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A snitch helped to convict a Santa Ana gangbanger of killing a teenager

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Jesus Canales, a 24-year-old man who gunned down a teenage rival gang member in Santa Ana and then fled to Mexico, where he was on the lam for five years, was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder, according to the O.C. Register.

Canales was charged on July 25, 2011, with one felony count of special circumstances first degree murder committed for a criminal street gang purpose and one felony count of street terrorism, with sentencing enhancements for criminal street gang activity and discharge of a firearm causing death.  Continue reading→

The Costa Mesa police are looking for a hit and run suspect who injured a cyclist today

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The victim of today’s hit and run accident

Costa Mesa Police Department

Advisory: CMPD seeking public’s help identifying driver in hit-and-run that left cyclist injured

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 20, 2018

COSTA MESA, Calif. – The Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) is seeking the public’s help identifying the driver involved in a hit-and-run that left a cyclist injured.

Today, March 20, 2018, at approximately 8:20 a.m., officers, along with the Costa Mesa Fire & Rescue, were dispatched to Bristol Street and Red Hill Avenue in response to a hit-and-run that left a cyclist on the roadway. The caller, who reported the incident, was with the 56-year-old male victim on the roadway when first responders arrived. Continue reading→

Giovanni Arreguin has been identified as the driver killed in a car accident in the Floral Park neighborhood this Saturday

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Giovanni Arreguin, 18-years-old, has been identified as the man who was killed early on Saturday, March 17, when his car ran into a tree after veering off the roadway in Santa Ana’s Floral Park Neighborhood, according to the OC Coroner.

Arreguin was driving an unidentified vehicle eastbound on Santa Clara Ave., from Heliotrope Ave., at about 2:40 a.m. when his vehicle left the roadway and ran into a tree located on the south side of the 600 block of W. Santa Clara Ave., according to the SAPD. Continue reading→

The SAPD arrested a 44-year-old gangbanger for possessing four guns, a grenade and possibly meth

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Santa Ana Police Department

Advisory: Gang Detectives Arrest Suspect For Possession of an Explosive Device, Four Handguns And Controlled Substance

Suspect Arrested: Gregorio Rojas (44) Santa Ana

On 3/19/18, at approximately 8:00 PM, Gang Detectives conducted a traffic stop of an occupied vehicle in the area of 2900 W. 1st Street. When officers asked the driver if he had anything illegal the driver advised he had a hand grenade in the vehicle. The detectives observed an item, which appeared to be a modified pineapple grenade, on the front passenger seat. Continue reading→

The SAPD is dealing with a hand grenade found during a traffic stop tonight

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Are traffic stops ever routine in Santa Ana? What should have been a routine traffic stop this evening turned into a nightmare involving a live hand grenade, according to the O.C. Register.

Tonight’s shenanigans began as Santa Ana police officers conducted a traffic stop near West First and North Fairview Streets, at 7:58 p.m. When the officers asked one driver if he had anything illegal in his car he casually told them that he had a hand grenade in his car.  Continue reading→

A driver crashed into a tree and died in the Floral Park neighborhood early this morning

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Santa Ana Police Department

Advisory: SAPD Investigation – Single-vehicle Fatal Collision- 600 Block West Santa Clara Ave

Decedent- John Doe

On Saturday 03/17/18 at 0240 hours, officers responded to a report of a single-vehicle collision at 600 W. Santa Clara Ave.

Based on the investigation, a silver Toyota Camry was traveling eastbound on Santa Clara Av. from Heliotrope Av. when the driver veered off the roadway and struck a tree located on the south side of the street. Continue reading→

Serial rapist who attacked a woman at the MainPlace Mall going to state prison for 56 years

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Case # 13CF3891

Date: March 15, 2018

MAN SENTENCED TO 56 YEARS IN STATE PRISON FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING TWO WOMEN IN PARKING LOTS AND KIDNAPPING AND ROBBING A THIRD

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to 56 years and eight months in state prison today for sexually assaulting two women and kidnapping and robbing a third in mall, fast food, and church parking lots.

Defendant: Raymond Martin Boykin, 22, Anaheim

Found guilty by a jury on June 8, 2017, of the following felony counts: Continue reading→

Overweight vaper wanted for a brutal murder in Westminster

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Westminster police are looking for an overweight vaper who was caught on surveillance video at the scene where Treeanna Nichols, 22-year-old woman from Pasadena, was murdered on Feb. 5.

The suspect is seen in the video walking up the stairs of the Quality Inn on Westminster Boulevard at about 3 p.m. Feb. 5, while wearing a hooded sweatshirt and vaping. He leaves a short time later. Nichols was killed, according to police investigators, during that time period. Continue reading→

The SAPD arrested a man who barricaded himself in an apartment after threatening his mom

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Jose Carlos Velazquez-Martinez

Jose Carlos Velazquez-Martinez

Jose Carlos Velazquez-Martinez, 25 of Santa Ana, was arrested this afternoon after a 3-hour standoff with SAPD police officers, according to the  O.C. Register.

SAPD police officers arrived at an apartment at 811 South Fairview Street after they received a call about a son threatening his mother with a knife. Continue reading→

A burglary suspect died after struggling with SAPD police officers

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Santa Ana Police Department

Advisory: SAPD Investigating In-Custody Death

Suspect/Decedent: John Doe 

On Sunday, March 11, 2018, at 9:17 PM, Santa Ana Police officers responded to reports of a burglary alarm at K-V Engineering, located at 2411 West 1st Street. An employee of the business was remotely monitoring the location via surveillance system. The employee reported to police that an unknown male was on the property.

The first officer on scene observed a male jumping a fence out of the property and on to the sidewalk of West 1st Street. The suspected burglar ran from the officer prompting a foot pursuit. The officer caught up to the suspect at the entrance to a nearby business and a physical altercation ensued.  Continue reading→

A man was assaulted and murdered at the Santa Ana Civic Center last night

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Santa Ana Police Department

Advisory: Detectives Investigating a Homicide in the Civic Center Area

Victim: Pending Notification of Next of Kin

On Sunday, March 11, 2018, at 11:34 PM, Santa Ana Police officers responded to reports of an assault with a victim down in the Plaza of the Flags within the City of Santa Ana Civic Center. Orange County Fire Authority paramedics treated the victim at scene and declared him deceased at 11:52 PM. Continue reading→

A man who tried to run over a Garden Grove police officer was shot and wounded this morning

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Garden Grove police officers shot and wounded an unidentified man early this morning as he tried to flee from the parking lot of the Grove Motel, according to the Garden Grove Police Department.

The suspect apparently tried to hit a police officer with his car as he was trying to flee from the police. Continue reading→

Santa Ana gangbanger gets 35 years to life in prison after killing a 15-year-old boy

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Brian Jose Miguel, a 23-year-old alleged gangbanger, was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison on Friday for the shooting death of Jimmy Hernandez, a 15-year-old boy, who was riding a bicycle in Santa Ana, according to the O.C. Register.

Miguel was looking at life in prison until he pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder for the 2012 fatal shooting of Hernandez in the 2000 block of West Myrtle Street. Continue reading→

Valley High School was locked down this morning while the SAPD searched for a car theft suspect

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Valley High School was locked down briefly this morning while the SAPD pursued three suspects who fled from the police, according to the O.C. Register.

The suspects were in a stolen car. Two of them were arrested as they tried to flee but a third suspect got away, according to the SAPD. Continue reading→