SANTA ANA — A former Ladera Ranch resident has been sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison for operating a real estate investment scheme while living in Orange County, federal officials said Wednesday. Daniel Vazquez, 57, was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release by U.S….
Trona resident Benny Eldridge, 76, who has lived in the small town since 1955, looks into his wife’s destroyed office Wednesday July 10, 2019. The home has numerous cracks and shifted three inches off its foundation. State and county officials attended the meeting giving information and answering questions from concerned residents of the small town,…
Police released a video Wednesday of one of two armed robberies that took place in Santa Ana on Thursday, July 4, in hopes of identifying a pair of suspects seen in the surveillance footage. The heist captured by security cameras happened at M & Toi Cafe, 4702 W. 1st St., at about 7:09 a.m., Santa…
By JIM MUSTIAN NEW YORK — A new accuser of Jeffrey Epstein said Wednesday that the wealthy financier raped her in his New York mansion when she was 15. Jennifer Araoz filed court papers seeking information from Epstein in preparation for suing him, and she aired her allegations on NBC’s “Today” show , though she…
Anaheim police have turned over their investigation into a family brawl caught on video in Disneyland’s Toontown over the weekend to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. The case was presented to prosecutors on Tuesday for review, Anaheim police said, despite those involved in the brawl denying to authorities that any wrong-doing had occurred. Prosecutors…
Four felony charges were filed Wednesday, July 10, against Ayoola Adisa Ajayi, the man suspected of killing El Segundo’s MacKenzie Lueck and burying her body in a forested area, authorities said. The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office filed felony charges of aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, obstruction of justice, and desecration of a body against…
There are a lot of complicated threads to untangle in the case of billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, the Gatsbyesque financier who owns six homes — including mansions in Palm Beach and Manhattan — two private jets and a Caribbean island, and has a sexual predilection for teenage girls. We cannot…
Declining pedestrian traffic in downtown Los Angeles is documented by similar photos at the corner of 7th Street and Broadway taken in 1926, 1958 and 1974.
NEWPORT BEACH — A 45-year-old Portola Hills man pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking upskirt photos of a woman at an Irvine car wash and was immediately sentenced to perform 80 hours of community service. Nathan Martin Haley, 45, of Portola Hills, was charged March 20 with a single misdemeanor count of using a concealed recording…
A SWAT team approaches a house in the 3200 block of South Thornton Street in Santa Ana after an armed attempted robbery suspect barricaded himself inside the home on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. (OnScene.TV) A SWAT team stages outside a house in the 3200 block of South Thornton Street in Santa Ana after an armed…
