Aliso Viejo

A pursuit that ended in Aliso Viejo where Anaheim police say they believe the suspect’s vehicle is similar to the truck in a kidnapping attempt last week in Anaheim.

A serial rapist who attacked at least three women by running trails in an Aliso Viejo park has been arrested. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m.

The serial rapist who attacked at least three women by snatching them off running trails in an Aliso Viejo park has been identified and is in custody, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes and District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a Monday press conference. Robert Daniel Yucas, 51-year-old resident of Riverside County, has been arrested and has been charged with three…

Nicole Weiss was engaged to be married, but her fiancé was killed in the suicide attack at the Kabul airport last month.

Nicole Weiss was engaged to be married, but her fiancé was killed in the suicide attack at the Kabul airport last month. Vikki Vargas reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Sept. 10, 2021.

An endangered missing advisory is in effect Thursday morning for a 1-year old boy taken by his biological mother in Aliso Viejo.

DNA testing showed that two kidnapping and assault incidents along the Aliso Creek trail in Aliso Viejo were committed by the same man, investigators said Thursday. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said the man attacked a woman in Woodfield Park on April 2, grabbing her behind and forcing her into the bushes off the trail she was hiking. The woman,…

Hoping to generate public tips, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department on Friday released surveillance video and two sketches of a suspect who grabbed a 30-year-old woman on the Aliso Creek trail in Woodfield Park. The suspect tackled the woman from behind and forced her into some bushes east of the baseball fields about 4:50 p.m. Thursday, according to Carrie...

Stephen William Beal is accused of failing to report a $350,000 windfall from his wife’s death. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020.

The man accused of killing his former girlfriend and business partner with a powerful package bomb at a day spa in Aliso Viejo has been indicted on new, unrelated fraud charges, according to court documents. Stephen William Beal, 61, is accused in a newly unsealed two-count indictment of failing to report a $350,000 windfall from his wife’s death in the…

The suspect is wanted for assaulting and kidnapping a woman in Aliso Viejo before she was able to get away. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020.

Hoping to generate public tips, Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials released a sketch Tuesday of an assailant who attacked a woman in Aliso Viejo. The 22-year-old woman said she was skateboarding about 6 p.m. Monday at Woodfield Park when the man approached her and attempted to talk to her, according to the sheriff’s department. The man then “unexpectedly attacked her,” grabbing...

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A Long Beach man has been charged with causing the package bomb explosion at a day spa in Aliso Viejo that killed the man’s ex-girlfriend and injured two others in 2018, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday.

A Southern California man who was arrested on an explosives charge after a blast killed his former girlfriend last week at her day spa was ordered held without bail at a court appearance Monday.

A decade before his ex-girlfriend was killed in what investigators say was a targeted explosion, Stephen Beal’s wife died in what a coroner deemed a “mysterious case.”

Strangers held hand-in-hand in solidarity of their mourning for a woman killed during an explosion in Aliso Viejo. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 on Friday, May 18, 2018.

New details emerge about Stephen Beal, the man accused of carrying out the explosion at a medical building in Aliso Viejo. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at 5 on Thursday, May 17, 2018.

The man accused of carrying out the deadly explosion in Aliso Viejo is facing multiple charges. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News at 5 on Thursday, May 17, 2018.

The ex linked to the woman killed in the Aliso Viejo explosion appeared in court while the troubling list of items found in his home were revealed. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 on Thursday, May 17, 2018.