Arraignment

The arraignment of Newport-Mesa Unified School District Supt. Jeffrey Hubbard has been postponed until Dec. 27, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Hubbard was set to be arraigned Tuesday on a pair of felony charges of misappropriating public funds while he worked as superintendent of Beverly Hills Unified School District, which was his previous job. This is the second time that his arraignment has been changed. Initially, the arraignment in Department 6 of the Beverly Hills Superior Court was set for Monday morning, but then the date was changed to Tuesday because of a scheduling conflict with attorneys.

Two men accused of trying to stab a man to death a man while robbing him of $50 in May had their arraignment rescheduled for Aug. 16, court records show. Maximiliano Bahena Jr., 20, of Orange, and Frank Rocha, 19, of Garden Grove, are charged with attempted murder and robbery for the May 27 attack on a man as he left the bars on the Balboa Peninsula. The two men jumped the man as he walked home, kicking and punching him to the ground and stabbing him six times as they stole his wallet, police said.

A Costa Mesa man accused of stealing more than $280,000 from a blind and deaf woman who was suffering from dementia is to be arraigned Thursday morning at the Santa Ana Central Jail, according to court documents. John Thomas Windsor is accused of stealing from a 98-year-old Newport Beach widow and using the money to buy a sex swing, a Tiffany & Co. engagement ring for his girlfriend and a classic record collection, according to a news release from the Orange County district attorney's office.

An Irvine woman charged with running a red light and killing an elderly woman in a January car crash in Irvine will be arraigned in late October, according to court records. Laurie Ane Keen, 43, was charged last month and was scheduled to be arraigned Friday but had it delayed until Oct. 28. Keen was released from custody Friday on her own recognizance under the condition she does not commit any vehicle code infractions and drives with a valid license and insurance, said Deputy District Attorney Nancy Hayashida.

A man accused of fatally squeezing an 18-month-old baby girl is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Santa Ana. Juan Carlos Aguilar, 25, of Santa Ana is accused of squeezing Megan Rodriguez to death on the morning of July 9 after he was left at home alone to care for her, the Orange County district attorney's office said in a news release. Megan's mother, the sister of Aguilar's girlfriend, had gone to work at a hotel in Newport Beach, and his girlfriend had gone to the market.

SANTA ANA — An allegedly intoxicated driver who hit and seriously injured a Newport Harbor High School student was charged Thursday with felony driving under the influence with an enhancement for causing brain injury and paralysis. Marnie J. Lippincott, 38, of Costa Mesa was also charged with a misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended license. Her arraignment in Orange County Superior Court was delayed Thursday until later this month. Prosecutors said Lippincott was under the influence of drugs and alcohol Tuesday afternoon when her black Chevy Tahoe hit Crystal Morales, 17, as she crossed Margaret Drive in a crosswalk near of the school, which had just let out for the day. Morales suffered serious internal and head injuries.

The arraignment for a Newport Beach painter charged with conning a man out of more than $40,000 by using a Picasso sketch as collateral has been pushed back to Wednesday, prosecutors said. Local artist Michael Schofield, 60, is charged with two felony counts of grand theft and one felony count of passing a check with insufficient funds. Police began investigating Schofield in mid-January after a local real estate broker told police Schofield had not paid him back a $40,000 loan plus interest due months earlier, authorities said.

The arraignment for a 31-year-old man suspected of murdering his live-in fiancee in Newport Beach was continued from Monday to May 28, officials said. William Foster Armendizo is accused of killing Jessica Heather Martin, 29. Newport Beach police said Armendizo called 911 at 9:22 a.m. May 13, saying Smith was not breathing. The Orange County coroner, after a preliminary autopsy, said the cause of death was "mechanical smothering and blunt-force trauma."

The trial of a Costa Mesa man accused in a double murder case has been fast-tracked, prosecutors said Thursday. Daniel Patrick Wozniak, 28, is scheduled to be arraigned in a Santa Ana courtroom Friday on charges that he killed his neighbor, Samuel Herr, and Juri "Julie" Kibuishi, both Orange Coast College students, in May 2010, according to the Orange County district attorney's office. Prosecutors allege Wozniak killed Herr, who lived in his apartment building in Costa Mesa, in order to steal money from his bank account.

