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Orange County officers are cracking down on street racing events. Santa Ana police issued 27 citations, 25 impounds, four street ...

Bar Owner Faces One Year in Jail For Defying COVID-19 Rules A bar owner and manager’s criminal citation for allegedly defying the state-mandated curfew calls into question the limits of voluntary compliance enforcement. Although the Orange County Sheriff’s Department has said it won’t enforce state-level CCP (China Communist Party) virus-related orders, some cities are ticketing offenders. Costa Mesa is among the cities issuing fines to non-compliant residents and businesses. It recently ...

Santa Ana School Bus Driver Charged With Assaulting Two Girls SANTA ANA (CNS)—Felony charges were filed today against a 39-year-old school bus driver in Santa Ana who’s accused of sexually assaulting two young girls over a period of several years, starting when they were 7 and 8 years old. Nery Rodriguez Gonzalez of Upland is facing two counts each of continuous sexual abuse of a child and sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child 10 years or younger, and one count each of oral copulation o...

Police Arrest Suspect for Kidnapping Woman From Santa Ana Hotel Police arrested a 35-year-old convicted felon Dec. 29 after he allegedly kidnapped an 18-year-old woman at gunpoint from a hotel in Santa Ana, California. Santa Ana Police Department detectives tracked down the suspect—using hotel surveillance footage and witness descriptions—to his residence in Victorville. “They staked his residence out and then when he left, they pulled him over,” Cpl. Anthony Bertagna told The Epoch Tim...

Man Dies After Driving Car Into Train in Santa Ana A 61-year-old man was killed Dec. 21 when he drove his car into a moving train in Santa Ana, California. Santa Ana Police Department Cpl. Anthony Bertagna told The Epoch Times that witnesses at the scene saw a Caucasian man sitting in a white Chevrolet sedan in the train station parking lot near South Grand and East Hunter avenues around 12:30 p.m. before he pulled the car out of the lot, driving past the downed crossing gate and onto the railr...

Latinos in Santa Ana Attend Trump Rally, Question Election Integrity SANTA ANA, Calif.—A recent pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rally in Santa Ana, attended largely by Latinos, was not business as usual in the working-class city. Santa Ana is a Democratic stronghold. Among all cities in Orange County, it had the highest percentage of registered Democratic voters ahead of this election (about 53 percent versus 25 percent Republican) and voted most heavily in favor of Democratic presidential can...