Photo by “Stop Abusing People’s Derecho’s“
There was a drive by shooting in Santa Ana yesterday, at Birch and Chestnut, that went unreported by local media.
A resident said that she heard about 7 shots fired. Bullet casings and evidence markers were on the ground. Reportedly a few buildings in front were also hit by bullets, according to local photographer and community activist Igmar Rodas’s Facebook page. Continue reading
Two thugs attacked a 59-year-old man on Thursday night, at around 10:45 p.m., robbing him of his satchel, at the 3700 block of South Greenville Street, in Santa Ana, according to the O.C. Register.
The man was rushed by two males who were wearing dark clothing, according to the SAPD.
The victim was fortunate to escape from the suspects however he later realized that his satchel was gone. Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
Advisory: Robbery Suspect Arrested After Anonymous Caller Sees Suspect Vehicle Shown In TV News story
Arrested: Heriberto Escalera Contreras (36) Santa Ana
Charges: Outstanding Warrant for Burglary, Possession of Narcotic (Methamphetamine), Bringing Narcotics into a Jail Facility and Robbery
Update/Arrest: On 6/18/15 at 4:50 P.M., officers responded to the Mobile Gas Station Edinger/Main after an anonymous citizen called to report that the suspect vehicle that was shown on TV news of the robbery that occurred in the 7-Eleven parking lot (2242 S. Grand) on 6/15/15, was currently parked in the lot. Continue reading
Another day another ridiculous shooting in Santa Ana. This time two men with no gang connections were badly wounded as they were shot while they worked on a car in their driveway at the 1300 block of South Rita Way, in Santa Ana, at around 9:15 p.m. on Thursday evening, according to the O.C. Register.
One victim, identified him as 21-year-old Juan Seneseros, was shot in the back. The other victim, a 26-year-old man was shot in the upper and lower torso and was in serious condition. Continue reading
Violence has been growing in Santa Ana all year long but today we hit a new low as a man attacked another man with a hammer after they had a disagreement on Thursday evening about recyclables, according to the O.C. Register.
SAPD police officers interviewed the victim at an unnamed local hospital at 5:30 pm, where he was being treated for a 1-inch cut on his head and an ankle injury. Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
The Santa Ana Police Department will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License checkpoint on Friday, June 19, 2015. It will begin at 9:00PM and is scheduled to conclude at 3:00AM. It will be conducted in the area of 1000 E. Fourth Street, in the City of Santa Ana. Continue reading
The suspected robber is wearing a blue shirt in this security camera shot
A 9-year-old girl named Genesis Ramos, stopped a would-be robber from taking her mom’s wallet on Monday morning, while she and her 13-year-old sister Ingrid were sitting in their car at a 7-Eleven parking lot on Grand Ave. and East Warner, according to the O.C. Register.
A man pulled up next to the girls in the parking lot and then opened an unlocked door and grabbed a wallet that had been left on the seat by their mother, who was inside the store using an ATM so she could buy donuts for the girls before heading to school.
Genesis, a fourth-grader, jumped out of the car and struggled with the man, who all the while kept trying to close his driver’s side car door. The man insisted he didn’t take anything before finally relenting and letting go of the wallet. Continue reading
Ricardo Ray Alcala, a disgusting Santa Ana gang banger who shot and killed Edgar Sura, a 20-year-old Santa Ana phlebotomy student, on Oct. 19, 2012, laughed as his victim begged for his life – and now the cholo has paid the price as he has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole, according to the O.C. Register.
Alcala’s fellow gang bangers and co-defendants, Isaac Angel Martinez, 27, and Jeamy Beatriz Melendez, 25, also accepted plea deals Friday and they were sentenced to 26- and six-year prison terms.
Alcala is such a pig that he returned to the scene of the shooting after a makeshift memorial was set up in Sura’s memory. Continue reading
While our city leaders keep saying that crime is going down in Santa Ana there is at least one local couple that would disagree. A married couple in their 40’s, was walking near 17th and Spurgeon, in Santa Ana’s Ward 3, when shots were fired at them at about 9:11 p.m., according to the O.C. Register.
