SANTA ANA (CBSLA) — A volunteer at a Garden Grove church has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault, and authorities believe he may have more victims. (credit: Orange County Sheriff’s Department) Terry Lyn Myers, 65, was arrested on March 2 in connection with the sexual assault of a minor in the 1990s, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. He is being held at Orange County Jail on $1 million bail. Investigators say Myers has been a volunteer at multiple churches in Orange County, including at Grace Community Church, formerly known as Nutwood Church, in Garden Grove betwe ..read more

WESTMINSTER (CBSLA) — California Highway Patrol officers were in pursuit of two suspects wanted in connection with a stolen vehicle Thursday. Police perimeter in the Santa Ana area where two pursuit, stolen car suspects fled on foot. (Credit: CBS News) The pursuit began at around 10:50 p.m. in Westminster. The suspects led authorities through Anaheim and Santa Ana via surface streets, and could be seen driving both recklessly and on the wrong side of the road, without headlights and making sharp turns as they attempted to evade authorities. At times they were tracked going speeds over 110 mi ..read more

WESTMINSTER (CBSLA) – A former “Real Housewives of OC” cast member’s son, who was convicted of a shooting in Costa Mesa and last year was declared a fugitive in two drug cases, was back behind bars Tuesday. SANTA ANA, CA – MARCH 06: Josh Waring listens during a hearing in superior court in Santa Ana, CA on Friday, March 6, 2020. Waring, the son of ex-“Real Housewives of Orange County” star Lauri Peterson, pled guilty to charges related to the shooting of a man outside a sober living home in 2016. He was released from jail for time served. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County ..read more

WESTMINSTER (CBSLA) — The public’s help is needed Friday to identify a man who tried to kidnap two women in Westminster. Two women called Westminster police to the area of Hoover Street and Garden Grove Boulevard, near the 22 Freeway, at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sgt. Eddie Esqueda said. One woman reported a man had approached her in his vehicle and got out to chase her on foot, but she was able to get away and the man returned to his vehicle. The second woman told the officers the man approached her a few minutes after the first incident and tried to lure her to his car, Esqueda said. When she ..read more

WESTMINSTER (CBSLA) – A suspect was arrested early Friday morning in Westminster following a dangerous pursuit that resulted in two collisions and officer-involved shooting. No one was seriously hurt. At the scene of a crash in on the 22 Freeway in Garden Grove, Calif., on Oct. 29, 2021, that occurred during a pursuit. (CBSLA) California Highway Patrol reports that the incident at 12:38 a.m., when Seal Beach police located a car that had been wanted in a previous incident of an assault on an officer. Seal Beach police tried to pull over the car, it took off and a chase ensued. About six minu ..read more

WESTMINSTER (CBSLA) – A short vehicle pursuit involving a motorcyclist in Westminster resulted in the arrest of a suspect with “numerous felony warrants for his arrest,” authorities said Saturday. Officers tried to pull over the biker at about 9 p.m. Friday in the area of Westminster Boulevard and Edwards Street, the Westminster Police Department reported. Following the short pursuit, which led to the motorcyclist’s arrest, the suspect was “identified to be a known criminal with numerous felony warrants for his arrest,’ police said. Authorities did not release the suspect’s name. Last night ..read more

WESTMINSTER (CBSLA) –A woman in her mid-50s was shot dead and two other people, a man and a woman in their 60s, were wounded during a drive-by shooting in South Los Angeles, authorities said Saturday. It happened around 2:30 a.m. Saturday at Newhope Street and McFadden Avenue in Westminster. Authorities said the driver of a silver sedan died after he was driving at a high rate of speed, possibly hitting 100 miles an hour, before slamming into a parked car. The impact was so great it caused a chain reaction crash. “It was a super big noise me and my wife were sleeping and thought it was a hit a ..read more

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A Lynwood man was found guilty Wednesday of organizing and leading more than a dozen armed robberies of small pharmacies across Southern California for prescription painkillers like oxycodone. After a two-day bench trial in April, U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstandt issued his ruling Wednesday, finding 26-year-old Tyrome “Boobie” Lewis of eight felony charges, including conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, interference with commerce by robbery, possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and knowingly using and brandi ..read more

WESTMINSTER (CBSLA) — Two Southern California residents, unknown to each other until a scary event, are alive but shaken up after shots were fired at their vehicles while they were driving on the freeway. Manuel Padilla heard three shots shatter the rear and back windows of his SUV while he was on his way home from work. The incident happened around 4:15 p.m. southbound on the 405 Freeway near Westminster. “Scared me to death. That’s when I knew somebody was shooting at me,” Padilla said. He was frightened, and so he called 911 and pulled into a gas station where he surprisingly realized someo ..read more

WESTMINSTER (CBSLA) — A 61-year-old Westminster man was arrested at his home Friday in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Kevin Galetto was arrested just after 6 a.m. while federal agents executed a search warrant at his home, according to FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jason Dalton. Officer body cams captured images of a man later identified by Customs and Border Protection as Galetto on the day of the Jan. 6 attack on the capitol. Federal prosecutors say Galetto was one of the first Trump supporters to enter the Lower West Terrace tunnel entrance to the capitol build ..read more