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 ...