John William Zelinski
John William Zelinski, a 62-year-old man, pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter for fatally stabbing a homeless man in Santa Ana in 1984, according to the O.C. Register.
Zelinski was originally looking at a murder charge and a sentencing enhancement for the use of a deadly weapon, but he accepted a plea deal from prosecutors. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
Case # 17CF1275
June 8, 2017
MAN EXTRADITED FROM ARIZONA AND CHARGED WITH 1984 COLD CASE MURDER OF TRANSIENT MAN IN SANTA ANA
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was extradited from Arizona and charged with the 1984 cold case murder of a transient man in Santa Ana.
Defendant: John William Zelinski, 61, Tucson, Arizona
Charges: Continue reading
Orange County District Attorney Press Release
For Immediate Release, Case # 13CF2925: October 24, 2013
SANTA ANA – A mother is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for special circumstances murder for poisoning her two children after losing custody of them to her former husband. Marilyn Kay Edge, 42, Scottsdale, Ariz., is charged with two felony counts of murder with special circumstance enhancements for committing multiple murders and murder by poisoning. If convicted, she faces a minimum sentence of life in state prison without the possibility of parole. Edge is eligible for the death penalty, and the District Attorney will make this determination at a later date. She is being held without bail and is scheduled for continued arraignment tomorrow, Oct. 25, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in Department CJ-1, Central Jail, Santa Ana. Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
Advisory: Santa Ana Police Murder case update
This is updated information for the double murder at the Hampton Suites 9-14-2013. Arrested/Booked 2 counts murder – Marilyn Edge 42 Scottsdale Arizona. Continue reading
City of Santa Ana, Downtown Orange County
Community Alert: City of Santa Ana Poised to Hire New City Manager
David Cavazos Served as City Manager for Phoenix; Helped Trim Budget, Revitalized Downtown
SANTA ANA, CA (August 1, 2013) – The Santa Ana City Council is unanimously poised to hire a city manager with over 25 years of experience and a proven record of success. The top candidate, David Cavazos, who in his current capacity as the City Manager of Phoenix, trimmed the city’s budget, streamlined its permitting process for businesses and helped revitalize its downtown area, is being considered for the city manager position.
The City Council will review and vote on his employment package on Monday, August 5, 2013, at the next City Council meeting. If approved, Cavazos will take over as Santa Ana’s top executive in mid-October. Continue reading
Join us for a night of education on the issues affecting our people in Arizona. Learn of the recent attacks on our people in Arizona with racist laws like SB 1070. This night will be dedicated to fundraise for our ongoing activities in Arizona.
Time: Saturday, April 2 · 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: Centro Cultural De Mexico 310 W 5th Street Santa Ana, CA 92701
$5 entrance
We will have posters, t-shirts and other items for sale.
All funds will be used for our ongoing activities in Arizona.
The event will include:
* A brief introduction to the racist laws in Arizona
* How white supremacy is being legalized
* Mexica Movement Videos in Arizona
* Poetry
* Naui videos on Arizona
Click here to RSVP on Facebook.
Mexican-bashing Joe Arpaio, the Sheriff in Arizona’s Maricopa County, probably thought he was in for a mellow evening tonight, at the Nixon Library. But Santa Ana resident Naui Tetl, showed up with his trusty video camera. The result is an instant classic, as Naui reminds Arpaio that he is an “Italian Anchor Baby!”
Arpaio was there to speak at an event put on by some commentator named Phil Liberatore. Click here to read about the event.
Arpaio was accompanied by failed O.C. Sheriff candidate Bill Hunt, who has apparently grown a “porn-stache.” Hunt was blown out of the water last year, by O.C. Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, after he resorted to racism in his sad campaign – and after he brought Arpaio to the O.C. to campaign for him. Mission not accomplished! Hunt now appears to be a rent-a-cop. Sad.
It appears now that Jared Lee Loughner, the deranged 22 year old shooter in Tucson who killed six people on Saturday, was a Democrat. But what drove him was not partisan politics, but rather anti-government rhetoric. That sure sounds familiar here in Santa Ana, a city dominated by Democrats.
The last election happened in November, but Alfredo Amezcua, the failed Santa Ana Mayoral candidate, has not been able to accept his loss gracefully. He has continued to openly attack Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido and the Santa Ana City Council. And many of his supporters continue to insist that Pulido somehow stole the election. That is just plain nuts!
