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He is currently being held at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange in lieu of $1 million bail. He was scheduled to be arraigned at the Stephen K. Tamura Justice Center in Westminster .

The Huntington Beach Police Department began investigating Esparza after receiving an anonymous cyber-tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children program in September 2022.

During the eight-month investigation, HBPD Crimes Against Persons Unit detectives began

GGUSD board

Continued from page 1 dents whose grade point average was the highest in their graduating class, but they were also in the spotlight because of achievement in athletics, the arts, leadership and community service.

One standout student had a 4.86 GPA and is bound for Yale. All 14 are headed to college; 13 to four-year schools and one to a community college.

The GGUSD is a K-12 public school system serving most of Garden Grove as well as parts of Anaheim, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Stanton and Westminster.

The next board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 6.

Motorcyclist killed

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His identity was not released pending notification of his next of kin.

The freeway was partially shut down while officers investigated the scene.

For the record

At the “Three Amigos” event at Azteca Mexican Restaurant covered in The Tribune on April 29, the food was sponsored by Republic Services with the Azteca providing a discount.

communicating with Esparza while posing as an adult female who was babysitting a four-yearold girl. During those communications, Esparza is accused of expressing his desire to perform very specific sexual acts on the child.

On April 7, 2023, Esparza was told that the child was at a Huntington Beach hotel room and he was arrested by undercover detectives when he entered the room.

“After overcoming many investigative hurdles during this multiple-month investigation, Huntington Beach detectives were able to take a sexual predator off the streets,” said Huntington Beach Chief of Police Eric Parra. “

“This case demonstrates our detective bureau’s tenacity, determination, and commitment to never stop working to seek justice for those who have been victimized. We will continue to investigate anyone who harms the most vulnerable in our society.”

Esparza, who is originally from Warren, Ohio, also has connections to Huntington Beach, Long Beach, and Fullerton.

Anyone with information relating to Esparza is asked to call the Huntington Beach Police Department WeTip Hotline at (714) 375-5066.

Anonymous tips can also be made to OC Crime Stoppers by calling (855) TIP-OCCS (1-855847-6227).

JIm Tortolano Editor and Publisher

Marilyn Lewis Tortolano General Manager

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You can never have too many freeways (not!)

Continuing the “what-ifs” of West Orange County area and what “might have been.”

Rail transit: The Orange County Transportation Authority is now constructing – at great expense and some controversy – the OC Streetcar line that will link downtown Santa Ana to Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove along the old Pacific Electric right-ofway.

But it could have been done