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There they spoke to a 30-year-old woman who had suffered “various physical injuries.” She identified her boyfriend – Gonzalo Dominguez, 35 – as her assailant. The woman warned officers he owned several firearms.
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A suspect in a commer cial burglary in West minster on Tuesday was arrested by police when found hiding – where else? – in a trash can.
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THE OFFENSE GETS ALL THE GLORY, BUT ... often it’s the defense that wins the games. Above, Garden Grove High’s Isaac Garcia (35) and Joseph Vasquez (50) hit a Santa Ana ballcarrier for a stop in the Argonauts’ 19-7 victory Thursday night at Monsoor Stadium. Story, more photos on pages 5, 6.
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Three of four major met rics tracking the state of the coronavirus in Orange County showed reverses in the latest summary. but the numbers remained relatively low by historic standards.InFriday’s report from the county health care agency, the three-day total of confirmed new cases (covering Aug. 30 to Sept. 1) was 1,327, which aver ages out to 442.33 daily. That’s up a bit from Tues day’s report which shows a daily average of 416. However, one month ago the average was 955 new cases per day.
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– California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s controversial proposal to steer homeless people with severe mental disorders into treatment cleared the state Assem bly on Tuesday and is on its way to becoming law despite objections from civil liberties advocates who fear it will be used to force unhoused residents into care they don’t want. Orange County is among several counties which must soon establish spe cial courts to deal with the issue.Homeless people with severe mental health dis orders often cycle among the streets, jail and hos pitals, with no one entity responsible for their wellbeing.They can be held against their will at a psychiat ric hospital for up to 72 hours. But once stabi lized, a person who agrees to continue taking medi cation and follow up on services must be released. The bill the state Assem bly approved on Tuesday by a 60-2 vote would re quire counties to set up a special civil court to pro cess petitions brought by family, first responders and others on behalf of an individual diagnosed Shakespeare wrote: “He who steals my purse steals trash.”
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The incident took place around 11:30 p.m. in the 14100 block of Willow Lane.Asearch of his vehicle found a BB-gun modi fied to resemble an as sault rifle, say police.
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In Friday’s report, deaths rose from six to seven and A confrontation between Anaheim police and a man accused of beating a woman led to gunfire ear ly Friday morning, but no one was Accordingshot.to the APD, the incident took place in the 2700 block of West Park side Lane near Boisseranc Park and south of the Ar tesia (91) Freeway. Officers responded to an Anaheim area hospital around 12:19 a.m. to in vestigate a report of a do mestic violence incident.
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Just as APD officers ar rived at the suspect’s home, they received word that Dominguez was “threatening to shoot someone.”Shortlyafter 2:30 a.m., he
The proposal had broad support from lawmakers who said it was clear California had to do some thing about the mental health crisis visible along highways and in city Supportersstreets.relayed harrowing tales of watching loved ones cycle in and out of temporary psychiatric holds, without a mechanism to stabilize them in a long-term treatment plan. left his home through the garage holding an AR-15-style assault rifle.
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A confrontation occurred and an officer-involved shooting took place, but no one was wounded. The suspect retreated back into hisNegotiationhouse. with the suspect concluded with Dominguez sur rendering at 3:24 a.m. He was arrested for a variety of charges including domestic violence, as sault with a deadly weapon and assault on a police officer. the use of intensive care units to treat COVID-19 patients in in creased from 25 to 28. However, hospitalizations fell from 220 to The206. total of OC deaths from coronavirus is 7,357.
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Anaheim officer involved shooting with specified disorders, such as schizophrenia and other psychi atric disorders. The court could order a plan lasting up to 12 months, and re newable for another 12 months. An individual facing a criminal charge could avoid punishment by completing a mental health treatment plan. A person who does not agree to a treatment plan could be compelled into it. Newsom has said he hopes these courts catch people before they fall into the criminal court sys tem.The bill represents a new ap proach for California to address homelessness, a crisis the state has struggled with for decades. The state government spends billions of dollars on the issue each year, only for the public to perceive little progress on the streets.“Ibelieve that this bill is an op portunity for us to write a new narrative,” said Assemblymem ber Mike Gipson, a Democrat who voted for the bill.