Amezcua held a poorly attended “Vigil of Discontent” when the victorious Santa Ana City Council members were sworn in. And, as we wrote about on this blog, Amezcua joined forces with the Los Amigos of Anaheim this week in a bizarre press conference that was loaded with unfounded innuendo and slanderous, hateful statements against Pulido, the City Council and SAPD Chief Paul Walters. The anger was palpable. Looking around that room I saw more than a few unhinged characters who, in hindsight, could very well end up doing something regrettable.
The Democrats will try to pin the Arizona shooting on the GOP – and in truth some Republicans, such as Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, not to mention Rush Limbaugh, have blood on their hands. They spend every hour ripping the government and attacking the Democrats. But if the Tucson shooter was indeed a Democrat, well then that party has to take ownership of this disaster too.
I could definitely see this same thing happening here in Santa Ana, where we have Latinos attacking Latinos and Democrats attacking Democrats. Amezcua and his followers have fed the fires and all they are doing is creating an angry mob – they are not solving anything with this ridiculous insurrection of theirs.
Media reports indicate that Loughner’s favorite books included Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifest. Many of Amezcua’s backers often post comments that allude to communist ideology.
And Amezcua’s backers also include a lot of right-wing residents of Santa Ana. Loughner often cited Republican spin, such as focusing on the Constitution, property rights and “treasonous laws.” The same anger Amezcua continues to fan on the left has been simmering on the local right too, for a long time.
I hope the Democratic Party of Orange County, and the O.C. labor leaders, will step in and have a talk with Amezcua before this deranged and bitter movement of his results in bloodshed. The fact is, he lost in November. It is past time for him to move on. If he wants to run again he may do so in 2012. Until then it is highly irresponsible for him to continue to rant and rave. I would much rather see him offering positive solutions, but that is something he didn’t do during his campaign. I cannot imagine he might actually have any good ideas now.
Don’t forget by the way that Amezcua’s clients over the years have been the very worst gang bangers and drug dealers in Santa Ana. Loughner, born September 10, 1988, had a court case involving possession of drug paraphernalia in 2007, according to an online news report. Imagine if one of Amezcua’s clients decides to pay back a favor to him by doing something awful to one of our local elected officials? God forbid…
The 2010 Major League Baseball All Star Game arrives with much fanfare today in Anaheim, where Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz won the Home Run Derby yesterday.
I expect that some of Orange County’s wealthiest elite will be there, along with folks who bought season tickets and a lot of out of town visitors. There will also be protesters there.
Activists will be there today to protest next year’s MLB All Star Game, which is scheduled to be in Phoenix, Arizona, home of the dreadful SB 1070 racial profiling law.
MLB Commissioner Bud Selig predictably issued a statement indicating that MLB has no intention of moving the game elsewhere. However, many of his own players and managers disagree with that notion.
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UPDATE: The Santa Ana 8 have all been released from jail!
Santa Ana students engaged in a civil disobedience action with the purpose of shutting down all activity in the Santa Ana Federal Detention Center, today.
At 10 am eight students blocked the driveway entrance to the detention center where buses full of detained immigrants enter and exit. Students sat down in the middle of the street and locked their arms using lockboxes so as to not be removed by the police or I.C.E. agents. Soon afterwards a large crowd of 300 supporters began to gather around the protestors declaring, “We are all Arizona!”
The protesters are not releasing their identities or carrying identifications in solidarity with undocumented people who are discriminated against and dehumanized because of discriminatory legislation and policies such as SB1070 in Arizona and Costa Mesa’s “Rule of Law.” Continue reading
How did Pulido not know this guy was in town on April 23?
Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido deserves kudos for leading the Santa Ana City Council tonight in passing a motion calling for immigration reform, and slamming the racial profiling bill passed in Arizona recently.
That said, during the meeting Pulido allegedly said he did not know that his pal Mike Harrah hosted Bill Hunt and racist, corrupt Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, at Harrah’s restaurant, Original Mike’s, on April 23.
The Santa Ana Police Department conducted a DUI checkpoint right down the street from Original Mike’s the same evening. Continue reading
Has Mayor Pulido finally remembered his raza?
Can you believe it? Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido is standing up against the racial profiling bill in Arizona!
Pulido, along with Council Members Claudia Alvarez and Vince Sarmiento, has put an item on the agenda for Monday night’s City Council meeting in opposition to Arizona’s SB 1070. I am told that the City Council will also direct the City administration to not do business with any companies from Arizona.
The motion also asks the federal government for comprehensive immigration reform. Click here to download the City Council meeting agenda. Continue reading
Protesters showed up last night at Original Mike’s, in Santa Ana, to “welcome” corrupt, racist Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, as he appeared at a fundraiser for the lame Bill Hunt, who is running for Sheriff.
The video above was shot at the protest by Chris Xitco. Click here to see more of his videos. Continue reading
