A 62-year-old man who kidnapped a 4-year-old girl from her front yard was found guilty today by an Antelope Valley jury, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami said Earl Duane Williams of Los Angeles was found guilty of kidnapping to commi...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced today for owing nearly $2 million from a tax evasion and insurance fraud scheme. Rand Robert Gordon, 61, Laguna Hills, pleaded guilty Feb. 19, 2015, to five felony counts of misrepresenting facts to the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF), one felony c...

LOS ANGELES– The former chief information officer for the Screen Actors Guild's Producers Pension and Health Plan (PPHP) has pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return in which he failed to report income he received from contractors hired to upgrade the PPHP computer system. Nader Karimi, 51, of...

LOS ANGELES– A San Fernando Valley man who hacked into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on a well-known “revenge porn” website was sentenced today to 25 months in federal prison on computer crime and identity theft charges. Charles Evens, 26, of Studio City, was sentenc...

LOS ANGELES– Concluding one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever seen in Southern California, two men who operated a Calabasas firm at the center of a scam that cost victims approximately $135 million were sentenced today, with one man being ordered to serve nine years, and the other a decade, in fe...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Two violent criminal street gangs in the City of Placentia have been preliminarily enjoined from terrorizing the community and acting as a public nuisance, marking the 14th and 15th injunctions to be brought against Orange County gangs. There were 51 participants served betwee...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer is scheduled to face trial tomorrow on charges of attempting to commit a lewd act with a 12-year-old girl and indecent exposure to five female victims in Huntington Beach. Ryan Eric Galliher, 33, Huntington Beach, is charged with ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted today of strangling and murdering his wife in their Irvine apartment. Shalabh Rastogi, 42, Irvine, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of first degree murder. Rastogi faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in state prison at his sentencing ...

FRESNO – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms Special Agents have removed more than 500 firearms from a single individual that is legally barred from owning them and is in the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS) database.  T...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Former Orange County Assessor Webster Guillory was convicted today of filing false nomination papers in a re-election bid for County Assessor in the June 2014 Orange County primary election. Webster James Guillory, 71, Newport Beach, was found guilty by a jury of two misdemean...