Orange County Criminal Lawyer Blog

Santa Ana, Orange County - A gang member, of Santa Ana, was convicted of felony Assault with Deadly weapon for attacking a grandmother with a firearm during home invasion robbery. He'll be sentenced at West Justice Center in Westminster court.

He was also convicted of felony aggravated assault and battery with firearm causing great bodily injury, assault with a firearm, felony first degree robbery, felony false imprisonment by violence, and felony first degree residential burglary, elder abuse, street terrorism, and sentencing enhancements for criminal street gang activity.

Carlos Martinez, entered a Santa Ana home and assault the grandmother and mother with firearm. He was charged with prior strike for robbery. He is facing two life terms in prison.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Orange County - Huntington Beach surf legend, Joey Hawkins, was arrested for drug crime and gun crime. He has been charged with being under the influence of methamphetamine (meth) while having an unlawful firearm with him in Huntington Beach.

He was charged with 2 felony counts of drug possession, possession of methamphetamine and illegal firearms.

He was also charged with misdemeanor counts of being under the influence of drugs and possession of controlled substance. He also has an sentensing enhancement for having a gun while committing a felony.

He doesn't have any prior felony criminal record in Orange County, is held in Orange County jail. The next court hearing is set in the Westminster Courthouse.

GARDEN GROVE, Orange County - Orange County register reports a juvenile crime at Tuesday night involves with gun shots happened in Garden Grove, Orange County. No suspects have been found or identified yet.

Garden Grove, Orange County Police officers arrived the scene where the gun shots happened. When they responded to the gun fire, the police officers found two juveniles were shot and six bullet casings were also found after they got to the reported scene.

The gun shot was reported not related to the previous shooting in which two juveniles were shot in the leg.

Officers responded to Garden Grove gun fire on Tue and found two juveniles were shot when they arrived. Both young victims were taken to the hospital and it reported the injuries were not life threatening.

The details of the victims were not released and police suspected that the incident could relate to gang crimes.

Juveniles are the young people under the age of eighteen years old. They could be prosecuted the same ways just as adults.

And to parents surprise most of the time, that prosecutors can be as tough and aggressive to the juveniles as they are to adults.

Under the new California juvenile law, minors with charges of violent crimes can be treated as adults without a hearing before a juvenile judge.

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