Marijuana is found in a spare tire, trunk and pleasure boat. Total value: nearly $320,000.
Nervous car and boat drivers led U.S. Border Patrol agents to uncover smuggled marijuana worth an estimated $317,595 over the last week, officials said. Here's a rundown on the three busts: The suspected smugglers and narcotics were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of Homeland Security.
When Mission Viejo-based lawyer Ryan Craig teased a judge about heart attacks, it didn't go so well.
Mission Viejo man and his former tenant are accused in arson and insurance fraud plot.
Four oil paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries may have undone an arson and insurance fraud scheme designed to collect more than $1 million, authorities said Wednesday. State investigators have arrested Max Astan, a 61-year-old Mission Viejo resident, on suspicion of conspiracy, insurance fraud and intimidating a witness after a house he owned in Granada Hills burned down in June 2008. They also arrested his tenant, Van Nuys real estate agent Maryann Khosravizadeh, on suspicion of arson and conspiracy. After the fire, Astan filed an insurance claim, saying he had kept Persian rugs and other personal belongings in the house, including two 17th-century oil paintings and two 18th-century paintings valued at $147,500. But L.A. …
Judge finds sufficient evidence to hold over Fullerton cops Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli for trial. The beating of Kelly Thomas was shown for the first time during this week's hearing.
Two Fullerton police officers were ordered today to stand trial for the beating death of schizophrenic transient Kelly Thomas. Officer Manuel Anthony Ramos, 38, is charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, while Cpl Jay Cicinelli, 40, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and excessive force in the beating last July 5 at the Fullerton Transportation Center. The 37-year-old homeless man died five days later when his family took him off life support. The 38-year-old Ramos, a 10-year Fullerton police veteran, is free on $1 million bail, one of the highest ever posted in Orange County. Cicinelli, 42, is free on $25,000 bail. They are both on unpaid administrative leave. Ramos faces a potential sentence of 15 years to …
8:55 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
As a Advocate I feel all the Police Officers involved in the situation are just as equally responsible for his death. for one the officers present could have prevented such brute force the fact is man was unarmed no such force should have been used. there are non lethal methods so their claim is hog wash this truly makes it harder for those who truly serve and protect in all communities more ›
The San Juan Capistrano teacher appears on the Today show to tell her story for the first time. Then the show reunites her with two of her rescuers.
Kelli Groves, the San Juan Capistrano teacher whose car dangled off a Santa Barbara bridge for hours in a January rescue that made headlines around the world, spoke for the first time publicly Tuesday on “Today.” “I could not see either one of them,” Groves said of her two daughters, ages 10 and 10 weeks, who were also trapped in the borrowed BMW, hardly recognizable as it clung to a guardrail, more off than on the bridge. Watch the video here. Groves is a teacher at Del Obispo Elementary, where her daughter Sage also attends. She was on maternity leave after having Mylo. The threesome was headed to visit the mission at San Luis Obispo for Sage’s fourth-grade mission project. That’s when suddenly, just south of Buellton, a driver of a big …
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12:27 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Yes, the story does identify the accident site as just south of Buellton. I went there personally in February. But we're so far south here in Orange County, that Santa Barbara is the nearest reference point for our readers. See this story http://sanjuancapistrano.patch.com/articles/the-untold-story-of-the-crash-that-made-headlines-around-the-world for all the details. Thanks for stopping by! :-) more ›
Why was a man on a Harley Davidson wearing a skeleton mask and carrying a holstered weapon?
This must have turned some heads. A man on a Harley Davidson was spotted wearing a skeleton mask, a gray uniform with red shoulder patches and a gun belt with a holstered weapon at the Alicia/Marguerite intersection at 4:19 p.m. Thursday. The caller told police he looked a little suspicious. Here are more items from yesterday's police blotter: THURSDAY 7:41 p.m. Lost Property, 27400 block Camden: Someone recovered a lost or stolen wallet. 6:37 p.m. Assist Outside Agency, 26800 block La Alameda: A 24-year-old woman took "a lot of sleeping pills with a lot of alcohol" and was unconscious, according to a caller. 4:02 p.m. Suspicious Person/Circumstances, The Shops at Mission Viejo: Five men were seen trying door handles of vehicles on the …
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"I heard her take her last breath," witness tells grand jury in newly released transcripts about the Salon Meritage slayings.
