A San Diego woman known to her dark web customers as the “Drug Llama” has been arrested on charges of shipping more than 50,000 fentanyl pills throughout the country, authorities said Tuesday. Though the charges against Melissa Scanlan stem from a federal grand jury indictment in Illinois, the…
Water polo coach Randy Burgess has filed a libel suit against the Coronado Unified School District over its response to sexual abuse allegations made against Burgess last year. Burgess believes the school district’s public statements about the claims exposed the coach and gym teacher to “hatred,…
Calling it an effort to maintain residents’ quality of life, the city of Huntington Beach will collaborate with the Orange County district attorney’s office to devise a plan to crack down on illegal in-home businesses in residential areas. The City Council gave City Atty. Michael Gates the green…
A police officer in Woodlake in California’s Central Valley was charged Monday with 12 felony counts for allegedly using his status of an officer to sexually assault two women. Oscar Robles, 26, is accused of threatening to arrest or deport women and then raping them, assault with the intent to…
Father Robert Capone speaks to students during mass at JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, CA on Wednesday, September 19, 2018. The school was celebrating Patron’s Day, the founding of the school, as well as the dedication of a statue recognizing the canonization of Saint Serra in 2015. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange…
A day after prosecutors announced that a well-known Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend were charged with drugging and raping two women, several other potential victims contacted investigators, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Wednesday. The DA’s office has received more than 30 calls, including at least six “strong leads” regarding potential sexual assault victims…
Police in Buena Park were searching for a man considered to be armed and dangerous near the intersection of Beach and Artesia boulevards on the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 19. Officers encountered a suspect in a car who they believe had a gun sometime before 3 p.m., according to Buena Park Police Sgt. Mike Lovchik….
As a new member of the civilian board that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department, Matt Johnson wanted to reduce the number of police shootings. The fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014 had recently shaken the country, giving rise to the Black…
Two weeks after a gunman in Parkland, Fla., zigzagged from one classroom to another in his former high school, killing 17 people, a Beverly Hills High employee dialed 911 to report a stranger mumbling to himself and following her as she left campus. Police confiscated a loaded handgun in the man’s…
One thing I never understood about Meg Shimatsu was how she kept her spirits up, given her health problems and her circumstances. When I wrote about the former legal secretary a little over a year ago, she was living in a 1990 Toyota Corolla but figured things could be worse, given how many people…
