Orange County Bail Bonds

Each year, police officers across the nation get ready for the Super Bowl by making sure there are enough officers to patrol their communities. Whether or not people are getting together to support a team or not, it is more than likely alcohol will be involved. On February 3, officers with the Orange County Sheriff's Department  and other local law enforcement agencies arrested a significant number of people for drinking and driving. According to a sheriff's department statement, officers arrested 43 individuals for being under the influence of alcohol or drugs while they were operating their vehicles. Although there weren't any deaths …

The man accused of shooting and killing eight people at a Seal Beach salon was pepper-sprayed and restrained by authorities at the Theo Lacy jail,  where he is being held while awaiting trial. According to KTLA, Scott Dekraai became disruptive at the jail January 26, screamed and charged at jail guards.

In order to contain him, deputies at the jail teamed up with protective shields. After Dekraai began throwing things at the protective windows of the jail, officers fired pepper balls at Dekraai, according to the Orange County Register. He then charged towards the officers and was wrestled to the ground.

After he was subdued, …

A group of volunteers started visiting the immigration detainees at the Orange County jails. The immigration inmates have no legal right to a visit from family or friends, the Voice of Orange County reported, but the government does allow limited visits.

“The visits have been quite moving for all of us involved, including the detainees,” Jan Meslin, the coordinator of the group Friends of Orange County Detainees, told the source.

The visits by the group began in September. Months later, in November, the National Detention Watch Network cited the maximum-security Theo Lacy Jail in Orange County as one of the worst U.S. …

Police have identified the man who was recently found stabbed to death in a Santa Ana parking lot at the Hickory Plaza, according to the Orange County Register. The Santa Ana Police Department responded to calls of a man covered in blood, and found the victim later identified as 38-year-old Jaime Mejia Zaragoza.

The Register reported that Zaragoza died from several stab wounds to his upper body. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities believe Zaragoza, whom they determined as “on and off homeless,” frequented the plaza. Investigators also believe that there were other individuals with Zaragoza in the parking lot in the time leading up to the …

An inmate at the Theo Lacy Jail in Orange County was seriously injured in a recent attack inside the facility. The Orange County Register reported the inmate, a 28-year-old man, had a large cut across his throat after the attack in a medium-security module of the jail while inmates were eating dinner.

The injury was serious, but not life-threatening, Jim Amormino, spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff's Department told the source. He was taken to Western Medical Center - Santa Ana.

Sheriff deputies have not been able to find the stabbing weapon used in the jail attack, the article stated. After …

Santa Ana police made an arrest in a January 10 hit-and-run accident that killed a 75-year-old man. Victor Manuel Arredondo Anaya was arrested by the Santa Ana Police Department after officers identified debris on the vehicle he was driving that matched the debris found at the crime scene, CBS reported.

A local resident saw the dark blue BMW at the intersection of First Street and Grand Avenue. The vehicle matched the description of the car police said hit and killed Miguel Chaves Ceja as he was walking near Edinger and Orange avenues in the early morning. The resident notified the …

A 47-year-old man is being held at the Orange County Jail on suspicion of home burglary and for committing a crime while out of bail, the Orange County Register reported. Officers found Nhan Quoc Che is leaving the entryway of a Westminster home around 10 a.m. January 9 wearing gloves. Police had received a frantic 911 call from the resident of the home saying she heard someone trying to get into the house through the front and back doors, the article stated.

Police are also investigating whether or not Che is tied to other burglaries in the area, the Register …

A year and several months after California's prison realignment program went into place in order to alleviate inmate overcrowding, state Governor Jerry Brown announced January 8 that the prison crisis in California is over. He said it is time the federal government remove its cap on state prison populations and end its oversight on the mental health services offered to inmates at the lockups, the Orange County Register reported.

California has made improvements to the prison system, and it's time the federal government return control to the state, Brown said. The issues of overcrowding and mental health care conditions at …