Court records raise questions about how vigorously Santa Ana police and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office pursued murder cases.
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Latest Police Shooting Draws Protesters to Santa Ana Council Meeting
About 20 protesters showed up Tuesday night to express their grief and anger of the shooting death of 28-year-old Ernesto Javier Canepo Diaz.
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Battered Lives: Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Abuse Hard for Immigrant Families
Culture, traditions, legal status and social isolation can make domestic violence in immigrant families harder to prevent, and respond to. Second in a three-part series.
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Battered Lives: Santa Ana’s Ongoing Struggle With Domestic Violence
Santa Ana has the highest rate of domestic violence calls among all large cities in California. Experts say crowded living conditions and entrenched cultural mores make the problem difficult to combat. First in a three-part series.
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Should the Santa Ana Officers Who Beat Edgar Arzate Still Be On Patrol?
Questions are being raised about the department’s decision to allow officers who are under federal investigation for their actions during Arzate’s June arrest to stay on patrol rather than be reassigned.
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FBI: Policía de Santa Ana cometió crimen contra Edgar Vargas
Agentes de la policía de Santa Ana cometieron un delito cuando golpearon el residente indocumentado durante su arresto en junio, de acuerdo con un documento del FBI.
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FBI: Santa Ana Police Committed Crime Against Edgar Vargas
An FBI certification states that police committed a crime related to felony assault when they beat the undocumented resident during an arrest in June.
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Feds Investigating Santa Ana Police Beating
A federal civil rights investigation has been launched into the case of Santa Ana resident Edgar Vargas, whose beating by local police this summer was caught on video.
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ICE Officials: Vargas Arrest Example of New Tactics
Feds say the arrest last week of Edgar Vargas on his way to court, where he was planning to allege police brutality, is a response to the newly implemented Trust Act. Immigrant advocates say ICE’s actions contradict the act’s intent.
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Sheriff’s Department Acknowledges Trust Act Violation
The department broke the state’s new law when it handed a Santa Ana resident over to immigration authorities based on an erroneous conviction on the man’s record.
