After spending 20 years in a state mental hospital, a Costa Mesa man who was required to register as a sex offender is now free, thereby prompting Orange County officials to warn the public and ask Gov. Gavin Newsom to intervene. Cary Jay Smith, 59, was sent to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino in … Continue reading O.C. officials warn of sex offender’s release from mental hospital after 20 years