Probation

Former Newport Beach City Attorney David Hunt received probation this week for his recent drunk driving conviction, according to court records. Hunt, 54, of Santa Ana, pleaded guilty Monday to driving under the influence of alcohol, and was sentenced to three years informal probation, restitution, $390 in fines and three months of a first offender alcohol program, according to court records. A second charge against Hunt of driving with a blood alcohol content of .08% or more was dismissed.

A four-hour standoff involving police negotiators and the SWAT team ended peacefully Friday night after a man known to be proficient with weapons barricaded himself inside a Costa Mesa office complex. Police coaxed Rob Kaululaau Tom, 37, of Santa Ana from the building at about 9:40 p.m. "He came out peacefully," Costa Mesa Police Lt. Karl Schuler said. "The hostage negotiators did a great job." Tom had a small black dog in the building with him, police said. One of Tom's co-workers in a mortgage lending business told police he believed Tom had a gun. Orange County probation officers were in the process of searching the building.

A four-hour standoff involving police negotiators and the SWAT team ended peacefully Friday night after a man known to be proficient with weapons barricaded himself inside a Costa Mesa office complex. Police coaxed Rob Kaululaau Tom, 37, of Santa Ana from the building at about 9:40 p.m. "He came out peacefully," Costa Mesa Police Lt. Karl Schuler said. "The hostage negotiators did a great job." Tom had a small black dog in the building with him, police said. One of Tom's co-workers in a mortgage lending business told police he believed Tom had a gun. Orange County probation officers were in the process of searching the building.

Members of the Costa Mesa religious sect the Piecemakers who were convicted in 2005 of operating a restaurant without a permit and resisting inspectors, were sentenced Friday. Two received probation, while the group's founder and leader received 10 days' jail time as well. Marie Kolasinski, 85, was immediately taken into custody. With time served, she will likely be there for six more days, her lawyer, Joseph Donahue, said. Kolasinski, along with co-defendants Doug Follette, 52, and Judy Haeger, 59, received three years' probation as well.

Members of the Costa Mesa religious sect the Piecemakers who were convicted in 2005 of operating a restaurant without a permit and resisting inspectors, were sentenced Friday. Two received probation, while the group's founder and leader received 10 days' jail time as well. Marie Kolasinski, 85, was immediately taken into custody. With time served, she will likely be there for six more days, her lawyer, Joseph Donahue, said. Kolasinski, along with co-defendants Doug Follette, 52, and Judy Haeger, 59, received three years' probation as well.

Former Orange County Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl, who helped bring down Sheriff Mike Carona last year, will be sentenced next week in federal court for filing a false tax return in 2002. Haidl, a Newport Beach resident, pleaded guilty in 2007 to understating a previous tax return and agreed to uncover corruption by Carona and ex-assistant sheriff George Jaramillo. Federal prosecutors are recommending that Haidl be sentenced to two years’ probation and pay a $40,000 fine. His sentencing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Monday in U.S. Central District Court in Santa Ana. The probation department is recommending that Haidl serve 18 months in prison on top of the fine.

The former Harbor Master from the Orange County Sheriff’s Harbor Patrol pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence. Lt. Erin Guidice, 48, was sentenced to three years’ informal probation, fines, fees and ordered to attend a class on alcohol abuse and pay restitution. About 9 p.m. April 14, Guidice was driving an unmarked Orange County Sheriff’s Department vehicle northbound on Jamboree Road in Irvine when she rear-ended another car stopped at a red light.

A man who illegally entered the St. John the Baptist elementary school campus and refused to leave after administrators confronted him has been released, Costa Mesa police said. He was not, as was erroneously reported in another publication, a registered sex offender, police said. Antonio Mondragon, 28, was arrested at the school Feb. 8 when he refused to leave the campus, telling school officials he was “sent from God,” authorities said. Mondragon climbed a fence on the school’s field before classes began, then left, police said.