Author name: CCAR Staff

HACIENDA HEIGHTS >> Authorities said a Hacienda Heights man allegedly tried to gun down an Uber driver he mistook for a rival gang member early Sunday. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday charged 23-year-old Bryan Orozco with attempted murder, possession of firearm by a felon and unlawful possession of ammunition, according to […]

SANTA ANA >> Santa Ana police arrested a man at his Costa Mesa home Saturday on suspicion of sexually assaulting his Uber customer. Angel Sanchez, 37, is being held on $100,000 bail at Santa Ana Jail, the police department announced Sunday. On Thursday night, a woman attending a company party in Newport Beach requested an […]

NORWALK >> Deputies are seeking a man who stabbed a senior citizen in a seemingly random and unprovoked attack at a Norwalk bus stop on Saturday afternoon. The bizarre crime took place about 1:20 p.m. at a bus stop in front of a Wienerschnitzel restaurant Imperial Highway and Woods Avenue, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. […]

FONTANA >> A motorist was last listed in critical condition following a head-on crash in Fontana Thursday morning. Just before 9 a.m., Fontana police officers were called to the area of Etiwanda Avenue north of Jurupa Avenue for a crash, according to a news release. Investigators learned a vehicle travelling south on Etiwanda Avenue crossed […]

ONTARIO >> An Eastvale woman was killed in a crash Thursday on the 60 Freeway, officials said. The 22-year-old woman was a passenger in a Toyota Corolla that was rear-ended by a box truck around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, said Sgt. Jeff Higbee, spokesman for the Ontario Police Department. “The other three occupants of the Toyota […]

SANTA ANA – A former Orange County Superior Court clerk pleaded guilty on Wednesday, March 29, to fixing more than 1,000 misdemeanor criminal cases and traffic offenses in exchange for bribe money over five years. In all, he took in $250,000 to $500,000. Jose Lopez Jr., 36, could face up to 20 years in federal […]

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> Archie Green III, the Fontana man convicted of broadsiding San Bernardino police Officer Bryce Hanes’ patrol vehicle, killing the officer, was sentenced Thursday to six years in jail. “On Nov. 5, 2015, I found out drinking and driving sentenced me to a life without my husband,” said a tearful Alice Hanes as […]

WALNUT >> A West Covina man received a 4-year prison sentence on Thursday for fatally striking a Walnut man while driving intoxicated, authorities said. Haissam Massalkhy, 37, pleaded “no contest” in February to a count of vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence for the Feb. 15, 2016, collision at La Puente Road and Barnard Avenue that […]

YUCAIPA >> A Moreno Valley man died more than a week after he crashed his motorcycle in Yucaipa earlier this month, officials said. Matthew R. Nickels, 32, was riding his motorcycle west on Calimesa Boulevard near Oak Glen Road in Yucaipa along with a friend on another motorcycle on the evening of March 13, when […]