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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.