The husband hit the ground when he was shot at but as it turned out he was not struck by any bullets. He was not at the scene when the SAPD police officers arrived. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE
Case # 12HF3538
Date: June 9, 2015
SANTA ANA – A former volunteer Sunday school teacher is scheduled to face trial tomorrow for molesting seven minor boys and possessing and distributing child pornography. Christopher Bryan McKenzie Sr., 51, Costa Mesa, is charged with 15 felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14 years old, one felony count of attempted lewd acts upon a child under 14 years old, four felony counts of using a minor for sex acts, one felony count of attempting to use a minor for sex acts, two felony counts of distributing pornography to a minor, and one felony count of possession of child pornography with sentencing enhancement allegations for substantial sexual conduct with a child and committing lewd acts upon a child under 14 years old against more than one victim. If convicted, McKenzie faces a maximum sentence of 234 years to life in state prison. Opening statements are scheduled to begin tomorrow, June 10, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. in Department C-40, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana.
At the time of the crimes McKenzie worked as a swimming pool cleaner. The defendant was a volunteer Sunday school teacher at Christ Church by the Sea in Newport Beach between 2004 and 2006 and at Rock Harbor Church in Costa Mesa. Continue reading
Billie Joe Harris, Jr., a 53-year-old Santa Ana pest control company employee, was sentenced on Tuesday to a prison term of 210 months for distributing child pornography on the Internet, according to the OC Weekly, which also reported that the sentence was extra harsh because the felon had already been convicted in a 1987 case of lewd and lascivious contact with a minor.
According to court documents, during an online conversation with an undercover FBI agent, Harris provided a password for locked folders containing child pornography in his online Gigatribe account. Federal authorities described Gigatribe as an online platform that is considered a “haven” for traders of child pornography. Among the images and videos the agent accessed in Harris’ account was one involving a “prepubescent minor,” according to the O.C. Register. Continue reading
It turned out to be a wild afternoon in Santa Ana on Monday as police chased a man and a woman in a car from the intersection of Tustin and Franzen Avenues in Santa Ana through Garden Grove and Anaheim and then back to Santa Ana. The driver was finally arrested at the 2600 block of Greenbrier Street, at the corner of Bristol Street and Park Lane, in Santa Ana, where the driver was arrested, according to the O.C. Register.
The incident began about 1:30 p.m. when a witness reported hearing nine shots fired by the occupant of a gray Cadillac CTS at a Mazda SUV near North Tustin and Franzen avenues, a Santa Ana Police Department watch commander said, according to KTLA. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE
Case # 10CF2478
Date: June 5, 2015
SANTA ANA – A woman was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for the special circumstances murder of a man by driving over his head after following him home from a Hawaiian Gardens Casino to rob him of $10,000 in gambling winnings. Barbara Ann Hamel, 51, Long Beach, was found guilty by a jury March 30, 2015, of one felony count of special circumstances murder for committing a murder during a robbery, two felony counts of second degree robbery, and one felony count of attempted second degree robbery.
Hamel previously pleaded guilty in this case on Dec. 13, 2013, and was expected to be sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison on Feb. 21, 2014. During the sentencing the court allowed Hamel to withdraw her guilty plea based on the defendant’s request to have evidence in this case further analyzed. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE
Case # C-94882
Date: June 4, 2015
*Victims were innocent men playing basketball at Santa Ana High School
SANTA ANA – The Board of Parole Hearings (Panel), California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denied parole for three years June 2, 2015, for a criminal street gang member convicted of the shooting murder of one man and causing the permanent injury of three other men in a van to enhance his gang status. Uciel Murgo, 42, is currently being held at Chuckawalla State Prison in Blythe. Murgo pleaded guilty June 7, 1993, to one felony count of second degree murder and eight felony counts of attempted murder with sentencing enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury during the commission of a crime and the personal use of a firearm. On July 30, 1993, Murgo was sentenced to 20 years to life in state prison. This case was originally prosecuted by Senior Deputy District Attorney Mark Sevigny.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Jim Mendelson and the victim’s next of kin attended the hearing at the prison to oppose Murgo’s parole. Continue reading
Irvine Police Department Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PRESS RELEASE: 06-06-2015
Subject: Homicide Victim Identified
Contact : Farrah Emami, Public Information Officer, Irvine Police Department, 949-724-7112, femami@cityofirvine.org
Irvine, CA – The victim in a homicide case being investigated by the Irvine Police Department (IPD) has been identified as 19-year-old Octavio Jesus Alcala of Santa Ana.
On the morning of June 5, 2015, employees arriving to work at a construction site in the area of Wolf Trail and Orchard Hills located a deceased adult male, later identified as Alcala. The victim was located face-down in a remote, graded construction area that does not have any buildings. The construction workers called 911 and IPD responded to the scene. Continue reading