Category · All of Orange County
24 crime & courts stories across Orange County. Straight from the Juice feed, newest first.
Garden Grove · Crime & Courts
Orange County prosecutors say Charles William Starnes III, 52, assaulted a fellow officer in 2007 and a civilian police employee in 2020. He faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Anaheim · Crime & Courts
Prosecutors say Ismael Pinedalopez, 34, came home early from work, found another man in bed with his wife and stabbed him to death with a pocketknife while the couple's two young children were in the home.
Westminster · Crime & Courts
Police say a caller reported killing someone, and officers arrived to find Benjamin Hoang with blood on his hands. Inside the Sutter Drive home were a 74-year-old woman, an 80-year-old man and the family dog, all dead.
Orange County · Crime & Courts
The Orange County DA has filed child endangerment and related charges in new cases from Yorba Linda, Orange, Newport Beach, Garden Grove and La Palma. Prosecutors say the riders ranged in age from 9 to 17.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Thieves took two pallets of graded trading cards from a FedEx truck outside PSA's Santa Ana office on Oct. 13. Police put the loss at $963,000, and no arrests had been reported as of Oct. 21.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Omar Flores Sanchez, 35, was shot on a West Myrtle Street sidewalk Oct. 17. Santa Ana police say officers found a truck matching witness descriptions within minutes, and a later search turned up the gun they believe was used.
Anaheim · Crime & Courts
Jurors rejected second-degree murder for Zachary Pickrell, who now faces up to seven years in the death of a teen SoundCloud rapper on North Holbrook Street. Sentencing was set for Oct. 30.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Prosecutors dropped the case from the Oct. 1 arrest of Florentino Lopez, 28, but are now pursuing a probation violation against him. Santa Ana police have opened an internal investigation into the officers' actions.
Irvine · Crime & Courts
Federal prosecutors say Wanying "Heather" Zhang, 34, surveilled the Seattle-area family of Taiwan's president at the direction of Chinese officials. FBI agents stopped her Oct. 4 as she prepared to fly to China.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
A video of Santa Ana officers taking Florentino Lopez to the ground outside his family's home set off a police review. Prosecutors later dropped the case from that arrest and are pursuing an alleged probation violation instead.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Santa Ana police say license plate readers led them to the minivan seen in a Sept. 8 surveillance video of a pit bull mix puppy being lured with food and run over near West Park Lane. The woman now faces felony counts in Orange County and a federal animal crushing charge.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Santa Ana police asked the public to help find the driver they say ran over a 9-month-old pit bull mix on West Park Lane. License plate readers led them to her a day later, and she now faces state and federal charges.
Irvine · Crime & Courts
Iris Rabaya Au, the ex-girlfriend of self-styled crypto “Godfather” Adam Iza, must also pay nearly $1.5 million in restitution and forfeit luxury cars, designer bags and three “Godfather” sculptures.
Orange County · Crime & Courts
An arbitrator found Uber and driver Vu Tran liable for the 2023 death of 23-year-old Emily Normandin-Parker, who was dropped at a gore point on State Route 73 in Newport Beach. He awarded her parents $20 million each.
Anaheim · Crime & Courts
Anaheim police say three businesses inside the Anaheim Marketplace were selling Xanax without a prescription to anyone who paid, including minors. Officers say they seized about 50 bottles of pills and nearly $250,000 in cash.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Santa Ana police say two men used an electric cutting tool to free the statue from its base at Christ Our Savior Catholic Church, then dragged it toward Segerstrom High School. No arrests have been announced.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
Police say a man abandoned his car, hid in a pickup truck bed and allegedly tossed a gun as officers closed in, and at least one shot was fired. He was taken to a hospital, and it was not clear where the shot came from.
Huntington Beach · Crime & Courts
Huntington Beach police say a mother let her kids ride recklessly with a large pack of pocket bike riders. A father whose child rode up mid-investigation and an adult rider who crashed were also arrested.
Tustin · Crime & Courts
Tustin officers answering a domestic incident call on Monday, Aug. 24, found a woman dead inside a Walnut Avenue apartment. Police say a man then advanced on them with a knife and was fatally shot by an officer.
Seal Beach · Crime & Courts
A CHP chase on the 405 Freeway ended in Seal Beach on Thursday night, April 9, 2026. After a spike strip shredded a tire, the driver made a U-turn into oncoming patrol cars, then got out and fought an officer before at least six officers took him down, KTLA reported.
Santa Ana · Crime & Courts
A woman on her way to work in Santa Ana fought back and escaped after a man tried to force her into the back of a van. Police were searching for a man in a dark blue van with white lettering.
Stanton · Crime & Courts
Video posted the night of April 7, 2026, showed emergency lights outside a Stanton home Juice Unlocked called the "slap house." The same week, the Orange County Sheriff's Department arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting in the city and said it found an illegal gambling house during the investigation.
Stanton · Crime & Courts
Video from Easter Sunday showed a line of people sitting against a wall under a sheriff's deputy's watch in Stanton. Three days later, the Sheriff's Department said a homicide investigation that morning led to an illegal gambling house where about 50 people were detained.
Westminster · Crime & Courts
Prosecutors say a 34-year-old registered sex offender pressured a 13-year-old girl walking in Westminster into his car in December 2025 and sexually assaulted her over several hours. With help from the FBI, he was tracked to Guatemala and arrested in February 2026.
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