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Published 09/02/2010

Darryl Da Keis Gillard, 6-13-86, was arrested in Moreno Valley in connection with Cypress burglary crime spree.
Darryl Da Keis Gillard, 6-13-86, was arrested in Moreno Valley in connection with Cypress burglary crime spree. (Photo: Courtesy Cypress Police Department)

Over the last several months, the Cypress Police Department experienced an increase in residential burglaries throughout the city. During these crimes the suspect(s) forced their way into homes and stole laptops, expensive electronics, jewelry, currency, firearms, and other items of value.

Published 08/28/2010 - 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time

Ali Achekzai, 32, formerly of Ladera Ranch, arrived yesterday at Los Angeles International Airport from Austria to face multiple rape charges in Orange County.
Ali Achekzai, 32, formerly of Ladera Ranch, arrived yesterday at Los Angeles International Airport from Austria to face multiple rape charges in Orange County. (Photo: Courtesy Orange County District Attorney’s Office)

A man suspected of being an international serial rapist is in custody in Orange County after being extradited from Austria following a DNA match through INTERPOL. The defendant was featured on the Orange County District Attorney's (OCDA) Ten Most Wanted list.

Published 07/16/2010 - 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time

The Los Alamitos Police Department yesterday reported a Rossmoor couple was arrested, cited, and released for leaving a 2 ½ year old child locked alone in a car while the couple was inside Katella Deli, on Katella Avenue. Los Alamitos Police Captain Bruce McAlpine told www.OC180NEWS, the baby was left alone in the car for at least 15 minutes at around noon.

Published 07/09/2010 - 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California (Los Angeles) yesterday announced the government has finalized settlement of a “whistleblower” lawsuit in which an Orange County company that offered heart monitoring services will pay $3.6 million to resolve allegations that it defrauded government health care programs.

Published 06/22/2010 - 9:49 p.m. Pacific Time

A man who claims to be affiliated with an underground gang of hackers was arrested today on federal extortion charges that allege he hacked into dozens of computers, obtained personal data about people using the computers, and then demanded sexually explicit videos from female victims in exchange for keeping their personal information private.

Published 06/11/2010 - 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Daniel Patrick Wozniak, 26, Costa Mesa, is charged with two felony counts of special circumstances murder with special circumstance sentencing enhancements including multiple murders, murder for financial gain, and the personal discharge of a firearm causing death.
Daniel Patrick Wozniak, 26, Costa Mesa, is charged with two felony counts of special circumstances murder with special circumstance sentencing enhancements including multiple murders, murder for financial gain, and the personal discharge of a firearm causing death. (Photo: Courtesy Orange County District Attorney’s Office)

On Tuesday, only 20.5% of Orange County’s 1.6 million registered voters exercised their right to vote. Of those who did vote, only 71% cast any vote at all to select the peoples prosecutor—District Attorney. But, even though Tony Rackauckas was running unopposed, all of the 234,130 votes cast—100%—were voted to give Rackauckas his forth term as OCDA. We are not suggesting there is any connection between the election and his decision in this case, but the close proximity of the announcement and the election illustrates how our votes play out in the real world. Rackauckas announced he is seeking the death penalty against Daniel Patrick Wozniak in the decapitation/double murder case.

Published 05/14/2010 - 4:51 p.m. Pacific Time

Robert Daniel Barba, 24, Cypress, was arrested on the charges of Sodomy and Sexual Battery involving an early afternoon restroom assault on a Cypress College classmate.
Robert Daniel Barba, 24, Cypress, was arrested on the charges of Sodomy and Sexual Battery involving an early afternoon restroom assault on a Cypress College classmate. (Photo: Courtesy Cypress Police Department)

The Cypress Police Department reported the May 11, 2010 arrest of a suspect in a sexual assault case at Cypress College. Robert Daniel Barba, 24, Cypress, was arrested without incident. He was booked at the Cypress Jail on the charges of Sodomy and Sexual Battery. Mr. Barba was later transferred to the Orange County Jail where he is being held on $100,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in Court on June 4, 2010.

Published 03/23/2010 - 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time

He is convicted of attempting to molest a 13 year old girl, there is evidence that it was not the only time, he was a cop, the DA and the Department of Probation asked the judge for four years in state prison, and he only gets one year in jail plus probation. What’s wrong with this picture?
The judge is up for reelection in two years.

Published 03/12/2010 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time

After only serving just over three years in state prison, George Joseph England, 65, who spent 29 years as a fugitive after being found guilty of sexually assaulting three female children, also for 11 years molested Jackie Zudis, whom he purchased from her mother in Vietnam in the 1970s and claimed was his adopted daughter, was scheduled for release today.
After only serving just over three years in state prison, George Joseph England, 65, who spent 29 years as a fugitive after being found guilty of sexually assaulting three female children, also for 11 years molested Jackie Zudis, whom he purchased from her mother in Vietnam in the 1970s and claimed was his adopted daughter, was scheduled for release today. (Photo: Courtesy Orange County District Attorney’s Office.)

