Garden Grove

Recently released sex offender Cary Jay Smith is the move again, with Santa Ana police announcing Wednesday he had left that city.    Smith had been staying at a mental health facility in Santa Ana since Tuesday evening, but police said Wednesday afternoon he had left and found a new place to stay. His latest whereabouts were not immediately...

Garden Grove police said recently released sex offender Cary Jay Smith left that city Tuesday after being met with protests by residents, adding that local authorities “are continuing to monitor him” and will notify the public if he returns. Smith has bounced around the Southland for the past week after being met with repeated protests by residents during brief stays…

Sex offender in Gargen grove has now moved, fear in the community arises. Vikki Vargas reports. July 21, 2020

Cary Jay Smith, the convicted sex offender recently released from a state psychiatric hospital, checked into a motel in Garden Grove Monday after earlier being reported in north San Diego County. The Garden Grove Police Department was notified that Smith checked into the motel and have set up a surveillance detail to monitor him, the department said Monday evening. The…

Felony charges were filed Tuesday against an 18-year-old Garden Grove man who claimed he was part of the Black Lives Matter movement after allegedly attempting to steal a police squad car. Quincy Lunford is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on felony charges of resisting arrest and attempted vehicle theft, along with misdemeanor counts of resisting a peace officer and trespassing…

A man was arrested on suspicion of burglary for allegedly breaking into an apartment unit in Garden Grove Sunday morning that was in close proximity to his own home. Officers dispatched at 1:16 a.m. to the 12200 block of Chapman Avenue, in response to a report of a residential burglary in progress, reported they were told that someone had broke…

Fr. Christopher Smith says the message of Easter takes on special meaning during the pandemic. Christine Kim reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. Friday, April 10, 2020. 

A Garden Grove-based hand sanitizer manufacturer has about two weeks of alcohol left to make the product because of heavy demand caused by the coronavirus outbreak, its CEO said Thursday. “No supplier in the U.S. even has 50 gallons of alcohol” to make hand sanitzer, said Rakesh Tammabattula, CEO of QYK Brands, owner of the Dr. J’s and Glow...

Police opened fire after a confrontation with a man involved in a stolen car crash early Wednesday in Garden Grove The crash was reported at about 1:30 a.m. near the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Trask Avenue. One of the people in the crash began fighting with a responding officer, police said. An officer opened fire, killing the man, police…

Shots were fired after a man struggled with an officer who was responding to a crash in Garden Grove. Darsha Philips reports for Today in LA on Wednesday Feb. 26, 2020.

A couple who reportedly were fighting fell through a third-story window of a Garden Grove home, killing the woman and critically injuring the man, authorities said Tuesday. Police were called at 9:21 p.m. Monday to a home in the 10800 block of Lotus Drive, Garden Grove police Lt. Rich Burillo said. The initial call was about a man and woman…

A 77-year-old woman was killed and a 79-year-old man suffered multiple broken bones when they were struck by a van on a Garden Grove sidewalk, police said Thursday. The pair were struck just after 5 p.m. Wednesday at Westminster Avenue west of Brookhurst Street, Garden Grove police Lt. Carl Whitney said. The 45-year-old man behind the wheel of the van…

A 29-year-old Garden Grove man was found not guilty Thursday by reason of insanity for the fatal stabbing of his stepbrother. Orange County Superior Court Judge John Conley determined that Andres Adolfo Serrat committed second-degree murder in the Aug. 3, 2015, stabbing of 20-year-old Donte Barcalo, but he found the defendant was insane at the time due to multiple diagnoses…

Garden Grove police Tuesday asked for the public’s help tracking down a couple who went missing in Tijuana. Maria Lopez, 65, and Jesus Guillen, 70, drove a pickup truck down to Tijuana on Friday to collect rent from tenants at properties in Mexico, said Garden Grove Police Department Lt. Carl Whitney. The two were due back on Friday afternoon, but…

A 64-year-old man was sentenced today to 11 years in prison for the drug-related stabbing death of a young man in the mid-1980s in Garden Grove. Jesus Menchaca pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter last month for the Dec. 19, 1985, killing of 20-year-old Scott Raymond Hall. Under the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a murder charge. Menchaca got the maximum sentence…

The girl at the center of an Amber Alert issued Friday was found hours after the alert was issued while her mother was detained, California Highway Patrol said. CHP was searching for 39-year-old Christina Lujan and her daughter, 3-year-old Josephine, across several counties in Southern California after the girl was allegedly taken by her mother. The 3-year-old was last seen…

The child’s grandmother has full custody of the child, and family describe the mother as “unstable.” Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Friday, Dec. 27, 2019.

Marco Hernandez talks about the harrowing moments when he and wife wife decided to escape from a second-floor window because hick smoke blocked their escape through the hallway of a burning Garden Grove apartment.

A union-backed advocacy group filed a lawsuit Monday against Santa Ana and Garden Grove to attempt to stop the proposed sale of a city-owned golf course.