ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE
Case # 13NF2644
Date: April 24, 2015
SANTA ANA – Two former parks and recreation (PAR) managers for the City of Buena Park were convicted and sentenced today for public corruption and embezzling over $1.3 million from the City. Former PAR maintenance manager Rudolph Peter Juarez, 58, Anaheim, pleaded guilty today to 233 felony counts of misappropriation of public funds and four felony counts of filing a false tax return and sentencing enhancements and allegations for causing over $100,000 loss, aggravated white collar crime over $500,000, and property loss over $1.3 million.
Former PAR supervisor Gabriel A. Garcia, 42, Chino Hills, pleaded guilty today to 186 felony counts of misappropriation of public funds and four felony counts of willful failure to file or making a fraudulent tax return and sentencing enhancements and allegations for causing over $100,000 loss, aggravated white collar crime over $500,000, and property loss over $1.3 million. Continue reading