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The Coppell Texas company said five of its outlets in the Los Angeles region are marked for closure, including stores in Tustin, Costa Mesa, Pasadena, Foothill Ranch and Long Beach.

Plasencia admitted that he traveled to Costa Mesa to buy four vials of liquid ketamine, an open box of ketamine lozenges that had been previously prescribed to a patient he didn’t know, as well as gloves and syringes from Chavez.

He has shows booked around the country through the summer, including opening for “In Case You Didn’t Know” singer Brett Young on Aug. 8 at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa.

This is why when OC Japan Fair hosted a lantern release as part of its three-day festival at Costa Mesa’s OC Fairgrounds last month, organizers opted for a safer alternative: lantern-shaped helium-filled balloons tethered by string and lit by lithium battery-powered LEDs.

The Tony Award-winning theater in Costa Mesa was not alone.