Person Attributes

A 75 year-old Fullerton woman was convicted of felony hit and run causing death by an Orange County, California judge stemming from an incident in August of 2007.   Ana Maria Torres ran over 89 year-old Jessie Pound on August 26, 2007 as she was leaving the parking lot of Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Placentia where she had attended morning mass. Pound, whose DNA was found on a piece of clothing underneath Torres’ car, later died of her injuries. 

Torres claims to not have known she had hit or anyone and even attended a family function later that same day. Torres was also found guilty of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence as well as providing false information to a police officer. When Torres was questioned by the local police about the incident, she lied about which church service she had attended on that day and at one point claimed she had walked to church. Torres is scheduled to be sentenced on October 16^th and could face up to four years in prison. 

Chicago Blackhawks hockey player and 2010 U.S. Olympic team hopeful Patrick Kane and his cousin James Kane were arrested and accused of the theft crimes of robbery and misdemeanor counts of both theft and criminal mischief following a predawn scuffle with a taxi driver in early August. While official details of the incident have not yet been released, Jan Radecki, 62, claims Patrick Kane, 20, and his cousin attacked him when he told them he didn’t have 20 cents change for their fare. Radecki claims the incident left him with a pair of broken glasses and several bruises. Both Patrick Kane and James Kane have pleaded not guilty. 

Kurt Angle was once a main attraction for Olympic wrestling and professional wrestling, drawing crowds in the tens of thousands to see him grapple with some of the top athletes in the world.  These days however, his ex-girlfriend is doing her best to avoid Mr. Angle and his harassing, stalking ways.

Angle has been charged with drug possession and violating an order of protection in Pennsylvania.  His former girlfriend called the police, claiming that Angle was circling the coffee shop she was in with his car.  When police pulled him over, they found HGH, an illegal steroid, in his car. Angle, 40, was charged with violating the order of protection, harassment, possession of drugs and paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license.  Angle is a two-time NCAA Division 1 wrestling champion, an Olympic gold medalist in wrestling and a successful, popular professional wrestler.

When the president speaks, we listen…and so when President Grant once commented on the evidence in a pending criminal case, the newspapers quickly covered the story. And given Grant’s predilection for liquor, Obama’s recent meeting at the White House hardly turns the Rose Garden into a beer garden.

NFL stand-out Donte Stallworth pleaded guilty last Tuesday to DUI/Manslaughter charges in a Florida Court stemming from a horrific March incident that left a pedestrian dead. Stallworth was reportedly driving in Miami in the early morning hours when his vehicle struck Mario Reyes, a construction worker on his way home from a late night shift. Paramedics rushed Reyes to the nearest hospital where he died. Miami police administered field sobriety tests and later took a blood sample from Stallworth, which is customary in situations were driving under the influence is suspected.