SANTA ANA, Calif. – Former Orange County Assessor Webster Guillory was sentenced today for 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 Nov. 18, 2015, ...

A Sacramento, California, resident was arrested today on a federal charge of making a false statement involving international terrorism.  Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, is charged in a complaint that was unsealed today in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of California following ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) convicted four men in October, November, and December 2015 of agreeing to engage in prostitution or loitering with the intent to commit prostitution. The defendants in these cases approached a woman whom they believed to be a...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver is scheduled to be arraigned today for evading police officers after failing to appear in court on animal abuse charges. Tiffini KuuipoTobe, 47, La Habra, was charged today, Jan. 20, 2016, with one felony count of evading while driving recklessly, one misdemea...

Two men and a teenager accused of breaking into a Downey house and killing the homeowner were charged today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Paul Darvis Misikei (dob 4/26/97), Henry Willie Sao (dob 2/4/88) and Sakaopo Atanasio Folau (dob 11/24/98) have each been charg...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A “hard money” lender was convicted today of embezzling over $3 million from investors in a Ponzi real estate-mortgage investment fraud scheme. Thomas Franklin Tarbutton, 56, Newport Beach, was found guilty by a jury of 18 felony counts of grand theft, nine felony counts of ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A “hard money” lender was convicted today of embezzling over $3 million from investors in a Ponzi real estate-mortgage investment fraud scheme. Thomas Franklin Tarbutton, 56, Newport Beach, was found guilty by a jury of 18 felony counts of grand theft, nine felony counts of ...

LOS ANGELES– Federal authorities have arrested a former captain with Alaska Airlines on federal charges of piloting a plane with passengers while under the influence of alcohol. David Hans Arntson, 60, a resident of Newport Beach, was arrested yesterday morning and was arraigned on the felony c...

LOS ANGELES– Federal authorities have arrested a former captain with Alaska Airlines on federal charges of piloting a plane with passengers while under the influence of alcohol. David Hans Arntson, 60, a resident of Newport Beach, was arrested yesterday morning and was arraigned on the felony c...

LOS ANGELES– A Riverside woman has been convicted on federal identity theft charges for possessing the identities of more than 50 patients of a residential medical facility in Long Beach formerly known as the Hillcrest Care Center. Bridgette Jackson, 45, was convicted by a jury yesterday aftern...