ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
August 10, 2017
Case # 16WF1947
FRESNO FELON CONVICTED OF PIMPING YOUNG WOMAN AND ILLEGALLY POSSESSING LOADED FIREARM
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A felon from Fresno was convicted today of pimping a young woman and illegally possessing a loaded firearm.
Defendant: Adam Rocky Trinidad, 25, Fresno
Pleaded guilty today to: Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
July 27, 2017
Case # 16CF2020
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced yesterday to seven years and eight months in state prison for trafficking, pimping, and pandering two 15-year-old Fresno girls in Orange County.
Defendant: Kenneth Afrane Glenn Maxwell, 20, Fresno
Pleaded guilty on July 26, 2017, to the following felony counts: Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
July 19, 2017
Case # 16NF0460
*Man also charged with forcible sexual assaults on 15-year-old victim
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A San Jose felon was sentenced to 31 years and six months in state prison yesterday for human trafficking, pimping, and pandering two minors and six additional women using a firearm, intimidation, and drugs.
Defendant: Ariel Cuellar Guizar, 36, San Jose
Pleaded guilty on July 18, 2017, to felony: Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
July 5, 2017
Case # 17CF1662
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Minnesota man was arraigned today for human trafficking and attempted pimping of two fictitious minors he met through social media.
Defendant: Nigel Ezekiel Samuels, 25, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Charged today with: Continue reading
Santa Ana has had a problem with prostitution for some time – and the prostitutes have been at times targeted by murderous criminals. The trail of one of those suspects, Jose Esteban Cardenas Zuniga, a 41-year old resident of Mammoth Lakes, started today, according to the O.C. Register.
Zuniga is charged with killing a then 25-year old prostitute, Yacshicka Watts, whose body was found at a Santa Ana business park, early in the morning, on Oct. 20, 2007, by transients. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
June 23, 2017
Case # 14HF0182
WOMAN SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON FOR PIMPING WOMEN OUT OF IRVINE BROTHELS
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A woman was sentenced yesterday to three years in state prison for pimping women out of luxury Irvine apartments operating as brothels.
Defendant: Jian Zhen Zhu, 42, Santa Ana
Pleaded guilty to the court on Nov. 15, 2016, to felony counts: Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
Case # 17CF1377
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Palmdale felon is facing additional charges for pandering seven victims and pimping two young women in Costa Mesa and Garden Grove. His co-defendant faces initial charges in the amended complaint filed yesterday.
Defendant: Antonio Alon Johnson, 23, Palmdale
Felony Charges: Continue reading
Santa Ana Police Department
Missing Person: Kimberly Molina (16)
UPDATE: The missing 16 year old female has been located and subsequently released to the custody of LA County Social Workers as of the morning of May 24, 2017.
On 5/23/17, a social worker was transporting Molina to LA County. Molina jumped out of the car at 500 N. Main Street in Santa Ana and fled northbound.
Molina has priors for prostitution and has been a victim of human trafficking. She may be in the company of her pimp known only as “FEDERICO.” Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
May 9, 2017
Case # 17CF1135
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Fontana man was arraigned yesterday for trafficking a minor girl from San Bernardino County and pimping the victim in Santa Ana.
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
March 29, 2017
Case # 17CF0535, 16NF2060
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A felon is facing additional charges for human trafficking, pimping, pandering, and assault. Deunta Patterson, 26, Bakersfield, was arraigned yesterday, March 28, 2017, with 22 felony counts of pandering by promise, threat, or violence to become a prostitute, four felony counts each of pimping and pandering a minor over 16 years old by procuring, two felony counts each of human trafficking, human trafficking of a minor, and attempted pimping, and one felony count each of pimping a minor, pandering, and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury. Patterson also faces sentencing enhancements for human trafficking of a minor by force and/or fear and a prior strike conviction for residential burglary in 2013 in Kern County. If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum sentence of life in state prison. Patterson is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on April 26, 2017, at 8:30 a.m. in Department C-57, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
March 17, 2017
Case # 15CF1483
*Longest sentence in HEAT Unit history
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A parolee who trafficked a woman while on GPS monitoring was sentenced yesterday to 233 years to life in prison for kidnapping, raping, and pimping a victim on the Fourth of July. Beau James Dearborne, 38, Santa Ana, was found guilty by a jury on Nov. 17, 2016, of two felony counts each of forcible rape in concert, oral copulation in concert with force and fear, pimping, and pandering, and one felony count each of human trafficking, kidnapping to commit rape, and second degree robbery. The defendant admitted a prior serious and violent felony strike conviction for rape of an unconscious person in 2010 in Orange County, and sentencing enhancements for prior prison convictions in 2003 and 2006 in Clark County, Nevada. Dearborne was sentenced on March 16, 2017, to 228 years determinate and 5 years to life indeterminate. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
March 16, 2017
Case # 16CF2659
SAN DIEGO MAN SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON FOR PIMPING AND PANDERING WOMAN IN SANTA ANA
*The crime was discovered during a routine traffic stop
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A San Diego man was sentenced to three years in state prison yesterday for pimping and pandering a woman, which was discovered during a routine traffic stop in Santa Ana. Rodney Jerome Walker, 50, San Diego, pleaded guilty on March 15, 2017, to a court offer of one felony count each of pimping and pandering. Continue reading
Ronald Spurlock
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
March 9, 2017
Case # 14CF2383
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MAN CONVICTED OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, PIMPING, AND PANDERING SEVERAL WOMEN
FULLERTON, Calif. – A San Bernadino man was convicted yesterday of human trafficking, pimping, and pandering of several women. Ronald Preston Spurlock, 38, Grand Terrace, was found guilty by a jury on March 8, 2017, of two felony counts of human trafficking, four felony counts of pimping, eight felony counts of pandering, and one felony count of conspiring to dissuade a witness. Spurlock also pleaded guilty on Feb. 27, 2017, to one felony count of possession of a firearm by a felon. The defendant faces a maximum sentence of 34 years in state prison and mandatory lifetime sex offender registration at his sentencing on June 16, 2017, at 8:30 a.m. in Department N-11, North Justice Center, Fullerton. Continue reading
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE
March 7, 2017
Case # 17CF0540
FELON CHARGED WITH PIMPING AND PANDERING WOMAN WHILE OUT ON BAIL
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A felon was charged yesterday with pimping and pandering a woman while out on bail for another pimping-related crime. Christopher Clayton Rico, 29, Carson, is charged with one felony count each of pimping and pandering by procuring with sentencing enhancements for crime-bail-crime and prior strike convictions for first degree burglary in 2007 in Orange County. If convicted, Rico faces a maximum of 15 years in state prison.
Circumstances of the Case Continue reading
Santa Ana Prostitutes
Santa Ana Police Department
During the evening hours of Saturday, March 04, 2017, Detectives with the Santa Ana Police Department’s Vice and Narcotics Unit conducted an operation on Harbor Boulevard to target the level of street prostitution in that area.
A total of 20 females were arrested for prostitution related offenses. Continue reading