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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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Brent Wilcox, 35, Cypress, arrested for shooting a business associate in the head
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A houseguest visiting a business acquaintance in Cypress was shot in the head Monday evening. Police said it was not an accident and not suicide. Cypress Police arrested Brent Christopher Wilcox, 35, who resided at residence.
The Seal Beach Police Department reported that last night, at around 8:20 pm, a Hispanic man held up the Starbucks at Seal Beach Blvd. and Westminster Ave. The lone suspect was brandishing a firearm, but there were no customers in the shop at the time and none of the employees were injured. The robber probably is not a Starbucks customer, because if he was, he would know they keep very little cash in the register.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.)
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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.
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Rodney James Alcala, 66, a serial murderer, was convicted for the third time of the 1979 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. He was also convicted of murdering four Los Angeles County women in the late 1970’s.
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Yesterday an Orange County jury convicted a serial murderer of the 1979 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. This was the third time the killer, Rodney James Alcala, 66, has been convicted of this crime. He was also convicted in the same trial of raping and murdering four Los Angeles County women in the 1970s.
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Tyrone Donte Gray, 33, Los Angeles, Boyfriend of Tyrica Jenice Goff, Charged by the Orange County District Attorney in a 99-count criminal complaint including felony second degree commercial burglary, felony forgery, felony street terrorism, misdemeanor receiving stolen property, sentencing enhancements for loss over $100,000, aggravated white collar crime over $500,000, property damage over $65,000, criminal street gang activity, and crime-bail-crime.
(Photo: Courtesy Orange County District Attorney’s Office)
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Four suspects were arrested yesterday, and two more are being sought in a case where a Seal Beach Police Department, SBPD, Detective provided a major break in the case. SBP Detective David Barr, no relation to this writer, performed the initial investigation which led to collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service and the cracking of a fraud ring. According to a release from the Orange county District Attorney’s Office, “These crimes were committed throughout several Southern California counties including Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Riverside.”
