714-997-4400SCOTUS Rules Cell Phone Searches Require Warrants
Law enforcement officials across Orange County began adjusting to new search limits on Wednesday, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled officers need warrants to look through the cellphones of people they arrest. Until Wednesday, the court’s long-standing view was that police were free to search someone who was stopped on the street or in […]
OC Rental Listing Firm Raided, Accused of Scamming
First Step Rentals, an Orange County rental listing company, was raided by the Santa Ana police after being accused of scamming people out of hundreds of dollars. Police seized computers and files after at least 50 people would be tenants filed complaints with Santa Ana police, claiming they paid hundreds of dollars to the company […]
OC Dance Company Worker Faces Federal Child Pornography Charges
A Long Beach man faces federal child pornography charges after the Orange County District Attorney’s Office agreed to dismiss existing charges in order to facilitate a federal prosecution. Paul Michael Barbour, 33, is accused of using a hidden camera to secretly record young girls in a Cypress College dressing room. Barbour, who worked for Cypress-based […]
Mother Charged Killing Her Three Young Daughters, Pleads Not Guilty
This Thursday, Carol Coronado, 30, plead not guilty in a Compton courthouse to charges that she allegedly murdered her three young daughters and tryed to hill her own mother. Prosecutors allege that the Torrance mother tried to commit suicide and was hospitalized after she allegedly killed 2-year-old Sophia, 1-year-old Yazmine and 2-month-old Xenia, and tried […]
OC Serial Rapist Sentenced to 107 Years
On Friday, an Orange County Superior Court judge sentenced Travis Dewayne Batten Jr., a convicted rapist, to 107 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting two women in Irvine and Newport Beach. Authorities say 32-year-old Travis Dewayne Batten Jr. raped an Irvine woman in 2005 and sexually assaulted a Newport Beach woman in 2006 […]
Man Charged with Kidnapping and Sexual Assault of 15 year old.
Isidro Medrano Garcia, a 42-year-old Bell Gardens man has been charged for kidnapping his girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter and sexually assaulting her for 10 years. Garcia met the alleged victim, who is now 25, when he was dating and living with the teen’s mother in 2004. Prosecutors say he trained the victim by buying her gifts […]
Dekraai to Plead Guilty in 2011 Seal Beach Massacre
The Brower & Associates Blog has been closely following the tragic Seal Beach Shooting trial, most recently blogging the allegations that an illegal informant was placed in Scott Dekraai’s cell to illicit incriminating statements. In a new twist, Dekraai’s attorney told an Orange County judge on Monday that Dekraai will plead guilty to eight counts […]
Mistrail Declared in Orange County Distracted Driver Case
A mistrial was declared in the distracted driving case against Jorene Nicolas, 31, who was charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence for a 2011 fatal accident. Prosecutors said Nicolas, of San Diego, collided with another driver on the 405 Freeway in Westminster while she was distracted. Nicolas was allegedly so distracted that she was […]
Two Alleged Orange County Serial Killers Arrested in Connection with Four Murders
Orange County law enforcement officials have arrested and charged two registered sex offenders in connection with killing four sex workers, three of which went missing from Santa Ana last year. Franc Cano, 27, and Steven Gordon, 45 were arrest in Anaheim, near to the Anaheim Recycling facility where the body of Jarrae Nykkole Estepp was […]