The bill has now passed both houses of the state Legislature and needs one more vote in the state Senate before it will go to Newsom’s desk. Newsom has until the end of September to sign it into law.
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There’s good news and progress toward solving problems in our Orange County cities. The news business is, I’m sorry to say, largely about bad news. Readers and viewers respond with more attention – generally – to deadly car crashes, love triangles ending in shootings, and somebody else’s troubles. That makes for “good news” for us, because more eyeballs means more advertising, which keeps us from going into honest work like telemarketing or used car sales. Retorts Jim Tortolano And yet, our cold, dark hearts are not totally immune to the possibility that – some times – things might be get ting better, especially on the local scene. So here is the first and prob ably quite rare Good News edition of the Retorts column.
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September is Pedes trian Safety Month, and the Huntington Beach Police Department will participate in activities throughout the month to encourage the safety of peopleBasedwalking.ondata projec tions from the Governors Highway Safety Asso ciation (GHSA), 7,485 people, or an average of 20 people every day, died after being struck by a vehicle last year –an 11.5 percent increase from 2020 and a 40-year high.“People should not feel in danger walking,” Huntington Beach Police Department Sgt. Mike Thomas said. “Drivers, please slow down and be aware of people walk ing. If we look out for one another, we can all get where we need to go Continued on page 5
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One of Huntington Beach’s most iconic landmarks is getting a newOceanname.Plaza, a 15-story office tower at Beach Boulevard and Warner Avenue,will be rebrand ed as Point Break Tower at Ocean Plaza. The 205,000-square foot building located on a 8.65 care lot includes a six-story parking structure and offers of fice space from 400 to 44,000 square feet. The owner, Omni Group
Coronavirus: Although the bug is not totally defeated –wash your hands, y’all – it does appear to be on the run, allowing society to return to normal, less or more. The whole experience did not bring out the best in human nature, frankly.
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– A New Jersey man who posed as a former New Eng land Patriots player in order to buy and sell Super Bowl rings that he claimed were gifts to Tom Brady’s family was sentenced Monday to three years in fed eralScottprison.V.Spina Jr., 25, of Roseland was sentenced by a judge in Orange County. In 2017, Spina bought a Patriots’ 2016 Super Bowl championship ring from a Patriots player who then left the team. Prosecutors said Spina paid the player – identified only as T.J. – with at least one bad check and sold the ring for $63,000 to an Orange County broker of championship rings. “When Spina obtained the player ring, he also received the information that allowed the former player to purchase Super Bowl rings for family and friends that are slightly smaller than the player rings,” the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement.Spinathen called the company that made the rings, claimed to be the for mer player and ordered three familyand-friend rings with “Brady’’ en graved on them, claiming they were gifts for Brady’s baby, prosecutors said.“The rings were at no time authorized by Tom Brady,” according to the crimi nalSpinacomplaint.agreed to sell the rings for $81,500 to the same Orange County broker who bought the original ring, contending that Brady had given them to his nephews. The broker later tried to withdraw from the deal because he “started to believe that Brady did not have nephews,’’ according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Continued on page 5
Homelessness: Sometime it takes things to get bad before they get stop getting worse. After decades of trying to wish the problems of the unsheltered away, our cities are finally gaining some traction with con crete measures to create “navigation centers” to be gin the process of reversing the rising tide of people on the street. Huntington Beach led the way with its nav center and is taking aim at a more permanent ap proach with supportive housing (i.e., a place to live) and now Garden Grove and Westminster are joining with Fountain Valley on establishing a nav center in the City of Youth and Ambition. Don’t expect the parks and medians to become pristine overnight, but there is light at the end of the
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Continued from page 3 can squeeze out of it. There are such people, and –in general – those folks are not running philanthropic enterpris es. But nothing much gets built without them. If a community needs an amenity or more tax revenue, those are the folks you need.Looking across West Orange County, we see (or foresee) a revived Westminster Mall, three new major hotels in Garden Grove on Harbor Boulevard and a skyline of mid-rise hous ing along Beach Boulevard in Stanton.There’s more on the list and more coming behind that. Yes, it brings more traffic and pollu tion and other downsides, but they also mean more jobs, more economic vitality and revenue to hire more cops and firefight ers and recreation folks.