Moments after a shooting rampage inside the Seal Beach beauty salon where his ex-wife worked, a "very calm'' gunman shot his final victim in the parking lot before driving away, a witness to Orange County's worst mass killing told a grand jury, according to transcripts released Thursday. Kenneth Caleb, a regular at Patty's Place restaurant next to Salon Meritage, stared through a ``chaotic scene'' last Oct. 12 to see Scott Evans Dekraai in the parking lot about 6 feet away. ``Everybody is running but this one gentleman, and at first when I looked at him, I thought he was a derelict and he just didn't understand what was going on, and he was putting himself in harm,'' Caleb told the grand jury in January. ``He had zero expression on his …
2:43 pm on Sunday, May 6, 2012
Uncheck the box for email from now on.. problem solved! Get some cheese with that "whine"... and start thinking of those killed.. .this news is important....transripts not allowed... considering there could be pivitol evidence that will prove he was not brain washed but had good intent prior and knew what he was in for when he walked into that salon that very day in Oct. I would imagine if those … more ›
Police say they found a syringe in the woman's apartment.
A 29-year-old woman was arrested after deputies found her 3-year-old daughter wandering around a parking lot crying for her mother in Mission Viejo, a sheriff's spokesman said today. Milanya Sergei Mundell was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail on suspicion of child endangerment and being under the influence of a controlled substance, said Jim Amormino of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Deputies found the girl about 9:40 p.m. Wednesday in an apartment complex parking lot on California Court, Amormino said. The tot had been wandering around crying out for her mother, he said. Deputies knocked on doors for about 20 minutes before finding Mundell's apartment. The front door was open, but the bedroom door was locked, according to …
3:52 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
I have a three year old son and to think of him wondering crying for me breaks my heart. What is wrong with people. We were at my daughters softball game and he wondered 10 feet from me and because he never does that my heart sank for a second and my sis started crying. Anything could have happened to that little one. Ugh, it kills me to think about what could have, poor little bug.... Hopefully … more ›
Police arrested a former student for allegedly stealing wallets, backpacks from a local high school band room.
Surveillance video led police to an arrest near Mission Viejo High Tuesday after students' backpacks, wallets and other possessions were stolen from the school band room. Around 6:30 p.m. Monday, someone was caught on tape entering the unlocked band room and stealing student items, police Sgt. Sandra Kirsch said. The thief probably didn't know he was on camera the whole time. A school resource officer checked the surveillance tapes and recognized former student Kyrise Rowe, 18, Kirsch said. Rowe was arrested the next day at 2:54 p.m. in the Taco Bell on the 25000 block of Chrisanta Drive, Rowe said. "When the deputy told Rowe about the surveillance cameras, Rowe admitted to stealing the items," Kirsch said. All the items were recovered and…
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A man in Mission Viejo was arrested for carrying an imitation Glock 23 disguised as the real thing
What would you do if you spotted someone carrying a handgun? An employee at TJ Maxx noticed a black handgun in the waistband of a customer Tuesday around 8 p.m., Police Sgt. Sandra Kirsch said. The customer, Gulled Mohamed Omar, 21, left the store but stayed in the area. Deputies detained and searched him. But what they found wasn't a real gun, Kirsch said. Instead Omar was carrying an imitation of a Glock 23 handgun concealed under his shirt. The gun originally had color indicating it was fake, but someone had scraped it off, Kirsch said. Omar was arrested and taken to jail for altering an imitation handgun, a misdemeanor, the sergeant said.
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1:04 pm on Friday, May 4, 2012
As much as it is our right to carry guns, it is ignorant to treat even airsoft and toy guns with disrespect. If you are serious about handguns and want to properly know how to operate and treat one, I highly suggest a course that can found locally at Shield Tactical. More information can be found at their website at http://shieldtactical.com/ more ›
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10:24 am on Friday, May 11, 2012
Good job! more ›