On Monday, June 3, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released its Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for all of 2012. Date are voluntarily submitted by local law enforcement agencies. The tables released with the report include one listing numbers for cities with a population greater than 100,000. The largest city in our coverage area [...]

The following information was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Emphasis added.) After a nearly four-week trial, a federal jury in Sacramento returned guilty verdicts against Charles Head, 36, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, (formerly of Los Angeles), and Jeremy Michael “Mike” Head, 33, of Huntington Beach, United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced. Both were convicted [...]

The following information was released by the Orange County District Attorney. A woman and her son were sentenced on Friday for robbing and murdering a man after luring him from a nightclub to a motel room with the promise of sex. Leticia Carrasco, 52, Buena Park, was convicted by a jury Jan. 31, 2013, of [...]

The following information was released by the Orange County District Attorney. A former police officer working as an unlicensed private investigator was convicted and sentenced today for defrauding his clients. Kevin Michael Sianez, 56, Fountain Valley, pleaded guilty to a court offer to 17 felony counts of grand theft by false pretense, 11 felony counts [...]

The following information was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI announced on Wednesday, April 3, that the Orange County Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (OCRCFL) has earned international accreditation from the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB), the world’s largest forensic science accrediting body. Accreditation demonstrates to OCRCFL customers and [...]

The following information was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A Turkish citizen who resides in Orange County was sentenced this morning to five years in federal prison after admitting she provided material support to terrorists by wiring money to Pakistan to help fund attacks against American military personnel. Oytun Ayse Mihalik, 40, of [...]

The following information was released by the Orange County District Attorney. A man faces trial today for robbing and murdering a man, whom his co-defendant mother lured from a nightclub to a motel room with the promise of sex. Noel Carrasco, 26, Buena Park, is charged with one felony count of special circumstances murder in [...]

The following information was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A federal jury has convicted a Buena Park doctor for participating in a health care fraud scheme involving unnecessary procedures and prescriptions that led to Medicare paying out nearly $3 million on fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment and nutritional supplies. Following a five-day [...]

The following information was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A Long Beach man was arrested yesterday and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on federal sex trafficking charges that allege he worked with a previously charged defendant to coerce women to work as prostitutes. Marquis Monte Horn, also known as “Taylor,” 34, [...]

Editor’s note: this editorial is divided in parts across days due to its length. Part 1: introduction and background Part 2: front-page article Part 3: editorial Part 4: conclusion This is part 3 of a four part editorial in response to a front-page article and editorial in the Feb. 6 edition of the News Enterprise. [...]

The following information was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Federal authorities have arrested five people allegedly involved in a “builder bailout” real estate scheme that fraudulently purchased more than 100 condominium units around the country with mortgages that mostly went into default, resulting in foreclosures and millions of dollars in losses. The [...]

The following information was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On the morning of Nov. 30, members from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI responded to a report of a bank robbery at the U.S. Bank, 2270 Pacific Coast Highway in Lomita, California. The suspect was described as a black or [...]