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News, articles and information about crime, including murder, home invasion, assault, rape, robbery, burglary, hate crimes, slavery, vandalism.
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Police Files
AREA 1 Gloria Drive: A misdemeanor assault was reported in the 6400 block at 9:45 a.m. Sunday. The caller reported two friends were fighting. One friend hit the other with her fist. Volga Drive: A misdemeanor assault was reported in the 7500 block at...Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault, Misdemeanors
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Lawsuit claims police misconduct
A Huntington Beach couple has sued the city, the Police Department and two police officers, claiming the officers entered their home without a warrant, then falsely arrested and inappropriately touched one of them. Lt. Mitch O'Brien said the...Tags: Trials, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior, Justice System
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Former coach pleads not guilty to sexual relations with student
A former high school basketball coach charged with having an ongoing unlawful sexual relationship with a student pleaded not guilty Thursday. Fountain Valley resident John Tran Nguyen, 21, pleaded not guilty to one felony count of unlawful sexual...Tags: Trials, Prosecution, Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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Man charged with attacking officer
A Midway City man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault charges for allegedly attacking a Huntington Beach police officer who responded to a fight in front of a hotel, according to the Orange County district attorney's office. Nam Viet Hong Vo...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Crime, Law and Justice, Health
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Joe Surf: Balancing school and the board
Pro surfing and school don't mix. At least not the kind of school that requires its students to show up on time, spend most of the day in a classroom and then go home and do homework into the afternoon and evening. That's why so many up-and-coming...Tags: Australian Open, Gold Coast, Crime, Law and Justice, Kelly Slater, Chicago Park District
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Former school aide pleads guilty to lewd acts
A former after-school program aide was convicted Thursday of sending lewd photographs of himself to three boys and attempting to meet an 11-year-old for sex acts at a 7-Eleven in Fountain Valley. Miguel Antonio Mendoza, 21, of Orange pleaded guilty to...Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Prisons, Euclid
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Homeless man convicted of hate crime
A white homeless Huntington Beach man was convicted Thursday of committing a hate crime against a Hispanic woman and sentenced to three years of formal probation and 180 days in county jail, according to the Orange County district attorney's office....Tags: Court Preliminary, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Punishment
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Former teacher may face extra year in prison
A former middle school teacher charged with having sexual relations with a 17-year-old boy may face an additional year in prison after being arrested again last week. Gay Davidson-Shepard, who retired this spring from Mesa View Middle School, was...Tags: Teachers, Landforms, Trials, Prosecution, Police Arrests
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Dekraai pleads not guilty
SANTA ANA — The Huntington Beach man accused of walking into a Seal Beach salon and killing eight people pleaded not guilty Tuesday in front of a courtroom packed with emotional family members and friends of the victims. A preliminary hearing was...Tags: Court Preliminary, Paul Wilson, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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Rapist sentenced to 129 years
A registered sex offender from Huntington Beach received a 129-year prison sentence Friday for sexually assaulting four women in 2007 and videotaping his crimes. James Ernest Bledsoe, 30, was convicted Oct. 20 of felony forcible rape, forcible oral...Tags: Criminals, Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Dining and Drinking, Sex Crimes
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H.B. man convicted of hit-and-run
A Huntington Beach man was convicted Thursday of a hit-and-run accident that left a bicyclist dead. Adam Carl Garrett, 19, pleaded guilty to a court offer to one felony count of hit-and-run causing death and one misdemeanor count of vehicular...Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Crimes, Disasters and Accidents
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Joe Surf: Laguna's Pribram intervening in Windy City surfer arrest
"Surfing is not a crime." That's what 11-time Assn. of Surfing Professionals champ Kelly Slater tweeted when he found out last month that 40-year-old Rex Flodstrom was arrested by Chicago police for — wait for it — surfing off the shores of...Tags: Surfing, Chicago Park District, Kelly Slater, Prisons, Lake Surfing
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