Caring more about their po litical futures than the public interest, some members of the council – you know who you are – willingly ignored the reality that if the tax was not renewed, they would become members of the very last city council before the municipal ity descended into bankruptcy. Future maps would mark the area as “The Community Formerly Known as The City of Westminster.” Now it’s up to the voters, who seems to be more finan cially astute than some elected officials. We will see if they are on Nov. 8. Sticks In the Ground: It’s fashionable in some quarters to make developers into vil lains. There is an image of them as rapacious carpetbag gers who care naught about a community except for how much more much money they
Continued from page 3 Pedestrians safely.”HBPD offers safe driving and walking tips, including staying off the phone when be hind the wheel or walking: Drivers • Do not speed, and slow down at intersections. Be prepared to stop pedestriansfor at marked and un marked crosswalks.
• Avoid blocking crosswalks while waiting to make a righthand turn.
• Watch for approaching vehi cles and practice due care cross ing the street. At 30 mph, a driver needs at least 90 feet to stop.
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• Make it easier for drivers to see you at night – wear light col ors, reflective material and use a flashlight.
… uh … alley. Money sense over me-first: The greatest sigh of relief heard over Westminster in years was heard when the city council – grudgingly and at the last minute – agreed to place an extension of the one percent Measure SS sales tax before voters in November.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill’s remarks about the benefits of democracy, capital ism – with some honest and robust oversight – may not be a perfect system, but it’s better than all the alternatives we’ve seen so far around the world.
• Never drive impaired. Pedestrians • Be predictable. Use signal ized crosswalks where drivers may anticipate foot traffic.
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In November 2017, the same day that the buyer tried to back out, Spina sold the rings to an auction house for $100,000 –much more than he’d paid for them, prosecutors said. At a February 2018 auction, one of them sold for more than $337,000, authorities said. Spina pleaded guilty on Feb. 1. to one count of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for posing as the former Patriots player, falsely telling the broker that the family rings were ordered by Brady and de frauding him in connection with three wire transfers for the de posit.Athis sentencing, the judge also ordered Spina to pay $63,000 in restitution to the former Patriots player who sold him the genuine Super Bowl ring.
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Late effort leads Edison to win over Orange Lutheran Edison High’s football team scored three times in the fourth quarter to pull away to a 34-13 win over Lutheran High of Or ange Friday night at Sheue Field on the Huntington Beach High campus.TheChargers (3-0), ranked sixth in Orange County, beat the Lancers (2-1, ranked fifth) in this non-league game with a touchdown pass from Parker Awad and two rushing TDs by Carter Hogue in the final quar ter. Hogue finished with 138 yardsEdison’srushing.defense did its part, too, grabbing three interceptions and getting four sacks. The next opponent for greenand-gold will be Palos the Verdes High in a game next Thursday at Bill Boswell Field on the West minster High campus. In other area high school foot ball results, Mater Dei defeated Centennial High of Corona 4320 in Corona Friday night. Quarterback Elijah Brown completed 16 of 21 passes for the Monarchs, worth 298 yards and three scores. His favorite target was Marcus Brown with 186 yards receiving and three touchdowns.
