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Santa Ana Police Forensics Unit leaves no evidence unturned
CSI: Santa Ana is the real deal. Long before Gil Grisson and Catherine Willows began chasing bad guys and proclaiming,…
Halloween can be ghoulishly great, as long as everyone is safe
Halloween: ghosts and goblins, witches and warlocks, and, this year especially, Barbies and Kens. And while trick-or-treating is evolving, estimates…
During his 36 years with the Santa Ana Police Department, including the past 30 as a gang investigator, Detective Jeff…
Stories about the sharp rise in violent crime seem to be on every news broadcast and posted across social media…
As Santa Ana Police Chief David Valentin chatted with a writer, a report came across his desk. His department had…
State Sen. Josh Newman led an effort to secure $7.8 million to sustain and expand the innovative, impactful and successful…
It has been more than year since Community Relations Specialists Janeth Jimenez and Edwina Tripp have organized any in person…
Unsolved and cold-case murders are among the worst police come across. Without a killer caught, without resolution, the loss lingers.…