Orange County Jail Inmate Dies From COVID-19 Complications
An Orange County, California, man suspected of murder has become the first person to die from COVID-19 while in county custody.
Eddie Lee Anderson, 68, died Dec. 18, about a week after testing positive for COVID-19. The Theo Lacy Facility inmate was transferred to a hospital on Dec. 13 for treatment.
Anderson was arrested in 2019 in connection with the 1976 strangulation of 30-year-old Leslie Penrod Harris, who disappeared after leaving a Costa Mesa restaurant on May 17, 1976. Her body was discovered the next morning. Police have credited DNA with helping them crack the 43-year-old case.
According to a statement released Dec. 18 by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, 1,260 inmates have tested positive for the virus since the beginning of the pandemic. The sheriff’s website indicates there are currently 626 inmates with the disease.
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The family of a Black man shot dead by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy in San Clemente in an encounter captured on video sued the county on Thursday, alleging the death was a result of a homeless detail that disproportionately targets people of color and is ill-equipped to deal with mental illness.
Kurt Andras Reinhold, a well-educated, youth soccer coach and father of two, died Sept. 23 after two deputies approached him on as he walked in a San Clemente street, tried to stop him, tackled him to the ground and then one of them shot him twice. A bystander
Officials Warn Orange County Residents: Beware of Vaccine Scams
Officials in Orange County are warning the public about scams related to the newly arrived COVID-19 vaccines.
The first shots were given to health care workers at local hospitals on Dec. 16, shortly after the first shipment of Pfizer vaccines arrived in the county. Officials have said health care workers and long-term care residents will receive the initial inoculations, with the program expanding as more vaccines become available.
But while the general public waits for details of vaccine availability, county officials are warning that potential scammers might try to take advantage of the situation by trying to coax money out of unsuspecting targets.
By City News Service
Dec 16, 2020
SANTA ANA (CNS) - An American Civil Liberties Union attorney accused Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer of “baseless scaremongering for publicly criticizing a defendant s motion to lower his bail in an Irvine kidnapping case days after an Orange County Superior Court judge ordered the jail population to be cut in half during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ezra Schley, 72, of Huntington Beach, has been in custody since Aug. 30, 2019, on $1 million bail. His attorney, David Swanson, unsuccessfully tried in March when the pandemic began to get his bail lowered and filed another motion on Monday following Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson s ruling Friday.