714-997-4400Husband and Wife Allegedly Plant Drugs in PTA Volunteers Car, Face Trial
Till criminal charges do we part: An Irvine couple faced serious charges after planting drugs in a PTA volunteer’s vehicle. The wife, Jill Bjorkholm Easter, 40, pled guilty, but her husband, Kent Wycliffe Easter, 40, is denying all charges. Kent Easter is accused of felony false imprisonment for his alleged role in having school volunteer […]
OC Men Arrested for Allegedly Having Sex with a Minor
Two Orange County men have been arrested and charged with child molestation involving sex with a high school girl from Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo. The Orange County Sheriff’s Departments news release say the investigation began in early in October, when a concerned parent contacted the School Resource Officer (SRO) at Trabuco Hills […]
Huntington Beach Murder, OC Man Arrested
Rito Tejeda, 22, of Santa Ana, who was seen covered in blood and walking down a Huntington Beach street was charged Friday with fatally stabbing a 51-year-old man.An off-duty officer spotted Tejeda with blood on his clothes and body near Knoxville Avenue and Delaware Street on Wednesday, said the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. The officer […]
Two Arrested LAX Dry Ice Explosions
A dry ice bomb in a plastic bottle exploded in an employee restroom at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, October 13, and then another went off outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal Monday, October 14. A third bomb was found before it went off. Dicarlo Bennett, 28, is one of the two LAX employees […]
Trial Murtaza OC Double Homicide
Trial has begun this week for an Van Nuys man accused of murdering an Orange County man and his daughter, as well as attempting to murder the Orange County man’s wife. An Orange County prosecutor’s opening statement labels Iftekhar Murtaza as being a rejected boyfriend who turned into an infatuated killer when his girlfriend told […]
Dodger Fan Stabbing Suspect Released From Jail, District Attorney Needs More Evidence
The man accused in the stabbing death of Dodger fan Jonathan Denver last week was released from custody tonight, according to Sheriff’s officials.Police arrested Michael Montgomery, 21, of Lodi, in the killing of 24-year-old Los Angeles Dodger fan Jonathan Denver who was fatally stabbed after the team’s loss to the San Francisco Giants. Montgomery was […]
Miss Teen USA Extortion Suspect, Former Classmate Jared Abrahams, Arrested
Jares James Abrahams, a 19-year-old Temecula college freshman, was taken into custody Thursday on federal charges he attempted to extort the newly crowned Miss Teen USA and other young women.Jared James Abrahams allegedly commandeered webcams of unsuspecting women in Canada, Ireland, Russia and across the United States, a federal criminal complaint unsealed Thursday said. It is […]
Norwalk Pastor Arrested Sexual Assault
An associate pastor and counselor of the Nuevas Buenas Church in Norwalk is accused of sexually assaulted at least 20 parishioners at his Norwalk church over an eight year period. Detectives alleged that Jorge Juan Castro, 54, targeted female parishioners who were undocumented immigrants and spoke only Spanish, assaulting them at the church or during […]
Mother Arrested for Double Homicide in Santa Ana
A mother from Scottsdale, Arizona, is facing charges of murder with special circumstances after she allegedly murdered her two children in a Costa Mesa hotel room, and then attempted suicide.Marilyn Edge, 42, of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been in jail on suicide watch since her arrest Saturday.Edge tipped off police shortly after they say she attempted […]