Tag: crime

Supervisor Candidates Share Approaches to Orange County’s Top Issues

Orange County’s next supervisor will be elected March 9, ending a hotly-contested campaign to fill the Board of Supervisors’ vacant District 2 seat. Candidates include: former state senator John Moorlach, Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley, Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo, Newport Beach Councilmember Kevin Muldoon, and tax attorney Janet Rappaport. As voters prepare to make…


Man Found Fatally Wounded in Driveway of Home in Santa Ana

Police found a man fatally wounded in a driveway to a home in Santa Ana, authorities said March 6. Officers were dispatched at 11:26 p.m. Friday to the 1400 block of West Elder Drive in response to reports of a shooting victim and found the man suffering from gunshot wounds to the upper body, the…


Man Charged with Robberies in Irvine

SANTA ANA—A 49-year-old man was charged today with two robberies in Irvine, including an armed heist at a supermarket, and an aborted holdup at an Adidas store. Benjamin Robert Laubbacher is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail pending arraignment March 19 on two counts of robbery and one count each of attempted robbery and…


Gang Task Force Operation Conducted in Orange County

SANTA ANA—The Orange County Violent Gang Task Force was serving a number of federal and state warrants March 3 as part of an investigation targeting an Orange County-based street gang, according to the FBI’s Los Angeles field office. “The Orange County Violent Gang Task Force and its partners are executing twelve federal search warrants this…


Orange County Deputies Cleared in Laguna Niguel Shooting

The Orange County District Attorney’s office (OCDA) has vindicated two police officers who were under investigation for a fatal Laguna Niguel shooting. In a letter to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, OCDA Todd Spitzer said the deputies’ use of force was consistent with the law. The letter included a report prepared by Senior Deputy District Attorney Janine…


UCI Study Shows Upswing in Gunshot and Knife Wounds During Pandemic

ORANGE—University of California–Irvine (UCI) researchers led a study that shows that gunshot and knife wounds increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern California, but injuries from traffic crashes were down. UCI Health researchers reviewed 20,450 trauma patients who were treated at 11 hospitals across seven counties. The study, which the researchers say is the first…


Orange County Supervisor Candidates Discuss Public Safety

With the race for the Orange County Board of Supervisors’ second district seat less than two weeks away, The Epoch Times reached out to the five candidates to ask how they would act as supervisor on some of the county’s biggest concerns. Each candidate was asked, “How would you improve public safety?” Kevin Muldoon Newport Beach Mayor Pro Tem…


Man Dies from Stabbing at Hotel in Anaheim, Suspect in Custody

ANAHEIM—A man who was stabbed during an argument at a hotel in Anaheim Feb. 26 later died at a hospital. A suspect was in custody, police said. Officers responded just after midnight to the Clementine Hotel and Suites, 1700 S. Clementine Street near Disney Way, and found the victim, who was taken to a hospital…


Man Shot in Hollywood, French Bulldogs Owned by Lady Gaga Stolen

HOLLYWOOD—A search was under way Feb. 25 for the assailants who shot a dog-walker in Hollywood and made off with two French bulldogs owned by pop star Lady Gaga, who is offering a reward for the return of the animals. The shooting occurred about 9:40 p.m. Feb. 24 in the 1500 block of North Sierra…


Tustin Crash Kills 24-Year-Old Woman 

A 24-year-old Anaheim woman is dead following a Feb. 23 suspected impaired driving-related crash in Tustin. The woman was a passenger in a BMW sedan heading southbound on the 55 Freeway, just north of the I-5 freeway, California Highway Patrol (CHP) said. The car she was riding in crashed into the back of a Lexus SUV about 2:05…