ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — Otero County authorities have arrested a Chaparral man on numerous animal cruelty charges. The 156 counts against 44-year-old Felix Moriel stem from an investigation into ...

A central figure in Orange County’s jail informant scandal took his own life recently. Oscar Daniel Moriel, 40, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Huntington Beach the morning ...

Moriel left jail Nov. 9 after posting $200,000 bail through a bond company. Scott Sanders, the assistant public defender who uncovered Moriel’s informant work, wondered why Moriel’s bail wasn ...

Moriel, 37, is an unlikely ally of law enforcement. He's admitted to "hunting" his targets, mostly in Santa Ana. In 2013, he testified under a grant of immunity in another case that's he's killed ...