Fullerton

Hetty Chang reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, 2020.

A 32-year-old West Covina man without a license to fly was arrested after he stole and single-engine plane at Chino Airport Wednesday afternoon and then crashed into a fence when he landed at Fullerton Airport. Christian Estoque was arrested on suspicion of grand theft and the theft of an aircraft. Only minor damage occurred when the Cessna 172S overshot the…

Fullerton police officers trying to break up a fight inside a car between two men shot one of the men to death when he advanced at them with a knife, authorities said Monday. One officer was en route to an unrelated call at 9:27 p.m. Sunday when he saw two men fighting inside a truck at Lillie and Commonwealth avenues,…

A 23-year-old Fullerton woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to posting Nazi propaganda posters at Newport Harbor High School and Fullerton College and was immediately sentenced to 40 hours of community service. Grace Elisabeth Ziesmer pleaded guilty to one count of vandalism and two counts of posting graffiti, all misdemeanors. She accepted a plea deal from Orange County Superior Court Judge Greg…

Late Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was a regular. He became very familiar with the Hispanic culture through his wife Vanessa, who introduced him to authentic Mexican cuisine.  Employees and customers at El Camino Real, a Mexican restaurant in Fullerton, lamented the sudden death of Bryant, who was killed in a a helicopter crash in Calabasas on Sunday, along with his…

A boys’ junior varsity basketball coach at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton was arrested Friday for allegedly committing lewd acts on a 14-year-old girl. The mother of a student called the school about 11 a.m. Friday to report that her 14-year-old daughter may have had “unwanted inappropriate contact” with Elijah Kim, said Lt. Jon Radus of the Fullerton Police Department. The school...

Mystery surrounds the discovery of a body found Wednesday wrapped in plastic and cardboard inside an abandoned moving truck in Fullerton. The U-Haul truck containing the body was rented and abandoned in Anaheim, so police in that city have taken over the death investigation, Anaheim police Sgt. Shane Carringer said. Abandoned or delinquent trucks are normally taken to the...

The body found was wrapped in cardboard and plastic. Police were calling the death “suspicious,” unable to determine how the victim may have died. Darsha Philips reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020.

A new partnership between Fullerton College’s Drone Lab and Cal State Long Beach’s Shark Lab will map and research sharks and people off the SoCal coast. Vikki Vargas reports Dec. 20, 2019.

A CSUF student was arrested after a loaded, registered revolver was found in a car on campus.

A Fullterton Police Department school resource officer has been charged after photos and videos of a 16-year-old were allegedly found on his phone. Hetty Chang reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.

A 46-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to setting up a phone camera in the bathroom of a Fullerton residence where he rented a room to secretly videotape two young girls.

After a video of a family fight at Disneyland went viral, three adults have been charged for their involvement in the brawl. Kim Tobin reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 23, 2019.

Videos of the brawl circulated social media and showed one man kicking a person in the head outside ‘The Slidebar’. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 16, 2019.

A massive power outage hit the city of Fullerton Monday night, with nearly 14,000 customers affected initially.

Footage released Friday from a body camera worn by a Fullerton police officer who fatally shot a 17-year-old girl shows the teen pointing what police say was a replica handgun at the officer prior to the shooting.

A Fullerton police officer who fatally shot a 17-year-old girl on an Anaheim freeway was wearing a body camera, which captured the shooting, and the footage will be released in the next few days, police said Thursday.

The family of a 17-year-old girl fatally shot by a Fullerton police officer on the 91 Freeway in Anaheim demanded Tuesday that Gov. Gavin Newsom order Attorney General Xavier Becerra to conduct a civil-rights investigation into the shooting.

A 17-year-old girl was fatally shot killed in a shooting involving a Fullerton police officer on the eastbound 91 Freeway in Anaheim, police said Saturday.