The scheduled release of yet another sexually violent predator raises the question of why this keeps happening. The Orange County District Attorney held a press conference to warn the community about a pending release, only to be interrupted to announce that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida was going to issue an arrest warrant which would prevent the release. But, if it was not for pending charges from an out of state jurisdiction, another convicted serial child molester would be released from prison today.

Published 07/13/2010 - 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time

The United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles yesterday announced a 33-year-old Long Beach man who collected $33 million from Southern California investors with false claims of large profits from real estate investments was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison for running the Ponzi scheme.

Published 07/08/2010 - 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Sean Patrick Patterson, 32, pleaded not guilty to attacking his father and barricading himself in the bathroom.
Sean Patrick Patterson, 32, pleaded not guilty to attacking his father and barricading himself in the bathroom. (Photo: Courtesy Cypress Police Department)

On Saturday, July 03, 2010, at 7:01 p.m., Cypress Police Officers responded to a residence in the 10300 block of St. Alban, regarding a male subject who assaulted his 66 year-old father and barricaded himself inside the bathroom.

Published 06/11/2010 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time

James Norkin, age 48, a registered sex offender with no known address, was arrested June 10, 2010 for child molestation on an Orange County Transit Authority bus.  The assault was captured on the bus’s security system and this led to his identification.
James Norkin, age 48, a registered sex offender with no known address, was arrested June 10, 2010 for child molestation on an Orange County Transit Authority bus. The assault was captured on the bus’s security system and this led to his identification. (Photo: Courtesy Orange County Sheriff’s Department)

A man was arrested in the second OCTA bus child molestation case in recent weeks. In this case, the OCTA’s bus security system was responsible for identifying the defendant, who is a registered sex offender.

Published 06/09/2010 - 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Brian Lewis Folsom, 46, was charged with three counts of felony attempted carjacking, with enhancements for personal use of a deadly weapon and three prior convictions for theft, car theft, and possession of a controlled substance.  The defendant pleaded not guilty.
Brian Lewis Folsom, 46, was charged with three counts of felony attempted carjacking, with enhancements for personal use of a deadly weapon and three prior convictions for theft, car theft, and possession of a controlled substance. The defendant pleaded not guilty. (Photo: Cypress Police Department)

In the early afternoon of June 3, 2010, the Cypress Police Department arrested a man for attempting to carjack three separate victims near the intersection of Lincoln and Bloomfield. Police received several 911 reports of a man with a large knife threatening cars near the intersection. Police also reported the defendant walked into a nearby beauty salon and threatened to kill employees and customers with the knife.

Published 05/12/2010 - 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Rehab Financial, Inc., RFI, had been in business for over 20 years and was used by many cities for escrow services. The City of Seal Beach began using RFI in 2006. According to Seal Beach Police Sergeant Steve Bowles, an investigation began “when Rehab Financial and its principals stopped returning telephone calls and abruptly vacated their Huntington Beach office.”

Published 03/19/2010 - 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time

An officer from the Los Alamitos Police Department, LAPD, at around 10:30 AM Wednesday, arrested two men in conjunction with a marijuana drug bust in the 3800 block of Howard Avenue. Seized were approximately 45 pounds of marijuana, worth about $132,000, reported the LAPD. According to LAPD Captain Bruce McAlpine, “This is pretty large for Los Alamitos. Typically when we seize narcotics, whether it is marijuana or some other type of drug, the amounts that we’re dealing with are a lot less, certainly less than a pound, so this is a very large arrest with a lot of weight.”

Published 03/10/2010 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time

David Walker Bryan, 40, Anaheim, is charged in a police internet sting with two felony counts of attempted lewd acts on a child under 14, one felony count of contacting a child with the intent to commit lewd acts, and one felony count of meeting a minor with the intent to commit lewd acts.
David Walker Bryan, 40, Anaheim, is charged in a police internet sting with two felony counts of attempted lewd acts on a child under 14, one felony count of contacting a child with the intent to commit lewd acts, and one felony count of meeting a minor with the intent to commit lewd acts. (Photo: Courtesy Orange County District Attorney’s Office.)

When 40 year old Anaheim registered sex offender David Walker Bryan, arrived at the location where he thought he was going to meet a 13 year old girl for sex, instead, he met the officers of the Huntington Beach Police Department, HBPD. Rather than acting upon pedophilic tendencies, Bryan now is in jail facing charges which could land him in state prison for up to 5 years. He pleaded not guilty.