Crimes and misdemeanors
"This is the scariest of all rapes. It's the boogeyman lurking in the
shadows, dragging them into the bushes and raping them."
-- Ron Smith, of the Costa Mesa Police Department, describing the methods
of suspected rapist Calvin William Cunningham III, who police said later
committed suicide in jail.
"It's not the first time, and I don't think it's going to be the last,
unfortunately."
-- Martha Fluor, school board member, on the disappearance of PTA and
booster club money that had come to light recently.
"I'm stunned ... there are no words to describe this."
-- Lillian Kazarian, mother of Deputy Dist. Atty. Bryan Kazarian, after
he was charged with providing inside information to a friend.
"I heard this scuffling, and I could just picture [the officer] like
this. The cop is pleading with him ... and [the suspected robber] says,
'So what are you going to do to me?"'
-- Nicole Williams, a witness to a bank robbery, describing what she
heard when she woke up.
Hearts of gold
"This is a very remarkable situation. For someone to give this much money
for an altruistic reason says a lot about that person."
-- Ron Smith, of the Costa Mesa Police Department, on an anonymous
$25,000 reward that was offered in the hunt for a person who raped a
woman in Fairview Park.
"The greatest reward in the world is to watch these people, who were on a
path to become the dregs of society, rise up and become valuable
citizens."
-- Thom Thomas, on a program for residents of a drug and alcohol
treatment facility in Newport Beach that allows them to take classes at
Saddleback College in Mission Viejo.
"We have been turning away chronic care patients for many months now. We
would love to expand our clinics to Saturdays so we can serve more
people, but unfortunately the more people we serve the more resources we
need."
-- Jean Forbath, founder of Share Our Selves, on the difficulties the
group has helping people on a limited budget.
"It feels good to help other people. It's just something we like to do."
-- Chelsea Svir, a fifth-grader at Victoria Elementary School, who is one
of three young candy stripers at the Beverly Manor Convalescent Hospital.
"If the police officer had not come, we absolutely wouldn't have gone. It
is pure luck she came out and helped us."
-- Daryle Palmer, principal of Kaiser Elementary School, after Costa Mesa
Officer Kris Cover got Knott's Berry Farm to issue new tickets for a
field trip after the school's were stolen.
"Show me the size of your heart."
