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County officials investigate large sites for vaccination centers, such as school gyms or parking lots, to be central vaccination locations. (Carly Baldwin / Patch Staff Photo)
ORANGE COUNTY, CA As coronavirus infections run rampant across Orange County and the state of California, local officials are working on a plan to help all hospitals vaccinate residents. According to Orange County s CEO, Frank Kim, medical workers are swamped caring for patients. We have to quickly work on a large-scale vaccination plan, Kim said Wednesday. We can t rely on CVS, Walgreens, and the local hospital system. They re overwhelmed. We need to pitch in, and every county has been asked by the state to increase support for vaccine distribution. We hope to turn it into implementation very soon. We re very close to completing agreements on sites.
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The owner and an employee of a Southern California bar and restaurant could each face a year behind bars following a dispute at the business in mid-December, according to a report.
Authorities say the Costa Mesa bar’s manager, Luiza Mauro, is accused of physically trying to prevent a uniformed police officer from entering the Westend Bar on Dec. 12, FOX 11 of Los Angeles reported.
Meanwhile, Mauro’s boss – bar owner Roland Barrera – is accused of repeatedly opening the business in violation of coronavirus-related restrictions and curfews, the report said.
Orange County Bar Owner Faces Year In Jail For Opening During COVID Lockdown
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Roland Michael Barrera, the owner of the Eastend Bar in Costa Mesa, California, could be sentenced to up to a year in jail for keeping the establishment open despite COVID-19 mitigation restrictions calling for the closure of non-essential businesses, city officials said Thursday.
Citing a rise in COVID-19 cases statewide, public health officials in California issued a limited stay-at-home order in November. Costa Mesa restaurants were ordered to be closed at 10:00 p.m. with only delivery and take-out orders to be provided after that time. The Eastend Bar declined to follow those orders despite repeated visits from authorities.
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LOS ANGELES If ever there were a fox in the henhouse it’s new Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. He is far more concerned with defendants’ happiness than victims’ justice and his subordinates are calling him out.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles County are asking a judge for an order that would keep them from enforcing new directives from Gascón that would require them to be lenient in their sentencing recommendations for specified types of offenders.
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The Association of Deputy District Attorney’s for Los Angeles County (ADDA) claimed in a lawsuit filed that the directives would mean violating state laws that require enhanced sentences in certain cases, Fox News reported.
Orange County DA Criticizes Decision to Release Serial Felon With COVID to Home Confinement
Orange CountyDistrict Attorney Todd Spitzer has criticized a decision by a Superior Court judge to release a Beverly Hills surgeon charged with 88 felonies from the county jail due to complications from COVID-19, allowing him to await trial under house arrest in Brentwood.
Dr. Randy Rosen, 57, has been charged with hiring body brokers to pay patients at sober-living facilities to undergo unnecessary surgeries and medical procedures, amassing a $29 million fortune by billing insurance companies for the treatments through his Beverly Hills clinic.
Rosen pleaded not guilty to all 88 felony counts, including multiple charges of fraud and money laundering, on July 2, and his bail was set at $10 million. But on Dec. 17, Superior Court Judge Sheila Hanson released Rosen, who had contracted COVID-19, so he could be placed on GPS electronic monitoring and sent home.