Happy Halloween

I wanted to a take minute and tell everyone

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I hope as you are out enjoying your Halloween night you can avoid the ghost, goblins and monsters in your neighborhood.

As you take your children out to trick and treat remember some of these safety tips…

Stay in well lit areas.

Keep a flash light with you

Keep your children off the streets as much as possible and make sure they obey traffic signals and laws.

Consider reflective material on your child’s costume and parents can consider using a reflective vest to warn traffic if necessary.

Don’t go to neighborhoods you don’t know.

Keep up with your children and don’t let them run away from you or your group. Do not let them trick or treat alone.




Inspect all candy and apples (And other fruits) if any appeared to be tampered with in anyway, do not eat and consider calling the police






Make sure your children are aware of the potential dangers of strangers and they cannot at any time accept a ride from any strangers. If they are approached by a stranger, have your child scream for help and run.

Avoid costumes that can obstruct the child vision or ability to walk or run if needed.

Check the costumes and make sure they are made of flame resistant materials and of course keep children away from candlelit jack-o-lanterns.

Of course remember your church or other organized Halloween festivities are usually the safest place for your children during Halloween.

Even though there are safety regulations in place and well advertised every year, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians the most common Halloween injuries include eye injuries from sharp objects, burns from flammable costumes and children hit by cars as they walk and run around your busy neighborhood.

Stay safe and crime free and if not your case might be reviewed here on

True Crime Cases by The Jakester.

Happy Halloween Everyone....And watch out for the Ghost in your area....

Merry Christmas

We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas

Enjoy your Holidays

We hope you and your family has the best Christmas ever…

We will be taking a break from posting until after the Holidays

Even though the crimes occurring right now are unbelievable, we want to celebrate the holidays without mention of crime.

I suffered a recent break in at my home and the police are working to bring those responsible to justice. Sadly they elected to steal a weapon. Funny thing is they took the weapon that was the least expensive and left my more costly weapons. As crimes happen, I learn I know less and less about criminals. The selection of weapons they had to choose from were my very first revolvers I used when I started in Law Enforcement.

So the sentimental value of the weapons could never be replaced. The weapon was a 38 cal. Stub nose revolver I carried as a back up weapon. My Smith and Wesson Stainless Steel Revolver, they never touched.

They also stole some cash and the funny thing about the cash they stole, was they did not even take all the money I had there. They only took part of the Christmas cash I had been saving. Criminals just make no sense to me.

It’s a funny feeling to know a stranger has been in my home and stole from me, it’s almost like I feel like everything in my house is dirty now. After the robbery I washed everything I could from bed linens to dishes to the curtains in my room. My personal life has been violated and I have never experienced anything like this until now. I now have a better understanding of how victims of crimes feel.

Working as a cop, sometimes I think I took a bad approach with some people and now after I was robbed, I feel like I need to apologize to them. Not that I done anything wrong with the investigation of the crime, I just had no compassion for the victims. I felt like they were over reacting to a minor crime. Well now I understand completely how they felt when I was dealing with them as a police officer.

With that said, I will move on to the important purpose of this post


We wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas!!!

I hope you and your loved ones enjoy a crime free holiday.

You know the song, You better watch out….

Well here in Orange County they are giving a new meaning to one of the favorite Christmas carols.

Santa’s Helpers are out and about and the are trying to spread the word, you better watch out…

Orange County Deputies are dressed as elves and Santa helpers in order to help keep traffic under control to help avoid holiday deaths.

Apparently they are working some pretty busy intersections where some avoidable accidents have occurred in the last few days. The Deputies want to let you know you better watch out.

Be safe and pay attention. As a paramedic it is amazing how many critical/fatal accidents occur that could have been prevented if the drivers would pay attention to driving.

So just keep this in mind as you are driving along and see Santa’s Helpers: If you are in violation of any traffic law, you may get more than you wanted for Christmas this year.

That’s right they are issuing citations and a lot of them. Apparently in a couple hour time period they issued over 60 citations, most of which were for running a red light.

So when you run that red light, don’t be surprised if you get stopped by an elf or another one of Santa’s Helpers.

Apparently they are going to be dressed up and working traffic for the next week and this seems to be a tradition Orange County Sheriff’s Office is starting.

One of the Deputies reported the reason they can do this right now is there has not been that many homicides or overdoses so far this holiday season so it gives the Deputies some time to spread that holiday cheer, Law Enforcement Style.

Happy Thanksgiving

True Crime Cases by The Jakester wants to wish everyone a very Happy and Safe Thanksgiving.

We hope you enjoy your holiday, luckily for me I get to work again and miss spending this time with my loved ones.

It has become customary to for us to celebrate any holiday the following week and this Thanksgiving will be no different, we will celebrate on Sunday. The joys of working in EMS. 

Even though we cannot celebrate with you on Thanksgiving Day we still remain thankful for the many wonders we celebrate every singe day in our life.

There’s so much to be thankful for it’s hard to sum it all up in a brief post for this blog.

As a Kidney transplant patient, I remain thankful every single day of life that I do not have to go to dialysis. I thank God every single day for my second chance at life.

I remain forever thankful and indebted to my brother who donated a kidney to me. It was one of the most awesome gifts I could have ever received. Without his act of kindness, I probably would not be alive today. Even after all the years post transplant, I still remain thankful.

I remain forever thankful for my best friend John. He has been an inspiration to me and I’m thankful we have such an awesome friendship. I’m very thankful he continues to be a part of my life. (Well some days….lol. – just joking John, you know I’m very thankful)

I am very thankful for all the new friends I have met through my blog and all my old friends as well, (Did not want you all to feel left out.)

There is just so much to be thankful for.

I hope everyone has an awesome Thanksgiving and I ask that we pray for those less fortunate than we are and that we thank God for everything we have to be thankful of this Thanksgiving.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

As another season of ghosts and goblins is among us; I wanted to wish everyone a

Happy Halloween

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I would also like to invite you to dinner with me, would you like to join me at

I hear they have some killer food.

I hope everyone has an uneventful and safe night tonight.

Happy Halloween from The Jakester.

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July



I wanted to take a minute and wish everyone a Happy 4th of July.

I hope everyone stays safe and crime free during your festivities.