Riverside, California – A Seal Beach man has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges related to a mortgage rescue scheme in which he made false promises to the distressed homeowner, filed fraudulent bankruptcies to delay foreclosure and rented the property to third parties as the foreclosure proc...

LOS ANGELES– A former registered representative at a now-defunct Sherman Oaks brokerage and investment firm was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison on wire fraud charges associated with a real estate investment scam that resulted in about five dozen investors losing nearly $4 million. ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A registered sex offender was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for the special circumstances murder of a 29-year-old woman in the course of sexually assaulting her in a Stanton motel room. Charles Patrick Drew, 65, transient, was found ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man who was driving under the influence of heroin was convicted today of murdering a bicyclist in a hit-and-run crash in Newport Beach. Neil Storm Stephany, 24, Huntington Beach, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of murder. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 year...

A Winnetka man has been charged in connection with the alleged kidnapping and shooting of Joel Keith Ravin, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Deputy District Attorney Sheetal Jhala said Randall Elmer Stinson (dob 7/21/85) was charged yesterday with two counts of a...

LOS ANGELES– The owners and operators of 10 Southern California businesses were charged today in federal court with illegally selling cosmetic contact lenses without prescriptions. Some of the products that were purchased in connection with this investigation were contaminated with dangerous path...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A speeding driver under the influence of drugs was sentenced today to 18 years in state prison for driving through a red light and killing a woman crossing the intersection at a shopping center. Paul Collins Pike, 33, Orange, pleaded guilty to a court offer Friday, Oct. 23, 20...

APL Limited has agreed to pay the government $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with a contract to provide GPS tracking of shipping containers in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced today.  APL, an ocean carrier based in Scottsdale, A...

A 53-year-old man was charged today after he was accused of fatally stabbing another man in Whittier, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. George Luis Delgado (dob 3/14/62) of Pico Rivera has been charged with one count of murder in case VA140282. The felony complaint incl...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted yesterday of having unlawful sexual intercourse with four underage girls, providing them with drugs and trafficking three of the victims. Daryl Anthony Hicks, 57, Midway City, was convicted by a jury yesterday Oct. 7, 2015, of three felony counts of human t...