See Update No. 2 at the end of this post on the punishment Robert Ligayo faces with a conviction and more details on the case from the district attorney. Update No. 1 o the next page has the defendant, his family and his defense attorney claiming he's innocent.

ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 19, 8:50 A.M.: An Aliso Viejo man licensed since 2001 as an elderly caregiver was arrested for the alleged sexual abuse of a 69 66-year-old, in-home female client for the past six months, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

Robert Ligayo, 62, was being held on $100,000 bail in the Orange County Jail after his arrest by the sheriff's Special Victims Detail.

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The other Orange County shoe has dropped, although this shoe is a former USC baseball player and Newport Beach children's book publisher who is the latest--and last--Orange County contestant eliminated on ABC's The Bachelorette. Yes, a week after giving Costa Mesa's Brandon Andreen the heave-ho, Desiree Hartsock this week sent 28-year-old Zack Kalter packing.

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Here's an important tip to sleuths amateur and professional: If you are looking for a place that might be a brothel, start with the inn in town that has generated 365 police calls in the past year and a half.

Based on a tip from a john, and with a Los Angeles television news crew in town, cops busted up a den of prostitution at the California Lodge Suites Hotel, 2909 S. Bristol St., Santa Ana.

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Unlike this scene, Goliath stripped his carjacking victim to his underwear and planned to let him die in the trunk

At the age of 16, Orange County's Robert John Goliath experienced the glorious benefits of methamphetamine: For the rest of his life, he may received free housing, free food, free medical care, free--albeit less than fashionable, state-issued--clothing, and an entertaining bunch of neighbors.

In the middle of a night in October 2003, a high Goliath committed a crime spree that included robbery, carjacking and kidnapping of a man he stripped, bound, threatened and threw into the trunk of a vehicle for eight hours.

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Corporate giant wins OC injunction

A federal judge in Orange County this month ordered a Little Saigon beauty salon accused of selling poor quality counterfeit Chanel products to cease it trademark infringement actions and pay the beauty industry giant more than $72,000.

That finding by U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney is relatively good news for Sharon Huynh-Nha Vu, owner of Mode Salon Inc. which operates as Spa By Mode at 9876 Bolsa Avenue in Westminster.

New York and Los Angeles lawyers for Chanel originally had sought more than $2 million from Vu in their September 2012 complaint filed in the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana.

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Man, courting rituals sure have changed since I was on the market.

Take David Carlos ... PLEASE!

The 34-year-old Santa Anan is accused of jerking off in front of his girlfriend's Fountain Valley home, where he is also alleged to have slept next to a pool with his junk out and told a passing jogger--running with her 10-year-old niece--that he "liked her body."

The jogger's. Not the niece's. That'd be creepy ...

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Once again, the Board of Supervisors has cut by $50,000 the annual funding request by Orange County Human Relations, the watchdog on regional hate crimes.

But the nonprofit, which won approval for $252,000 in county funding for this fiscal year, would have received another $50,000 less than that if one supervisor had his way.

Supervisor John Moorlach, portraying himself as a fan of the commission, recommended $202,000 so OC Human Relations can "wean" itself off public funding. Wonder if he feels the same way about land developers?

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The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a proposal to allow uniformed civilian sheriff's department employees the power to write citations, make misdemeanor arrests and carry guns, batons and stun guns.

The plan apparently does not specify if there is a "Barney Fife Rule" preventing those guns from being loaded.

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When Aaron Kushner bought the Orange County Register a year ago, he let it be known that OC's paper of record wouldn't be the only media acquisition in his feel-good empire. He's been rumored to want the Los Angeles Times, and will always have a hard-on for his hometown Boston Globe.

But sources tell the Weekly that Kushner has a new market in mind where he wants to start a new, nearly-daily paper in a seemingly surprising place: Long Beach.

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Josue Rivas

Going underground

The Hunt Branch Library in Fullerton seemed more peaceful than ever, with birds chirping and a cool breeze whispering to everyone around that now, more than ever, was the time to lay on the grass and take a nap. A couple sat on a wooden bench while watching their two beautiful dogs run free across the green grass. It was a marked departure from last Wednesday, when the city's police department gave a 48-hour eviction notice to around 60 members of a homeless camp near the train tracks behind the building. Fullerton officials swore that they'd help the homeless find shelter--but, unsurprisingly, those promises haven't been kept.

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