See the update at the end of this post about Baback "Bobby" Azadgilani turning himself in to police and allegations of past harassment.

ORIGINAL POST, MAY 17, 11:56 A.M.: Have you seen this fellow to the right?

Laguna Beach Police suspect him of raping a woman in her home last month.

Officers have tried to arrest Babak "Bobby'' Azadgilani, 26, at his Laguna Niguel home and business, but he appears to be in hiding, according to Capt. Jason Kravetz, the department spokesman.

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A Costa Mesa man who is the nephew of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley faces trial in the Windy City for manslaughter. Richard Vanecko, 38, allegedly punched a Mount Prospect man in the face outside a Chicago bar during the early morning hours of April 25, 2004. The man fell backward, hit his head hard on the pavement and died from brain injuries 11 days later.

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Last week, we reported the conclusion of a bizarre lawsuit filed by one Carla "Kaya" Lewis, the sister of TapouT co-founder Charles "Mask" Lewis, regarding her deceased brother's ashes. Now comes word that Kaya is facing her own lawsuit because of the lawsuit she just won.

According to papers filed in Orange County Superior Court, Kaya hired Irvine-based private investigator firm Luna Quest to work on her behalf for the lawsuit she filed against TapouT over her brother. Luna Quest head Kenneth Luna, Sr. is now claiming breach of contract, fraudulent concealment, and five other charges in alleging that Kaya didn't tell his firm she had earned a large settlement.

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Nancy Reagan escorted by Secret Service Agent Bui before his downfall

A federal judge in Orange County this week punished a Vietnam War refugee--who eventually became an accomplished U.S. Secret Service (USSS) special agent assigned to protect former First Lady Nancy Reagan--for operating a bank-fraud scheme.

U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter sentenced Richard Kyle Bui to one day of incarceration in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons, deemed it already served and ordered the convicted swindler to undergo supervised probation for two years after paying a $100 fine.

Bui, who faced as much as a lenient six months in federal prison given his quick guilty plea, had previously lost his job as a result of his crime.

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A man who allegedly wrapped a 17-year-old Barnes & Noble shopper in a bear hug and began carrying her out the front door of the Aliso Viejo bookstore saying he wanted to marry her was arrested Saturday.

Saif Mohamed Moussa, 29, was later held in lieu of $100,000 bail on kidnapping and child annoyance charges.

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A 29-year-old man suspected of breaking into a Santa Ana church with two others to pilfer a safe containing about $15,000 was taken into custody Friday. Daniel Cortes, who is believed to be the burglar who was wearing a White Sox cap in surveillance video from Forty Martyrs Armenian Church, was arrested after a short car chase, Santa Ana police said.

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57 pounds?

A Little Saigon drug dealer caught selling approximately 57 pounds of cocaine in May 2011 has won a 31-month trip to federal prison.

U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna punished Tung Le this month for participating in a cocaine operation that distributed illegal narcotics throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties.

After his 2012 federal indictment, Le signed a guilty plea before a trial in hopes of a more lenient sentence.

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An ex-doctor and minister who hawked a miracle cancer cure via a program on the Costa Mesa-based Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison because her "brown sludge'' was actually made of suntan lotion and beef flavoring. Besides TBN, Christine Daniel, 58, of Santa Clarita, also sold the phony cure through her "wellness center" with ever-changing names in Mission Hills. In addition to the prison stretch, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Timlin, who remanded Daniel into custody following the four-hour hearing in Los Angeles, ordered her to forfeit nearly $1.2 million. When the then-licensed physician and ordained Pentecostal minister was arrested in LA in October 2009, she'd by then taken $1.1 million from 55 families over three years for her herbal "C-Extract." At least six patients died over a six-month period.

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Mother and son tag-teamers Leticia and Noel Carrasco received life sentences today for robbing and murdering a man in a Buena Park motel room after momma picked the fellow up in a Stanton bar with promises of sex.

Leticia Carrasco, the stunner at right, can apply for parole from prison in 25 years when she is 78. Noel Carrasco, 27, must spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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Da Judge

A Newport Beach jewelry store owner, who withdrew her guilty plea in a family mortgage scam case just before sentencing only to be found guilty in Santa Ana federal court anyway, has learned her fate. U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney sentenced 52-year-old Safieh Fard to 63 months in prison.

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