Irvine
Arrest Made in Woman’s Death: Police on Monday announced the arrest of a Garden Grove man in the beating death of an 18-year-old woman whose nude body was found May 5 in an Irvine home. Gregory Jesus Gonzalez, 19, was arrested Saturday night as he was driving his car near Brookhurst Street and Lampson Avenue in Garden Grove. Officers said Gonzalez offered no resistance. The body of Janelle Lisa Cruz was discovered by a real estate agent in a house in the Northwood area of the city. An autopsy showed she had been killed by blows to the head.
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