A massive house fire began at about 8 p.m. at the 1000 block of W. Washington Avenue, in Santa Ana’s Washington Square Neighborhood, according to the O.C. Register.
Thirty OCFA and Orange firefighters fought the blaze according to the OCDA.
A man upset over a recent divorce burned down the house, according to ABC News.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, February 27, 2017
Attorney General Announces Crime Reduction and Public Safety Task Force
Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the formation of the U.S. Department of Justice Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety
The Task Force was formed pursuant to the President’s Executive Order on a Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety and will be chaired by the Deputy Attorney General. Task Force members will be drawn from relevant Department components, and will include the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Director of the FBI and the Director of the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS). Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
Advisory: UPDATE – Detectives Take Suspect Wanted In Six Bank Robberies In Custody
– UPDATE –
Joseph Anthony Perez (27) Santa Ana – Homeless
Suspect Perez was booked into the Santa Ana Police Department Jail for 2 Bank Robberies (Santa Ana), 4 Attempted Bank Robberies (3 in Santa Ana – 1 in Fountain Valley).
He is being held on a No Bail Probation Hold under the Post Release Community Supervision Program (AB-109). Detectives will be submitting the case to the Orange County District Attorney for prosecution. Continue reading
Santa Ana bank robbery suspect arrested
Santa Ana Police Department
Advisory: Detectives Take Suspect Wanted In Six Bank Robberies In Custody
Suspect: Joseph Anthony Perez (27)
This is the sixth in a series of six bank robbery incidents in Santa Ana and Fountain Valley. At 3:13 p.m., the suspect entered the Bank of the West. After providing the demand note, the teller gave the suspect an unspecified amount of money along with a tracking device. After the suspect left the location authorities immediately began tracking the signal. Continue reading
On Saturday, February 25, 2017, at about 5:30 p.m. SAPD police officers responded to 700 South Townsend Street, just northeast of Jerome Park, after receiving multiple calls of about a shooting. When officers arrived they located a 17 year old Hispanic male with a gunshot wound to the lower body. The victim was taken to a local hospital for his injuries, according to SAPD Case # 17-05222.
This shooting happened in Santa Ana’s Ward 4, which is represented by Councilman David Benavides. Continue reading
The Santa Ana School Police Department declared a lockout at McFadden Intermediate and Jefferson Elementary today at 3:08 p.m. as the SAPD was pursuing a criminal suspect. Continue reading
Robert Ruben Ornelas, a former SAUSD school teacher was sentenced Monday to 190 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting two girls during trips to the Philippines, according to the O.C. Register.
Fortunately U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney dropped the hammer on Ornelas, giving him the maximum punishment available. Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
Crime Type: PC 211 Robbery/PC 245 Assault with a Deadly Weapon
Location: Nordstrom Main Place Mall- 2828 N. Main Street
Synopsis: On 02/16/2017, the above suspects attempted to take items from Nordstrom without paying. The store’s loss prevention officer approached Suspect #1 and a struggle broke out. Suspect #2 saw the struggle between the loss prevention officer and his accomplice and he attempted to intervene. Suspect #2 pulled a knife out of his pocket and attempted to stab the loss prevention officer. The stolen items were recovered before both suspects fled in a maroon 2000-2005 Ford Mustang. Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
On Wednesday evening, 02-22-17, the Santa Ana Police Department’s Vice and Narcotic Unit conducted an enforcement program targeting the prostitution related activity along the Harbor Blvd. corridor.
The detectives focused their efforts on female offenders soliciting themselves, loitering in the area for the purpose of prostitution. Continue reading
CMPD HAS IDENTIFIED HOMICIDE SUSPECT IN 1997 COLD CASE RAPE-MURDER OF 26-YEAR-OLD FEMALE VICTIM
Case will be submitted to the Orange County District Attorney
COSTA MESA, Calif. – The Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) has identified the suspect in the 1997 cold case rape-murder of 26-year-old Sunny Adrienne Sudweeks. The identity of the suspect has been unknown until recently and after extensive follow-up investigation and exhausting all avenues to capture the suspect, CMPD hopes to bring the suspect to justice by making his identity known. Felipe Vianney Hernandez Tellez, 43, has been identified as the homicide suspect who raped and murdered Sudweeks in 1997. Continue reading
Costa Mesa Police Department
Advisory: COSTA MESA POLICE DEPARTMENT TO CONDUCT SOBRIETY CHECKPOINT
COSTA MESA, Calif. – As part of the Costa Mesa Police Department’s (CMPD) continued commitment to reducing injury and fatalities caused by impaired drivers, a sobriety checkpoint will be conducted by CMPD’s Traffic Unit Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, from 8:00 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. within the city limits.
The checkpoint will be clearly marked and vehicles will be selected for further screening on a pre-set basis to ensure objectivity. Motorists will be greeted and given information about impaired driving. Driver’s licenses will be checked and trained officers will direct suspected impaired drivers to a secondary area for further evaluation. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect jail, license suspension, and insurance increases, as well as fines, fees, Driving Under the Influence (DUI) classes, other expenses that can exceed $10,000. Motorists can expect a slight delay driving through the checkpoint. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
Case # 15CF2502
Date: February 22, 2017
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A driver under the influence of narcotics was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in state prison yesterday for hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian sitting on a sidewalk. Ramon Horta, 56, Santa Ana, pleaded guilty to one felony count of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence while intoxicated with a sentencing enhancement for fleeing the scene of the crime. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution and his driver’s license was suspended for three years.
At approximately 1:10 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2015, Horta drove a van while under the influence of narcotics, traveling at approximately 30 mph while approaching the intersection of McFadden Avenue and Cedar Street in Santa Ana. The defendant slowly veered the van to his right and drove over a curb onto the sidewalk. The defendant hit and ran over 24-year-old Marcello Bisarello, who was sitting on the sidewalk. Continue reading
There was a commotion in Santa Ana today as the body of Keith Boyer, a 25-year veteran of the Whittier Police Department, arrived at the O.C. Coroner’s office, located at 1071 W. Santa Ana Blvd. Our readers reported that police from various agencies turned out to honor Boyer as a police helicopter flew overhead.
Earlier this morning dozens of police officers from different agencies formed two lines to honor Boyer, as his body was wheeled out between them and placed into the Orange County Coroner’s white Chrysler van at the UCI Medical Center in Orange, according to the O.C. Register. Continue reading
There is a reason police officers hate responding to domestic disputes. They never quite know what they are going to run into. Case in point – Tam Hyunh, a 20-year old man, was arrested this Sunday just after 6 p.m. at a home at the 9700 block of Acacia Ave., in Garden Grove, after he attacked and stabbed a man and a woman with a sword, according to the O.C. Register.
Reportedly Hyunh attacked the man, who was not identified, with a sword, in front of the house and family members had to separate them. A woman was stabbed in the leg during the melee. Continue reading
The family of Jamie De Castilla Campos, an 18-year old alleged Santa Ana gang member who was shot and killed in a homicide incident that occurred at around 10:40 p.m. last Sunday in an alley in the 600 block of East Pine Street, is trying to raise the money needed to pay for his funeral.
The SAPD suspects that Campos was killed during a botched drug deal. Continue reading