Man Arrested For Selling Drugs to Minors And Charged With Child Endangerment
Photo: Shark Club. Source: Los Angeles Times. Last Friday, a man was arrested for selling drugs to minors. Israel Soriano, 26, was at The Shark Club in Costa Mesa on Friday night for “teen night”. The event was held at The Shark Club for 14-18 year old teenagers to attend. Club security saw Soriano acting strangely […]
Gang Member Murders Woman and Attempts to Murder Woman’s Boyfriend During Robbery
Pictured above: Christopher Dai-Ichi Yu. Source: Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Earlier this week, Christopher Dai-Ichu Yu was convicted of murder, criminal street-gang activity, street terrorism, and attempted murder. He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for his crimes because of the special circumstance of murder during a robbery. In March of […]
Man Charged with 156 Felony Counts of White Collar Crime Including Fraud & Embezzlement
Pictured Above: James Harry Fluch. Source: Orange County Register. James Harry Fluch, pictured above, is charged with 156 felony counts of computer access fraud with sentencing enhancements for property loss of more than $200,000 and a white-collar crime of more than $100,000 for embezzling over $822,000 from an Irvine firm where he worked as an accounting […]
Officer Found Guilty of Sexual Assault and Soliciting Sex While on Duty
A former Los Angeles Police Department officer was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison for the sexual assault of a woman and soliciting sex from another woman. Russell Mecano, a 10 year veteran officer, propositioned a 19-year-old homeless woman to have sex with him for $200 in 2007, after she was arrested on suspicion […]
Marijuana Plants Worth Millions Seized, Four Men Arrested
Source: Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. After a four week investigation, approximately 1,979 marijuana plants were found inside of four units of a business complex in Los Angeles last week. The approximate value of the plants was between $2-$5 million dollars, depending on where they were being sold. Usually plants grown indoors are more potent then […]
Third Strike Conviction for Home Invasion Robber With Deadly Weapon
Pictured Above: Hung Trong Do. Source: Orange County District Attorney’s Office. A Stanton man faces his third strike for a home-invasion robbery that he pleaded guilty to today. Hung Trong Do broke into the home of a woman who was running a day care business caring for six children. Do was armed with a gun that he pointed […]
Child Custody Dispute Leads to Murder of Two in Orange County
Pictured Above: Emily Ford and her father Russell Ford. Source: DMV. On Tuesday afternoon, a man who had just lost custody of his daughter, shot and killed his ex-wife and her father. Robert Allan Lehmann had been married to Emily Ford for about 10 months. After getting a divorce, they got into a nasty custody battle over […]
Long Beach Teenager Threatens Students Through Facebook
Source: Facebook.com Last week, a 17-year-old teenage boy was arrested for threatening four students at Millikan High School in Long Beach. The way he threatened his victims was through the social networking site, Facebook. The student created a fictitious Facebook account, added students from his high school as his friends on the site, and then threatened […]
Woman Commits White-Collar Crime By Embezzling From Boys & Girls Club
Lynette Rojas booking photo COURTESY OF ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Lynette Rojas was an executive assistant for the Club with the responsibility of preparing payroll data and completing bank deposits for the organization. She abused her position by processing unauthorized payroll to herself, and stealing cash that was supposed to be deposited into the Club account. She […]