This final article in our four part mid-month West Orange County housing market series recaps our previous articles for Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, and Seal Beach (excluding Leisure World), and also looks at the details for Leisure World. The data is as of June 15, 2013. The mainstream news media is awash in real estate reports [...]
Seal Beach Mid-June Housing Report: Inventory Falls
By Dolores Barr on June 19th, 2013
Of the three West Orange County real estate markets studied by OC180NEWS, this month, only Seal Beach followed the widely reported national trend of lower housing inventory. For OC in total, the trend has been of increasing inventory since the beginning of this year, and Los Alamitos and Rossmoor both followed that trend this month. [...]
OC Judge Overrides DA, Releases Inmate Under Prop 36
June 18th, 2013
By the Orange County District Attorney’s office At today’s hearing, the Honorable Robert Fitzgerald, over the objection of the Orange County District Attorney’s office, reviewed Inmate John Paul Beckman’s criminal background and determined that Beckman would no longer present a risk to public safety. Beckman Was resentenced today by the Court under Proposition 36 and [...]
Los Alamitos Mid-June Housing Report: Growth In Listings Far Outpaces OC
By Dolores Barr on June 18th, 2013
With so many media reports focused on housing these days, it’s not easy to separate the wheat from the chaff. At OC180NEWS, we do exactly that for our subscribers. Today there have been media reports on the falling housing inventories across the nation. These reports are usually national, or, at best, regional, and therefore essentially [...]
Construction Update: I-405, I-605, SR-22 And Certain Surface Streets
June 17th, 2013
The Orange County Transportation Authority released this update regarding construction activity for the West County Connectors project. Construction activity is ongoing along the northbound I-405 off-ramp and southbound I-405 on-ramp at Seal Beach Boulevard. This activity is in preparation for a traffic shift scheduled to take place on these ramps the week of June 17. [...]
Rossmoor Mid-June Housing Report: Listings Increase
By Dolores Barr on June 17th, 2013
The number of houses on the market in Orange County has steadily increased since the beginning of this year. In Rossmoor, the number has increased, but at a slower rate. In this exclusive OC180NEWS series, we look at new listings, inventory, and distressed units in Rossmoor as of June 15, 2013. Since they are two [...]
Two Men Charged With Pimping And Pandering Teenage Women, Face 9 Years
By Orange County District Attorney’s Office on June 17th, 2013
SANTA ANA – Charges have been filed against two men for pimping and pandering of two female victims, ages 18 and 19 years old, after being stopped by undercover Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) officers. Raphael Jared Scally, 27, Hesperia, and Darryl Da Keis Gillard, 27, Hemet, are both charged with two felony counts of [...]
West OC Congressmen Rohrabacher, Lowenthal Oppose Obama On Arming Syrian Rebels
By Dolores Barr on June 14th, 2013
It’s not every day that Republican Dana Rohrabacher and Democrat Alan Lowenthal are together on one side of an issue, and the Obama Administration is on the opposite side. But, that’s how it now stands on weapons for the Syrian rebels. Nearly two months after the initial determination that the Syrian Government might have used [...]
Irvine Lawyer Gets One Year In Jail For Defrauding And Embezzling From Clients
By Orange County District Attorney’s Office on June 14th, 2013
SANTA ANA- A former attorney was convicted and sentenced yesterday for embezzling over $150,000 in insurance claims and defrauding his clients. Tuan Thanh Tran, 44, Irvine, pleaded guilty yesterday June 13, 2013, to 10 felony counts of embezzlement by fiduciary of trust with a sentencing enhancement for theft exceeding $200,000. Tran was sentenced to one [...]
Anaheim Baseball Coach Charged With Texting Pornography To Teen Boys
By Orange County District Attorney’s Office on June 13th, 2013
SANTA ANA – Law enforcement is seeking the public’s help identifying potential additional victims of a baseball coach charged with sending sexually explicit text messages to two teen boys. Edwin Alan Wikstrom, 53, Anaheim, is charged with two felony counts of distributing pornography to a minor. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of three [...]
Man Gets 8 Years In First OC Prop 35 Human Trafficking Case
By Orange County District Attorney’s Office on June 13th, 2013
FULLERTON – The first defendant in Orange County to be convicted of human trafficking under California’s Proposition 35 (Prop 35) was sentenced yesterday to eight years in state prison for trafficking a woman into Orange County and forcing her into prostitution. Mark Wesley Anderson, 27, Seattle, WA, pleaded guilty June 12, 2013, to one felony [...]