Probation

Newport Beach millionaire Don Haidl, the former assistant sheriff who helped authorities take down former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona last year, will avoid jail time but will have to do a “heavy dose” of community service along with paying a fine for lying on his 2002 taxes, a federal judge said Monday. Federal Judge Andrew J. Guilford delayed Haidl’s sentencing after telling the U.S. attorney’s office that he wasn’t satisfied with Haidl just paying a fine and getting probation.

A court hearing for an alcohol-related probation violation for former Oakland A’s all-star pitcher and “Real Housewives of Orange County” star Matt Keough was rescheduled Friday for Jan. 14. “He’s committed to getting treatment,” said Joseph McGinley, one of Keough’s attorneys. Keough’s wife, former Playboy Playmate Jeana Keough, sat in the back row of the courtroom talking with an attorney before the hearing was rescheduled. She declined to comment to reporters.

A Newport Beach attorney who was recently suspended from the state bar after being convicted as a sex offender has 30 days to notify his clients, other attorneys and pay back any money he hasn’t earned, according to state bar documents. Paul Etan Fisher, 50, was convicted of lewd acts upon a 15-year-old girl in October and sentenced to a year in jail and five years of formal probation. More than two months later, on Dec. 27, the State Bar of California suspended Fisher from practicing law. The felony conviction was just the latest on a growing pile of misconduct by Fisher, according to documents made available by the state bar. The bar put Fisher on probation in 2007 after it concluded he was filing court motions without merit and entering into improper business agreements with his clients.

An attorney for former All-Star Oakland A’s pitcher and reality television spouse Matt Keough said Friday the star is committed to getting treatment for problems with alcohol after an Orange County judge sentenced him to 180 days in jail for alcohol-related probation violations Friday. “He’s getting well, and we’re getting him the help that he needs,” attorney Joseph McGinley said Friday. “And Matt is committed to getting well.” Keough, who frequently appears on the cable television reality series “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” was arrested at a Newport Beach hotel bar in December for violating the terms of his probation for a 2005 conviction for driving under the influence.

A Perris man who stomped on a pelican trying to nab his fish at Newport Pier was sentenced to community service and probation, prosecutors said Wednesday. Daniel Richard Moreno, 20, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor animal cruelty Tuesday at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail but was given the option of serving his time with Caltrans. Moreno was given credit for time served after his arrest for the incident in March. He has 12 days left to serve and can either do it behind bars or with Caltrans, which could require him picking up trash on the side of the freeway in an orange vest, officials said.

Former Oakland A’s pitcher and “Real Housewives of Orange County” star Matt Keough was arrested at a Newport Beach hotel bar earlier this week for violating the terms of his probation for a 2005 conviction for driving under the influence, police said Thursday. Newport Beach police officers found Keough, 52, drinking at the Fashion Island Marriott hotel Tuesday evening after concerned hotel staff called authorities, Newport Beach police Lt. Evan Sailor said. “The hotel didn’t know who he was, but they were concerned about him,” Sailor said.

Marisa O'Neil Letters from supporters of a Corona del Mar woman, decrying her conviction on felony charges that she molested a teenage girl, didn't convince a judge to let her out of jail Friday while she awaits sentencing. An attorney for Victoria Hawlish submitted to the court volumes of letters in support of the mother of two, who was scheduled to be sentenced Friday on three felony counts of attempted lewd acts on a minor. But the letters, including a lengthy note from Hawlish's husband, gave the impression that the family's ties to the community were loosening and that the family's ability to move had increased, Orange County Superior Court Judge Carla M. Singer said.

Sue Doyle NEWPORT BEACH -- Dennis Rodman pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of drunk driving in exchange for a sentence of three years of informal probation and a three-month alcohol treatment program. The flamboyant basketball star, who did not appear in court, also pleaded guilty to driving without a valid driver's license. As a part of his sentence, Rodman, 39, must pay $2,000 in fees and observe a 90-day restriction on his driver's license, allowing him only to drive to and from work and the treatment program.

A Corona del Mar man will have to serve 90 days in jail if he violates probation in the next five years after assaulting a woman in his home, prosecutors said. Corey Katir, 48, pleaded no contest Tuesday to felony false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery after he was arrested for sexually assaulting a woman half his age when she went to his house to respond to a Craigslist ad he had for a room to rent. Katir was sentenced to five years’ formal probation and 90 days in jail.