Todd Spitzer is an American attorney and politician serving as the district attorney of Orange County,California. Spitzer successfully ran for Orange County district attorney in 2018 against incumbent Tony Rackauckas. Spitzer had previously served as a deputy district attorney from 1990 to 1996 and,under Rackauckas,as assistant district attorney from 2008 to 2010.
Thomas and Jackie Hawks were a couple from Prescott,Arizona,United States,who were murdered in 2004.
The Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) is the law enforcement agency serving Orange County,California. It currently serves the unincorporated areas of Orange County and thirteen contract cities in the county:Aliso Viejo,Dana Point,Laguna Hills,Laguna Niguel,Laguna Woods,Lake Forest,Mission Viejo,Rancho Santa Margarita,San Clemente,San Juan Capistrano,Stanton,Villa Park,and Yorba Linda.
Leroy David Baca is a former American law enforcement officer and convicted felon who served as the 30th Sheriff of Los Angeles County,California from 1998 to 2014. In 2017,he was convicted of felony obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI.
Public Enemy No. 1,also known as PENI Death Squad,is a prison and street gang formed in Long Beach,California and now based in Orange County,California. In 2004,the California Department of Justice described PEN1 as "one of the most powerful and fastest-growing gangs inside and outside prison",and reported it had about 200 members statewide. The gang's main activities include identity theft,credit card fraud,and methamphetamine sales.
The Fullerton Police Department of Fullerton,California,was established in 1904 when the city incorporated. The Fullerton Police Department currently employs 153 sworn officers and 78 civilian employees. It has a budget of about $35 million. The current chief is David Hendricks. The department has a Uniform Division,a Service Division and a Detective Division all commanded by officers in the rank of captain.
Arthur Paul Carmona served more than two years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of two armed robberies on the basis of eyewitness testimony. His case took on prominence in the ongoing debate in the legal community over the reliability of eyewitness identification. After his release,he had become an activist for the wrongfully accused.
Anthony Joseph Rackauckas Jr. is a former District Attorney of Orange County,California and a former Superior Court judge.
David Ormon Carter is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
The California Council on Criminal Justice (CCCJ) is an entity of the government of California that acts as the supervisory board concerning federal grants by the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and an advisory board for other requirements of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968. It was created by the Deukmejian-Moretti Act of 1967.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Englewood is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Colorado. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP),a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an administrative detention center and an adjacent satellite prison camp for minimum-security offenders.
Kelly Thomas was a homeless man diagnosed with schizophrenia who lived on the streets of Fullerton,California. He died five days after being severely beaten by six members of the Fullerton Police Department whom he encountered on July 5,2011,in what was later described as "one of the worst police beatings in [US] history."
The Orange County Employees Association (OCEA),located in Santa Ana,California,is a public employee labor union in Orange County,representing about 18,000 employees. OCEA was founded in 1937.
The Anaheim police shootings and protests of July 2012 involve two fatal shootings by police officers in Anaheim,California,and subsequent public protests. On July 21,Manuel Diaz was shot and killed by Anaheim Police officer Nick Bennallack after he ran from the officers. Protests ensued after the shooting. On July 22,Joel Acevedo was shot and killed by Anaheim police in an alleged exchange of gunfire,making the seventh fatal shooting by an officer in Anaheim in twelve months. Both shootings were ruled justified by the Orange County District Attorney's Office,but a federal jury later found Officer Bennallack guilty of excessive force.
Brian Alfred Sun is an American trial lawyer and partner of the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright in the Los Angeles office. His areas of practice are white collar criminal defense,LA-based entertainment litigation,and political sagas,and has been involved in high-profile criminal trials.
Stuart Anthony Tay,was an American teenager from Orange County,California and a student at Foothill High School. Five teenagers believed that Tay was planning to betray them in a planned theft of computer equipment,so they arranged to kill him. All of the perpetrators were students at Sunny Hills High School. Most of the perpetrators had planned to attend elite colleges and universities,including Ivy League schools.
On January 22,2016,three inmates of the Orange County Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana,California,escaped from the jail's maximum-security unit by climbing through the plumbing pipes and ascending to the roof. They stole a utility van and a taxi in Los Angeles,taking the taxi driver hostage,and drove to San Jose. One inmate,Bac Duong,went along with the hostage driver back to Southern California and surrendered to police in Santa Ana on January 29. The other two inmates,Hossein Nayeri and Jonathan Tieu,were arrested in San Francisco on January 30. Multiple people were arrested for allegedly aiding the inmates to escape,including a jail teacher.
The 2018 Orange,County,California District Attorney election took place on June 5,2018 for the first round. Because no candidate received a majority in the first round,a runoff took place November 6,2018,to elect the Orange County,California District Attorney. County-level elections in California are officially nonpartisan. Because no candidate received a majority,a runoff was held on November 6,2018.
Numerous police and international intelligence agencies classify the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club as a motorcycle gang and contend that members carry out widespread violent crimes,including drug dealing,trafficking in stolen goods,gunrunning,extortion,and prostitution rings. Members of the organization have continuously asserted that they are only a group of motorcycle enthusiasts who have joined to ride motorcycles together,to organize social events such as group road trips,fundraisers,parties,and motorcycle rallies,and that any crimes are the responsibility of the individuals who carried them out and not the club as a whole.
