A man serving time for a robbery conviction was charged today with the brutal fatal stabbing of a bar owner 14 years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Hugo Lara (dob 4/23/73), aka Whisper, was charged with one count of murder in case BA441878 as well as a special a...

A jury today recommended the death penalty for a 34-year-old man convicted of gunning down four people outside a Northridge boarding home two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The same jury that on Nov. 19 found Ka Pasasouk guilty of four counts of first-degr...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted yesterday of assaulting a 2-year-old child causing his death. Lae Thong Thongpun, 33, Garden Grove, was found guilty by a jury yesterday, Dec. 14, 2015, of one felony count of involuntary manslaughter and one felony count of assault on a child under 8 years...

SACRAMENTO– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the arrest of Alex Morales III, 54, an employee of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), on bribery charges. Morales allegedly received bribes in the form of money and a vehicle in return for ensuring that Americans w...

Lumsden W. Quan, 47, an art dealer from San Francisco, California, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Vegas, Nevada, to one year and two days in prison for conspiracy to violate the Lacey and Endangered Species Acts and to a violation of the Lacey Act for knowingly selling black rhinocer...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged yesterday for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl, who was waiting on a curb in line for Christmas presents at a school. Raul Marin Martin, 59, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of committing a lewd act upon a child under the age of 14, and alleg...

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles art dealer has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle looted archeological resources into the United States, and then using those antiquities as the basis of a charitable donation tax fraud scheme involving local museums. Jonathan M. Mar...

A jury today found three men guilty of killing a robbery co-conspirator in 2010, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The jury deliberated for a week before finding Luis Orozco (dob 11/21/78), Shawn Verrette (dob 6/12/73) and Frank Ervin (2/2/62) guilty of three counts: fi...

LOS ANGELES– A former administrator of a Los Angeles law firm was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $3.3 million from her employer. Esterlina Santos, 53, who resides in the Ladera Heights district of Los Angeles, was also ordered by United States District Jud...

LOS ANGELES– A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pleaded guilty this afternoon to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a man who had been accused of trafficking a woman into the United States to be a sex slav...