Detectives with the Santa Ana Police Department are investigating the death of an 11-year-old boy at a Santa Ana hotel Wednesday after the mother placed a 911 call, allegedly stating that she ...

Santa Ana police announced on Thursday the identity of a woman who was arrested for fatally stabbing her 11-year-old son inside a hotel room. Authorities are charging her with murder, child ...

Cielo is accused in connection with the March 29 fatal shooting of 35-year-old Johnny Daniel Mercado, police said. Cielo was arrested last Wednesday and booked into the Santa Ana Jail, police said.

A 48-year-old Irvine woman accused of stabbing her 11-year-old son to death at a Santa Ana hotel Wednesday had been living off and on there with the boy for several weeks, police said. The boy’s ...

Officer Natalie Garcia, a Santa Ana Police Department spokesperson, said a motive is unknown. Garcia said the mother and son had been staying at the hotel off and on for the last couple of weeks.