SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Former NFL quarterback Josh Booty was arrested in California on a suspicion of drunken driving charge, a report said Thursday.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old boy was arrested in Newport Beach, Calif., on suspicion of pointing a laser at a commercial jet and a police helicopter.

MIDWAY CITY, Calif., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A massive search in Midway City, Calif., for a man who attempted to kidnap a 4-year-old girl was all based on a fabricated story, local police said.

SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A Southern California sheriff's deputy has been charged with forcing prostitutes into his patrol car, fondling them and taking provocative pictures of them.

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A California sheriff's spokesman excused himself from a news briefing to jot down a license plate number after he spotted a person of interest in a rape case.

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- An elderly woman with diabetes was found unconscious after being locked for six hours in a California bank after the employees closed up and went home.

SANTA ANA, Calif., July 13 (UPI) -- Authorities in California uprooted 6,000 marijuana plants, with an estimated value of $600,000, in an Orange County wilderness park.

RIVERSIDE, Calif., July 6 (UPI) -- Investigators in Southern California say a missing college student was last seen leaving for a party last month at the house of a registered sex offender. Donna Haghighat Jou, 19, of Rancho Santa Margarita disappeared on June 23.

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., July 5 (UPI) -- Albert Gore III has been released from Orange County (Calif.) Jail on $20,000 bail on marijuana possession charges.