Two arrests have been made in connection with the shooting death of a man found in a car in a residential neighborhood near Disneyland over the weekend, authorities announced late Wednesday night.  

The violence unfolded on Dec. 8 in the 200 block of S. Margie Lane in Anaheim, according to a news release from the Anaheim Police Department.  

Officers responded to the area just before 9 p.m. and found 25-year-old Kenneth Swets unresponsive in his vehicle, suffering from several gunshot wounds.  

Medical personnel with the Orange County Fire Authority responded to the scene and declared the 25-year-old dead at the scene.  

Video taken just after the shooting shows officers taping off the area while beginning to search for clues, and several evidence markers were seen near a gray sedan. 

Kathryn Kelly, who claims to live next door to Swets, told KTLA 5 Orange County Bureau Chief Chip Yost that she heard several “booms” while inside her home and immediately knew they were gunshots. 

“My daughter got up and I said ‘That was a gunshot’ and then my dog ran into the backyard and I’m thinking that my dog is going to get shot,” Kelly said. “I didn’t hear anything else until my son came and said ‘Mom, there’s crime scene tape next door.’” 

She described the victim as a “super good young man” who frequently went to the gym and was part of “a wonderful family.” 

The neighborhood in which the fatal shooting occurred lies immediately to the west of the Anaheim Convention Center and southwest of Disneyland. 

A man and a woman, now identified as 41-year-old Corona resident Rashaadd Eugene Royal and 51-year-old Moreno Valley resident Jennifer Camacho Mandap, both of whom knew Swets, the release noted, were arrested on Dec. 11.  

Homicide investigators, who did not provide any information on a possible motive for the fatal shooting, said the investigation is ongoing.  

Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact Orange County Crime Stoppers at 855-TIP-OCCS.  

Authorities discovered over $100 million worth of marijuana during a massive drug bust in Southern California.

On Dec. 9, San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant for illegal marijuana cultivation at a residence on the 5000 block of Honeyhill Road in Oak Hills. 

Located on the five-acre property was a newly built 120’ x 40’ metal building, authorities said.

Inside the metal building, investigators discovered over 3,000 trash bags filled with processed marijuana. 

The piles were stacked over 12 feet high and lined the entire building. Each trash bag weighed between 30 to 50 pounds.

Over a two-day period, officials from the Marijuana Enforcement Team, San Bernardino County Code Enforcement, and California Fish and Wildlife Department seized 51 truckloads of marijuana from the stash house, which weighed over 90,000 pounds. 

The marijuana had a market value of over $100 million, authorities said.

Details on who owns the building or any suspects involved in the suspected illegal growing operation were not released by investigators.

No arrests have been made yet as authorities continue investigating the case.

A special election to fill the vacancy in California’s 36^th Senate District – which encompasses coastal Orange County – will be held in April, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said Wednesday. 

The seat is vacant after Janet Nguyen was elected to the Orange County Board of Supervisors, replacing Andrew Do, who resigned from his position as 1^st District Supervisor after agreeing to plead guilty to federal corruption charges in October. 

Nguyen had previously served on the O.C. Board of Supervisors from 2007 to 2014 and had been sworn in as the 36^th District Senator in 2022.  

After winning her first race 17 years ago by a mere seven votes, Nguyen became the first female supervisor to represent the 1^st District, the first Asian American and Vietnamese American to serve on the board, and she is also the youngest person to be elected supervisor in county history. 

The special election is set for April 29, 2025, with the primaries being held on Feb. 25.

Another special election for the same day was scheduled by Newsom for California’s 32^nd Assembly District, which includes parts of Kern and Tulare counties in the Central Valley; it was redistricted from the 34^th District in 2022.  

Vince Fong, the previous assemblymember, resigned to run for the U.S. House of Representatives despite being re-elected this past November, leaving the seat vacant.