Garden Grove

Police made 19 arrests at an illegal gambling operation in a Garden Grove neighborhood, authorities said.

Kevin Dinh, a 12-year veteran of the Garden Grove Police Department, has been charged with beating and threatening two homeless people while on duty in separate incidents last year, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Garden Grove police asked for the public's help to locate a critically missing woman on Saturday who suffers from memory loss and possible Alzheimer's disease and also requires oxygen.

Garden Grove police continued their search on Monday to find an 85-year-old man who went missing.

A pickup truck being chased by police crashed into another vehicle and ended up in a residential swimming pool, killing both motorists and a passenger.

A Las Vegas woman was sentenced Friday to 10 to 25 years in prison for killing a nail salon manager with a vehicle while trying to skip out on a $35 manicure.

The Garden Grove Strawberry Festival has been postponed for a second straight year due to COVID-19 concerns, and now is rescheduled for Memorial Day weekend of next year, organizers said.

The Garden Grove Police Department is mourning one of their own after a lieutenant died from complications of COVID-19.

The California Highway Patrol pursued a white van on the 405 Freeway in the Irvine area in Orange County Monday afternoon.

Cary Jay Smith, the convicted sex offender recently released from a state psychiatric hospital, was on the move again after he was last seen in Garden Grove, police said. 

Cities and counties across Southern California are beginning to impose curfews again for Tuesday night in an attempt to curb civil unrest.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange announced Friday that public masses can begin in Orange County starting June 14 in a phased-in approach that will include measures to safeguard public health.

The city of Garden Grove announced Wednesday that it would be reopening all park tennis and handball courts, beginning Friday, under certain social distancing restrictions.

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.

A suspect was killed in an officer-involved shooting Wednesday morning in Garden Grove and the officer was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.

A Garden Grove couple who went missing while visiting Mexico last week has been found dead, according to the Attorney General of Baja California. 

Mexican authorities say they have discovered two more bodies at a house in Tijuana where a Garden Grove couple was found buried, allegedly by their son-in-law.

Garden Grove police are asking for the public's help in tracking down a couple who went missing in Tijuana.