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Planners won’t meet until The meeting of the Stanton Planning Commission sched uled for Wednesday, Sept. 7 has been cancelled. The next regular meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. Continued from page 3 News Briefs 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers, 7800 Katella Ave. GG Zoning Admin meeting cancelled The regular meeting of the Gar den Grove Zoning Adminis trator scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 8 at 9 a.m. has been can celled. Three new eateries at Pacific City center A trio of new restaurants is coming to the Pacific City cen ter near the pier in Huntington TheyBeach.are:•TheBrant Kitchen & Bar fea turing salads, sandwiches, steak and seafood entrees • Kai Lounge, a modern Japa nese dining experience with a taste of the bustling nightlife of Tokyo•Nardo, a family-owned restau rant of southern Italian cuisine with “a modern twist.” yard TD pass from Torres for the finalThroughoutresult. the game, penalties had an impact. One fourth-down punt play had to be done a total of five times because of the yel low“Eighteenstuff. penalties,” said Cepeda. “That kept their drives going. We probably should have had 35 points, at least.” Reducing penalties is key to an other banner year for this redand-white and to meet expecta tions on Stanford Avenue. “Our goal is to win every game,” said Cepeda, adding “and to win our league and make a deep run into the playoffs.’ The Argonauts will be in action next Thursday against the Gahr Gladiators at Artesia High. The Saints will seek their first win next Thursday hosting Buena Park High.
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MALACHI BEY (28) was the hero in Thursday’s 19-7 win over Santa Ana in the Argo home opener (Photos by Jim Tortolano).
The red-and-white of Garden Grove defeated the red-andwhite of Santa Ana 19-7 on Thursday night, but yellow was the dominant color at Monsoor Stadium.Yellow as in the penalty flags that officials threw in that nonleague contest. I counted 18, but it could have been more because I was running out of fingers and toes.“We are usually a disciplined team,” said Argonaut coach Ri cardo Cepeda, “but we had a lot of undisciplined errors. Some of those penalties could have gone either way, but we’ve got to play cleaner.”Indeedthe Argonauts, now 2-0, were sometimes their own worst enemy with three turnovers, one of them a fumble into the end zone from the one-foot line.
Friday was a tough night for LAOC baseball teams playing league rivals, as both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels suffered defeats. In Anaheim, the Angels fell 4-2 to the visiting Houston Astros. Each team had seven hits, but the visitors made better use of theirs, scoring twice each in the third and fifthTheinnings.Halos(57-75) closed to with in two runs with a pair of scores in the sixth. Matt Duffy’s ground rule double and a sacrifice fly ac counted for the runs. Reid Detmers (5-5) took the loss, working 4.1 innings while giv ing up seven hits and four earned runs. He struck out six batters and walked two more. At Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers (90-41) were thumped 7-1 by the San Diego Padres. The visitors launched three home Baseball runs and got an outstanding pitch ing performance by Yu Darvish. He threw seven innings, giving up just two hits and no runs, strik ing out nine batters and walking none.Joey Gallo drove in the sole Dodgers’ run with a single in the ninth, bringing in Justin Turner to break the shutout. The Angels and Dodgers have the same matchups on Saturday. Shohei Ohtani (11-8) will start for the Halos and Julio Urias (14-7) for the Blue Crew.
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The keys to the eventual suc cess of Grove were a stout de fense and the play of Malachi Bey, an all-CIF performer in 2021 and MVP of the Big Four League. “Malachi played amazing,” said Cepeda. “He was cramping up a bit but he had over 200 yards rushing and some real long runs.”Indeed. Late in the first quarter, Bey caught a 45-yard pass from Branden Roth to put the ball in the shadow of the Saint goal line. Daniel Martinez carried it in for a 7-0 Argo lead at 2:48. Early in the third quarter, the Saints were driving but on a key third down play, Mykel Isguerra sacked quarterback Sergio Tor res for a loss. The ensuing punt traveled all the way to the Argo nautNotsix.toworry. On the next play, Bey busted off tackle and raced 94 yards for a touchdown and a 13-0 lead. He put the finishing touches on the game with a 63yard touchdown run at 3:09 of the fourth quarter. The Saints (now 0-3) got on the board in the final minutes when Joseph Foster found a gap in the Argo secondary and caught a 68-
