Police cadet stabbed outside Costa Mesa nightclub By ALYSSA DURANTY AND CLAUDIA KOERNER / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER COSTA MESA – A Placentia police cadet was stabbed in the stomach while trying to break up a fight outside the Shark … Continue reading
Man arrested after SWAT team standoff in H.B. HUNTINGTON BEACH – A report of a stolen vehicle led to a three-hour police standoff and the arrest of an armed man in connection with a string of charges, police said. Huntington … Continue reading
Burglars Tunnel Through Walls to Los Alamitos Businesses Kicking in a door, picking a lock or smashing a window are all old burglary standbys. But tunneling through a wall? Not as popular. In at least three separate instances this … Continue reading
A home on Avocado Avenue was burglarized this week while the residents were upstairs. Police are asking residents to keep an eye out for a suspect who burglarized a Newport Beach home this week while the residents were upstairs. The … Continue reading
Orange County prosecutors say a Laguna Hills man accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend and fleeing to Arizona has been charged with murder. Hours after 24-year-old Alexandra Tang was found dead with multiple stab wounds, her boyfriend, Derek Henry Pinski, … Continue reading
Costa Mesa Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer on Friday accused local employee associations of being behind a 911 call that led to an officer giving him a field sobriety test outside of his home. “This has gone way over the … Continue reading
Mixed martial arts fighter and reality TV show host Jason “Mayhem” Miller was arrested Monday on suspicion of burglary after deputies found him dozing naked on a couch in an Orange County church. Miller, 31, was released from Orange County … Continue reading
Burglars made off with $15,000 in copper wiring from a building’s rooftop, at 6:06 a.m. Wednesday in the 8800 block of Burlcrest Drive. Crime scene investigators recovered fingerprint evidence at the scene. Copper wire theft has been on the rise … Continue reading
A UC Irvine professor accused in a series of arson fires following his son’s suicide wrote in emails that he was thinking about getting a dozen machine guns and shooting at least 200 students at his son’s high school before … Continue reading
Authorities allege that a UC Irvine professor, grieving over the suicide of his teenage son, wrote emails in which he talks of committing mass murder at University High School. “We did take these emails very seriously,” said Farrah Emami, spokeswoman … Continue reading