The SAPD cracks down on illegal guns in a two-week surge of arrests
Santa Ana, CA — In a continued effort to combat gun violence and enhance public safety, the Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) has released a summary of recent firearm-related incidents and arrests spanning from June 28 to July 11, 2025. The department’s proactive enforcement strategies, in collaboration with...
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Bruce Praet is a well-known name in law enforcement, especially in California. He co-founded a company called Lexipol that contracts with more than 95 percent of police departments in the state and offers its clients trainings and ready-made policies. In one of Praet’s online training webinars, he offers a piece...
Coroner identifies two people killed in Interstate 10 crash on Thursday
Update: This story has been updated with new information. The identities of the two people who died in a deadly big-rig crash on eastbound Interstate 10 on Thursday morning in Cathedral City were released by the Riverside County Coroner. Francisco Sicairos Leon, 58, of Desert Hot Springs and Miguel Macias, 49 of...
Koreatown Community Rallies To Reclaim Our Streets From ICE Terror
Southern California communities have been coming together in a series of Reclaim Our Streets events to uplift immigrant communities and protest ICE raids. Last week saw events in Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles. Around 250-300 people attended yesterday's event, which took place at Seoul International Park in...
U.S. Attorney’s Office Quietly Drops Case Against American Citizen Arrested In Montebello
This week, the United States Attorney’s Office quietly dismissed a case against an American citizen accused of resisting arrest by Border Patrol, according to court documents reviewed by L.A. TACO. Javier Ramirez was arrested on June 12 at a mechanic shop in Montebello. Surveillance video footage shows that several...
$15,000 in cash and 1 pound of Heroin: California deputy caught smuggling drugs into...
Los Angeles, California – A deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department admitted in federal court Wednesday
A crisis of faith: ICE raids force some churches to take ‘extraordinary’ action
As word spread among Catholics that immigration agents were visiting places of worship to carry out deportations, the pews inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles became less and less crowded.
Man arrested after leading officers on high-speed chase in L.A. County
A suspect was arrested after leading officers on a high-speed chase through Los Angeles and Orange counties Friday night. The suspect was reportedly wanted for grand theft and the chase began out of the Orange County area. The driver hit speeds over 100 miles per hour on the freeway before exiting onto surface...
DAILY MEMO: Women in Downey Save a Man From Agents & More
A group of women are seen defending a man knocked off his bike and surrounded by federal agents preventing his arrest. Santa Ana was hit hard today and Camarillo saw a military raid on a farm. In Oxnard, a hospital closed the door on agents who were quickly surrounded by protesters.
Suspect arrested for armed robbery in Orange County
A suspect was arrested in connection with an armed robbery in Orange County. The suspect was identified as Jonathan Lopez, 22, of Santa Ana, according to the Santa Ana Police Department. On May 10, police responded to a robbery at a shopping plaza at 3321 S. Bristol Street in Santa Ana, near the South Coast […]