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Jacob Richard Bonzer, 28, worked for Farmers Insurance Group in Brea between 2009-2010. Bonzer was terminated after failing the Farmers Career Program and after he was terminated, investigators found 128 homeowner policies listed to the Brea office that were not associated with the properties. In...

Roger Alan Giese, 40, a former Buena Park choir teacher who fled the United States pending a jury trial was captured in the United Kingdom. Giese fled the US in 2007 while awaiting trial on child sexual assault charges. Giese had made court appearances from 2002 to 2007, however, on the eve of tr...

Federal agents raided homes in Orange County, Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County in an effort to investigate the practice of maternity tourism. An apartment complex near John Wayne Airport was one of the locations where search warrants were seized and documents and computers taken. La...

A Santa Ana man was charged with murder and felony hit and run causing death after killing Pearleen Hopkins on January 28, 2015. Dallas Reichstein, 46 faces 34 years to life in prison after his SUV struck Hopkins on West MacArthur Boulevard in Santa Ana while she was crossing the street. Hopkins ...

The Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office filed murder and attempted murder charges against Marion Suge Knight for allegedly running down two men in Compton. One of the men, Terry Carter, 55, was killed while Cle Bone Sloan, has been released from a hospital. Knight at the time of the Co...

Irvine resident, Colin Selsted, 27, was arrested after a passenger in his vehicle died as a result of a crash on Shady Canyon Drive. Devon Williams, 23, of Westminster, was transported to Western Medical Center where she died from her injuries. Selsted was charged with one count of gross vehicu...

A Westminster man pleaded guilty to false imprisonment by violence and four counts of sexual battery. Matthew Linville, 20, was sentenced to three years in state prison and will be required to register as a sex offender for life. Linville, approached Jane Doe #1 as she was jogging in a neighb...

Qayed Murtaza Shareef, 39, an Orange County CEO is suspected of using a social messaging application to convince two boys to trade explicit photos and videos with him is being held on $2 million bail. Shareef, of Aliso Viejo, faces 33 felony counts, including over 20 counts of lewd or lasciviou...

Michelle Ghirelli, a teacher at West Covina high school was arrested on suspicion of having sexual relations with an underage student. Ghirelli, 30, is suspected of having the sexual contact with the minor in December while staying overnight at San Clemente State Beach. A second teacher who pla...

Steven Cervantes, of Anaheim man is facing federal counterfeiting charges after police officers found drugs and counterfeiting equipment in a Fountain Valley hotel room. Cervantes, and a friend, were arrested last week Huntington Beach officer noticed they were standing too close to an intersec...

David Rose, of Coto de Caza man was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for defrauding physicians and others out of more than $2 million in a phony investment in medical technology companies. In addition to the 57 months of incarceration, U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna ordered Da...

Gerald Rupple, 25, a former school bus driver for Orange Unified School District has been charged with causing severe injuries to students by passing out behind the wheel and crashing into several trees. Rupple, is charged with one felony count of child abuse and one count of child endangerment, ...

Letha Montemayor Tucker, 53, a North Hills resident, was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison on Friday for sex trafficking a girl aged 12 to 13 in an activity that was photographed and circulated widely in child pornography rings. Tucker could have received more than 12 years in prison, bu...

Several people were injured, one critically, in a car crash after a police chase Friday night, the Orange County Sheriffs Department said Saturday. The chase began around 10:30 p.m. in the area of Toledo Way and Serrano Road in Lake Forest, OCSD Lt. Jeff Hallock said in a statement. Deputies ...

A federal grand jury indicted Dr. Mark Rettenmaier, 62, of Newport Beach, on two counts of possession of child pornography. Rettenmaier, who specializes in gynecologic oncology is alleged to have possessed the child porn images on November 20, 2011 and February 14, 2012 on a computer and iPhone. ...

Dr. Sri Wijegunaratne, has been charged with sexually assaulting a patient at a Riverside medical marijuana clinic. According to records, Dr. Wijegunaratne is prohibited from practicing medicine while he is out on bail in his criminal case. A female patient reported to authorities that she was ...

DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc. has agreed to pay $350 million over allegations they paid kickbacks to induce referral fees for dialysis treatment. The allegations involve kickbacks that were paid between 2005 and 2014 to physicians and physician groups that had large number of patients sufferin...

A Canadian pilot and his passenger were arrested October 10, 2014 for allegedly trying to smuggle $2 million in ecstasy into John Wayne Airport. Giles Lapointe, 61 and Krista Boseley, 30 are in federal custody on charges of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Lapointe, the pilot w...

23-year-old John Glenn, a transient has been arrested for attacking a real estate agent last weekend. The real estate agent, a 55-year-old woman was punched in the face and put in a choke hold just after 1:00 p.m. The woman was attacked from behind and lost consciousness after securing the lock b...

Dr. Violeta Moyer De Jesus was placed on five years of probation by the California Medical Board after the board found her unsafe to practice safely due to her bipolar condition. Dr. De Jesus was subjected to a psychiatric evaluation las fall while working as a locum tenens physician at Colusa Re...

A former anthropology and history professor for the past 20 years was arrested and plead guilty to engaging in illegal sexual contact with minors in foreign places. Walter Lee Williams, 65, appeared in federal court yesterday and federal prosecutors recommended the disgraced professor receive no ...

Christopher Richard Garcia, 57, a deputy city attorney for the city of Los Angeles, was arrested on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography. Garcia had been under investigation for ten months and a warrant to search his home produced computers and other electronic devices. Au...

Keith Gartenlaub, 46, formally of Irvine but now living in Laguna Hills was arrested by the F.B.I. on allegations of possessing child pornography. Gartenlaub, was being monitored by federal agencies and had his home searched pursuant to a warrant. According to law enforcement, Gartenlaub had what...

Jerry Coleman, 34, of Garden Grove was arrested for suspicion of posing as a delivery man and committing two home invasion robberies at gunpoint in Garden Grove. Coleman, is charged with first degree robbery in concert, false imprisonment, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, dissuading a witnes...

A Huntington Beach man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of robbing a bank in Newport Beach. 28-year-old Christopher Mellies was arrested by Newport Beach police for allegedly robbing a Wells Fargo Bank on East Coast Highway July 20, 2014. Newport Beach investigators are looking into other si...