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Re: Aliso Viejo Mother Charged with Felony Child Endangerment

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On 25 Apr 2026, "B. Clark" <no@mercy.org> posted some
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
> Date: April 22, 2026
> Case # 26HF1029 
> PRESS RELEASE 
> Kimberly Edds Director of Public Affairs Office: 714-347-8405, Cell:
> 714-504-1917 media@ocdapa.org 
> 
> Aliso Viejo Mother Charged with Felony Child Endangerment After
> Vietnam Veteran Critically Injured When He Was Hit by Woman's
> 14-Year-old Son Illegally Riding an E-Motorcycle 16 Times More
> Powerful than E-Bike Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer
> warns parents he will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law
> when they allow their children to ride illegal motor vehicles and
> endanger their safety and the safety of others. SANTA ANA, Calif. - An
> Aliso Viejo mother who had been repeatedly warned of the dangers of
> continuing to allow her middle school son to illegally ride an
> E-motorcycle has been charged with felony child endangerment and
> felony accessory after the fact of a crime after her 14-year-old son
> hit and critically injured an 81-year-old Vietnam veteran while the
> boy was doing wheelies on an E-motorcycle in Lake Forest. The victim
> remains hospitalized in critical condition. 
> 
> Since January, the Orange County District Attorney's Office has filed
> child endangerment charges against three parents for allowing their
> children to illegally ride E-motorcycles, including against a Yorba
> Linda father whose 12-year-old son was critically injured after he ran
> a red light and was hit by a car while riding an Emotorcycle which had
> been modified to go up to 60 miles per hour, after the boy and his
> father had been warned about the dangers of children riding
> E-motorcycles illegally. He faces a maximum sentence of six years in
> state prison if convicted on all counts. 
> 
> Tommi Jo Mejer, 50, of Aliso Viejo, has been charged with one felony
> count of child endangerment, one felony count of accessory after the
> fact to a crime, one misdemeanor count of contributing to the
> delinquency of a minor, one misdemeanor count of loaning a motor
> vehicle to an unlicensed driver, and one misdemeanor count of
> providing false information to a peace officer. She faces a maximum
> sentence of six years and eight months in state prison if convicted on
> all counts. 
> 
> Mejer was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff's Department on
> Tuesday at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange. On Thursday, April
> 16, 2026, around 4 p.m., Orange County Sheriff's deputies were called
> to respond to Toledo Way and Ridge Route Drive, which borders El Toro
> High School, for a pedestrian hit by an Emotorcycle. 
> 
> The victim, later identified as an 81-year-old substitute teacher and
> captain in the United States Marine Corps who flew combat missions in
> Vietnam, was critically injured after being hit by a teenage boy doing
> wheelies in the middle of the street. The rider of the Surron
> E-motorcycle left the scene of the collision. 
> 
> In June 2025, Mejer called the Orange County Sheriff's Department to
> complain that someone was posting pictures of her then-13-year-old son
> riding an E-motorcycle. During a 28-minute interaction with two Orange
> County Sheriff's deputies captured on body worn camera, Mejer admitted
> that she purchased her son a Surron E-motorcycle and knew that he
> drove it recklessly. The deputies warned her that she could face
> potential criminal charges if she continued to allow him to ride the
> E-motorcycle which he could not legally ride. 
> 
> Riders of Class 3 E-motorcycles must be 16 years of age and possess a
> motorcycle license. 
> 
> A law enforcement inspection of the 2025 Surron Ultra Bee, the vehicle
> involved in last week's collision, revealed the vehicle is classified
> as a motor-driven cycle under CVC section 405 or a motorcycle under
> CVC section 400. Both classifications require a valid motorcycle
> license for street operation, as well as DMV registration, license
> plate, insurance and full motorcycle equipment. Without complying with
> these requirements, the only approved use of this E-motorcycle is
> either on private property or properly registered as Off-Highway
> Vehicle (OHV) areas. 
> 
> The Surron Ultra Bee is marketed as an off-road E-motorcycle capable
> of going up to speeds of 58 miles per hour and accelerating from 0-31
> miles per hour in 2.3 seconds. With a peak power of 12.5kW, the output
> of a Surron Ultra Bee is 16 times more powerful than what is legally
> allowed for an E-bike. 
> 
> Hours after the collision, Mejer is seen on body worn camera
> repeatedly telling Orange County Sheriff's deputies investigating the
> injury crash that neither she nor her teenage son own a Surron or have
> access to one. 
> 
> California law distinguishes between e-bikes and E-motorcycles based
> on three main features: the power limit of its motor, its maximum
> speed limit, and whether it is equipped with operable pedals. Electric
> bicycles with Class 1 or Class 2 designations do not have rider age or
> licensing restrictions; e-bikes with Class 3 designations require
> riders to be aged 16 or older. 
> 
> Generally, an electric bike that does not qualify as Class 1, 2 or 3,
> will be classified as an electric motorcycle. That means either that
> the bike has an electric motor that exceeds 750 watts of power or can
> reach speeds higher than 20-mph on motor power alone. Additionally, if
> the bike is not equipped with fully operable pedals, or if it has been
> modified to reach speeds higher than 20-mph or to attain power higher
> than 750 watts, the bike cannot be designated an electric bike and
> instead would be considered an E-motorcycle. 
> 
> Per Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 827 and 828, the District
> Attorney's Office is prohibited from disclosing the name of juveniles
> involved in criminal investigations or discussing juvenile
> investigations. 
> 
> "Parents who buy their child an E-motorcycle and let them ride them
> illegally or help modify e-Bikes to transform them into E-motorcycles
> are handing their children a loaded weapon - and those parents are
> going to be prosecuted. That is not a threat. That is a promise," said
> Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. "This 81-year-old man
> survived flying combat missions in Vietnam protecting freedom and now
> he is clinging to life because a mother refused to parent her child
> and he was run over in the street by a vehicle that should have never
> been on the road. There is absolutely no reason that an unlicensed,
> untrained child with no concept of the rules of the road should be
> riding a motorcycle that can go up to nearly 60 miles per hour next to
> cars on a public street and think that by some miracle they are going
> to be safe. The state Legislature has made it virtually impossible for
> prosecutors to hold juveniles accountable for committing serious
> crimes, and the only way to stop the carnage E-Bikes and E-motorcycles
> are causing across Orange County is to hold parents accountable for
> the crimes they allow their children to commit." 
> 
> Senior Deputy District Attorney Noor Hasan of the Family Protection
> Unit is prosecuting this case. 
> 
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> 
> https://orangecountyda.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Tommi-Jo-Mejer.pd
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The adults are worse than the kids.

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