SACRAMENTO– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and Placer County District Attorney R. Scott Owens today announced the arraignment of Riley Bangerter, 36, of Roseville, on 11 charges of identity theft, in a case of cyber harassment. Bangerter pled not guilty when he was arraigned on January 11, 201...

A 23-year-old woman was sentenced today to six years in state prison for stabbing her toddler during a domestic dispute, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Michelle Betancourt of Cudahy pleaded no contest to a felony count of assault with a d...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Two strikers from Fresno are scheduled to be arraigned today for pimping and pandering two women in Orange County. Trent Omar Babcock, 40, and Efrain Dominguez Gonzalez, 25, are each charged with two felony counts each of pimping and two felony counts each of pandering. Babcoc...

Two residents of Glendale, California, were charged in a superseding indictment in connection with a bank fraud scheme involving the proceeds of a mass mailing scam targeting holders of U.S. trademarks. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of attacking a woman with whom he is romantically involved with a meat cleaver after an argument in their Garden Grove apartment. Thang Van Nguyen, 46, Garden Grove, is charged with one felony count of attempted murder, one f...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Santa Ana City Councilman and high-ranking executive for the County of Orange was sentenced today for sexually assaulting his subordinates and committing grand theft of public funds. Carlos Bustamante,50, Santa Ana, pleaded guilty Dec. 18, 2015, to one felony count of...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today for starting a fire in a Stanton apartment causing residents of the complex to be displaced. Brandon Tyler Williams, 43, Stanton, is charged with one felony count of arson of an inhabited property. If convicted, Williams faces a maximum...

LOS ANGELES– The operator of the Normandie Casino in Gardena agreed in court papers filed this morning to plead guilty to charges that it violated anti-money laundering provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act. As part of an agreement with federal prosecutors, the casino agreed to pay nearly $2.4 mill...

LOS ANGELES– A man who repeatedly threatened to kill a United States Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer who contacted the man in relation to an investigation into trash dumped in the San Bernardino National Forest was sentenced today 18 months in federal prison. Richard Latka, 57, of Hemet,...

LOS ANGELES– A Long Beach woman and her son have been named in federal grand jury indictments that charge them with illegally shipping hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of firearms parts and ammunition to their native Philippines – munitions that were concealed in shipments they falsely cl...