![]() Scott was part of the OC Register’s investigative team that in 2017 produced the year-long, award winning Rehab Riviera series, examining problems in Southern California’s drug rehabilitation industry. He has also accompanied police on undercover drug buys and also provided an award winning, eyewitness account of the execution of a North Carolina death row inmate. Scott has also worked at newspapers in Utah, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia covering everything from methamphetamine trafficking cops to hurricanes. A native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he was previously a breaking news and multimedia reporter for the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner. Scott Schwebke is an investigative reporter for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. “Using predictive policing and crime-analysis methods, investigators were able to identify a suspect,” the Sheriff’s Department says in a statement.ĭuring a search of Rendon’s vehicle, Blashaw said, investigators recovered a handgun, an American-flag bandana and a thick, flannel shirt – leading them to believe he was on his way to carry out another armed robbery. He allegedly kept to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday robbery schedule and preferred businesses in strip malls along main thoroughfares. Investigators and crime analysts had picked up on patterns in the suspect’s behavior. He is accused of wearing an American-flag bandanna tied around his face and a heavy, flannel shirt and brandishing a firearm and demanding cash from various businesses – including an ice cream shop, a game store and a gas station – in such cities as Aliso Viejo, Chino, Irvine, Mission Viejo, Laguna Hills and Laguna Niguel. ![]() The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has arrested a man in connection with nine armed robberies (Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff’s Department) Matthew Scott Rendon was arrested Tuesday for the string of armed robberies that resulted in a total loss of about $3,500, Jaimee Blashaw, a sheriff’s spokeswoman, said. Orange County sheriff’s investigators have arrested a 36-year-old Mission Viejo suspected of nine armed robberies during a nearly five-week span in Orange and San Bernardino counties, authorities said on Thursday. ![]()
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