ORANGE COUNTY’S BABY SNATCHERS
On April 10, 2024, Orange County officials—led by OCDA Investigator Joe Faria and Newport Beach Detective Mike Fletcher—stormed a Costa Mesa parking lot, seizing two toddlers from their protective mother, Joy Houghton. The raid, ordered by Deputy DA Tammy Jacobs and endorsed by Judge James Waltz, was conducted on behalf of Gareth Naar, a man freshly convicted in Australia of domestic violence and stalking. What followed was a five-day courtroom ordeal where the abuser was rewarded custody, and the victim criminalized—a shocking abuse of power that exposes systemic corruption within Orange County’s family courts.














