Oak View shootings probe stalls The...

Oak View shootings probe stalls

The investigation of a double homicide in Oak View in May has

stalled since police learned that their primary suspect has been

hiding out in Mexico.

Juan Jose Meza, 20, has fled to that country and is still wanted

for the crime, Lt. Ron Burgess said.

On June 26, police obtained a no-bail warrant for Meza for the

murders of 18-year-old Oscar Gaytan and 16-year-old Heriberto Tapia

Vasquez. Gaytan and Vazquez lived in Huntington Beach’s Oak View

neighborhood.

Police believe that Meza was the trigger man on May 11, when

Gaytan and Vasquez were gunned down on an Oak View sidewalk, Burgess

said.

The two were shot in the 17400 block of Dairyview Circle. Gaytan

was found dead near there, while Vasquez crawled down the street and

died in front of an apartment complex in the 17400 block of Jacquelyn

Circle.

Police are treating the shooting as a gang-related crime.

Anyone with more information about Meza should call police at

(714) 375-0666.

Traffic snarl caused after accidents

Two accidents at nearby intersections on Beach Boulevard on

Thursday brought traffic to a near standstill for several hours on

the busy thoroughfare.

At 1:35 p.m., the driver of a gold 1989 Honda ran a red light at

Beach and Talbert Avenue, crashing into a silver Toyota van, Lt. Ron

Burgess said.

The accident, coupled with an accident at Beach and Warner Avenue,

caused havoc on the popular north-south thoroughfare.

At 11:32 a.m., the driver of a white Toyota ran off the road,

crashing into a signal box and cutting power at Beach and Warner.

Power to the signal was restored by 3:15 p.m.

Katherine Troung, 19, Santa Ana, was driving the gold Honda,

police said. Tao Thach, a 51-year-old Garden Grove woman, was driving

the silver van.

Thach was transported to Huntington Beach Hospital with minor

injuries, Burgess said. Troung was cited with a red-light violation.

Driver plows into pizza restaurant

A car rammed into a Round Table Pizza restaurant Friday afternoon,

police said.

The accident occurred at 4:30 p.m., police said. The driver

suffered only a cut on the lip.

The restaurant is at 19750 Beach Blvd.