Arrests Orange County

Armed with arrest warrants, more than 85 Anaheim police officers and others swept through six cities Thursday morning to crack down on members of two Anaheim gangs. The early morning raid resulted in 22 arrests, most for probation and parole violations, old arrest warrants and possession of firearms, said Anaheim Police Lt. Marc Hedgpeth. Police also seized three handguns, other weapons and gang paraphernalia, including clothing.

Federal authorities arrested eight members of the Orange County-based Hessians motorcycle club on drug and weapons charges in a pre-dawn raid Friday that spanned five cities in three counties. Agents said they targeted the group for investigation about a year ago and hope the arrests send a signal to motorcycle gangs across the country. "We can't ignore them," said Agent Chris Sadowski of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

A Garden Grove man who may have robbed other Orange County banks was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly robbed a bank at gunpoint and ran into Westminster Mall, police said. Hai Van Lo, 27, was arrested on suspicion of robbery after police officers found him hiding in bushes near the San Diego Freeway on the north side of the mall, police said. Police and FBI agents were trying to determine whether Lo was responsible for about six bank robberies in Huntington Beach.

Mayor Patricia Bates called for a change Thursday in a law that bans skateboarding in the street and criticized as "unwarranted" the arrests of two skateboarding teen-agers who were handcuffed and photographed by sheriff's deputies. "I just feel the action was certainly unwarranted, given the circumstances and age of the children," Bates said, referring to the two 15-year-olds who were arrested last week as they skateboarded along busy Niguel Road.

An Orange man was held Friday in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old woman who was found lying on a street in Stanton, the Sheriff's Department said. Robert William Fordham, 28, was arrested in Garden Grove late Thursday night, shortly after the victim, Kimberly Michele Mims, was discovered. She had been stabbed at least twice in the upper torso, said Lt. Dan Martini.

A La Quinta High School student was arrested Thursday in connection with the shooting of a 13-year-old girl Wednesday at the crowded Westminster Mall. Phong Thanh Dang, 18, was arrested without incident when he returned to his home in Santa Ana at 2:15 a.m. Officers had been waiting there for several hours, said Westminster Police Sgt. Bill Lewis. "The victim and the suspect were acquaintances, but they did not have any kind of involved relationship," Lewis said.

Police swept through the troubled Jeffrey-Lynne neighborhood at dawn Friday, arresting nine suspected gang members in connection with three slayings and other attacks in the last two years. About 90 police officers from Anaheim, Fullerton, Placentia and Orange, along with investigators from the Orange County district attorney's office and the county probation departments, spread through the neighborhood and elsewhere beginning at 7 a.m.

A La Quinta High School student was arrested early Thursday in connection with the shooting of a 13-year-old girl that occurred in front of terrified shoppers in the crowded Westminster Mall on Wednesday afternoon. Phong Thanh Dang, 18, was arrested without incident when he returned to his home in the 100 block of South Cooper Street in Santa Ana at 2:15 a.m. Officers had been staking out the home for several hours, said Westminster Police Sgt. Bill Lewis.

Three people were arrested Sunday in connection with the weekend shooting death of a Colorado man who was hit in the cross-fire of a gang-related attack that left two others wounded at a crowded Little Saigon coffeehouse, police said. The suspects in the Saturday afternoon shooting were identified as Dung Le, 22, of Anaheim, Hoang Le, 19, of Garden Grove, who is not related to Dung Le, and a 17-year-old who is believed to have been the shooter, police said. Sgt.

Police swept through the "Big Stanton" neighborhood at dawn Monday, searching homes of several suspected gang members and arresting a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of murdering Rosendo Ibarra, a 17-year-old who was shot in the head in April while talking to his girlfriend at a pay phone.