SANTA ANA — An allegedly intoxicated driver who hit and seriously injured a Newport Harbor High School student was charged Thursday with felony driving under the influence with an enhancement for causing brain injury and paralysis. Marnie J. Lippincott, 38, of Costa Mesa was also charged with a misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended license. Her arraignment in Orange County Superior Court was delayed Thursday until later this month. Prosecutors said Lippincott was under the influence of drugs and alcohol Tuesday afternoon when her black Chevy Tahoe hit Crystal Morales, 17, as she crossed Margaret Drive in a crosswalk near of the school, which had just let out for the day. Morales suffered serious internal and head injuries.

LOS ANGELES — Newport-Mesa Unified Supt. Jeffrey Hubbard pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court to an additional felony charge of misappropriation of public funds. Hubbard, 54, is now facing three felony counts related to his last job as schools chief in Beverly Hills. Following his arraignment on the charge brought by the grand jury, Judge Patricia Schnegg released Hubbard on his own recognizance. The new charge stems from prosecutors' allegations that Hubbard gave a pay raise — without the school board's required approval — to another administrator, Nora Roque, while the two worked together in the Beverly Hills Unified School District in May of 2005, according to a copy of the indictment.

An Irvine woman charged with running a red light and killing an elderly woman in a January car crash in Irvine will be arraigned in late October, according to court records. Laurie Ane Keen, 43, was charged last month and was scheduled to be arraigned Friday but had it delayed until Oct. 28. Keen was released from custody Friday on her own recognizance under the condition she does not commit any vehicle code infractions and drives with a valid license and insurance, said Deputy District Attorney Nancy Hayashida.

A man accused of fatally squeezing an 18-month-old baby girl is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Santa Ana. Juan Carlos Aguilar, 25, of Santa Ana is accused of squeezing Megan Rodriguez to death on the morning of July 9 after he was left at home alone to care for her, the Orange County district attorney's office said in a news release. Megan's mother, the sister of Aguilar's girlfriend, had gone to work at a hotel in Newport Beach, and his girlfriend had gone to the market.

A man charged with fatally shooting his estranged wife in Irvine is to be arraigned Monday, the Orange County district attorney's office said in a news release. John Rand Agosta, 35 of Anaheim, is accused of waiting for his estranged wife, Alejandra Hernandez, 28, near a Turtle Rock daycare where she worked, before shooting her in the chest nine times Thursday, the release said. Prosecutors believe that Agosta followed Hernandez when she left for her lunch break. About a half a mile from the daycare, she got out of her car in a cul-de-sac, where Agosta allegedly shot her about 2 p.m. Authorities believe that Agosta tried to flee in his car, but could not start the Ford Mustang.

A Newport Beach man and his lawyer were arraigned Tuesday for allegedly trying to break into his foreclosed home, the Orange County district attorney's office said in a news release. Rene Hector Zapeda, 72, the former homeowner, retained Michael Theodore Pines, 59, of San Diego, as his attorney after losing the Newport Coast house to foreclosure in July 2009. Prosecutors allege that Pines advised Zapeda that the foreclosure was illegal. He and his client went to the home at 19 Coral Cay with a locksmith Oct. 13, 2010, after informing the media, Newport Beach police and the real estate agent entrusted with the home that they were going there to repossess it, the D.A.'s office alleges.

Editor's note: This corrects the streeet where the SWAT team members walked in the photo caption. A Corona del Mar man accused of barricading himself inside his home Monday morning for several hours after meeting a woman the night before faces a slew of felony charges and could face decades behind bars. David Charles Wilson, 48, was charged with three counts of rape and sexual penetration with a foreign object, felony aggravated assault, criminal threats, forced oral copulation, false imprisonment by violence, and one misdemeanor count of resisting or obstructing police, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A former Ladera Ranch man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he raped two women and sexually assaulted a third. Ali Achekzai, 33, who was on Orange County's 10 Most Wanted List until his extradition to the United States from Austria last summer, was arraigned at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana. Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig E. Robison set Achekzai's pre-trial for July 1 and his jury trial for Oct. 10. Achekzai is...

A Costa Mesa man accused of stealing more than $280,000 from a blind and deaf woman who was suffering from dementia is to be arraigned Thursday morning at the Santa Ana Central Jail, according to court documents. John Thomas Windsor is accused of stealing from a 98-year-old Newport Beach widow and using the money to buy a sex swing, a Tiffany & Co. engagement ring for his girlfriend and a classic record collection, according to a news release from the Orange County district attorney's office.