SANTA ANA – District Attorney Tony Rackauckas led hundreds of crime victims and supporters and law-enforcement officials along Civic Center Drive as the 4th Annual Victims' March & Rally began. He is taking the group from his office to the Old... »
ANAHEIM – The work of an Anaheim police sergeant toward eliminating "street-level" prostitution has earned him recognition by the popular crime-prevention TV show "America's Most Wanted." Sgt. Craig Friesen, who oversees the vice unit, in late 2010... »
SEAL BEACH – FBI and local police are looking for a bank robber who claimed who used what he claimed was a pipe bomb during a robbery Friday afternoon, authorities said. The robber showed bank employees a handgun inside the U.S. Bank, officials... »
Daniel Rojas and Juan Leon walked into Budget Mart in Santa Ana on Dec.17, 2005 with the plan to rob it, according to prosecutors. Leon asked to see a knife that was on display, then Rojas grabbed the knife and stabbed the store employee in the... »
Authorities have been searching for Gabriel Renee Melendez for 19 years, a man accused of shooting and killing a man while he was driving on the 91 freeway. Melendez, who was 18 at the time, is suspected of sitting in the front passenger seat of a... »
Police are searching for Antonio Lopez Cervantes, wanted on suspicion of a killing in Anaheim in 1993. Cervantes also has gone by the name Ignacio Contreras, according to the Anaheim Police Department. Cervantes is 42 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall... »
HUNTINGTON BEACH – A man convicted of stabbing a retired Los Angeles deputy is now wanted on suspicion of stabbing a friend. Luke Austin Artinger, who pleaded guilty in January 2009 to battery and two counts of vandalism, was featured Friday on the... »
Federal and local law enforcement officials are asking for the public's help in identifying a prolific bank robber known as the "snowboarder bandit." Authorities believe the serial robber has hit at least eight banks throughout Orange County,... »
CYPRESS – Police are asking for the public's help to identify a man seen taking pictures of a woman in a Cypress College restroom. The man was seen either taking photos or video of a woman, according to school officials. Surveillance cameras in the... »
Authorities still are searching for Roger Alan Giese, a former voice coach accused of sexually assaulting a boy during a four-year period. Giese is charged with five counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14, lewd acts upon a child between 14 and 15... »
SANTA ANA – The line to get into the Central Justice Center through the front door stretched out onto Civic Center Drive Thursday morning. That's because one of the two metal detectors that screen all who enter was down, squeezing attorneys,... »
Jesus Canales is wanted in connection with the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy in Santa Ana, authorities said. Canales, a suspected gang member, and another man are believed to have approached a group of people in the 300 block of East Washington... »
SANTA ANA – Three of the four Occupy Santa Ana protesters cited by police for camping in the Civic Center had their cases closed out on Tuesday when they pled no contest to lesser charges offered by the prosecutor. One of the protesters, however,... »
Local and federal authorities are asking for the public's help to identify a man who robbed a Fullerton bank with a note. The robbery occurred Dec. 23, 2011 at a Chase Bank branch in the 3300 block of Yorba Linda Boulevard, authorities said. The man... »
SANTA ANA – Police are partnering with John Walsh's nationally known "America's Most Wanted" show in hopes of catching a man wanted on suspicion of attempting to kill two police officers and a man suspected of nearly killing a father last... »
