LOS ANGELES– A medical doctor who served as the face of a sham Los Angeles clinic pleaded guilty today to federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges connected to her illegal distribution of the powerful painkiller best known by the brand name OxyContin. Dr. Madhu Garg, 64, of Glendor...

SAN FRANCISCO– Today Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced that California will join the U.S. Department of Justice, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 48 other states in entering into a consent judgment with mortgage lender and servicer HSBC over its faulty mortgage servicing...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted and sentenced today for illegally reimbursing contributors for Janet Nguyen's 2012 Orange County Board of Supervisors election campaign. Son Truong Nguyen, 39, Fountain Valley, pleaded guilty today to 10 misdemeanor counts of unlawful contribution. He was s...

A Los Angeles man was charged today with the 2009 murder of a woman whose body was discovered last year behind a wall in a Lomita residence, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Randolph E. Garbutt (dob 8/15/72) is scheduled to be arraigned today at the Torrance Branch of ...

SANTA ANA, California– An Irvine-based immigration attorney has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for obstructing justice in relation to a scheme in which he agreed to help a Chinese national flee from the United States after the woman had been designated as a “material witness” in a...

A 33-year-old man was sentenced today to 16 years in state prison for raping two women in separate incidents in Long Beach, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Oct. 13, 2015, defendant David Faavale Tautolo of Signal Hill pleaded no contest to two counts of forcible ra...

LOS ANGELES – Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to federal authorities who were conducting a wide-ranging corruption and civil rights investigation into the Sheriff's Department. In a plea agreement filed this mo...

A 33-year-old man was sentenced yesterday to 15 years to life in state prison for driving under the influence of alcohol and crashing into motorcyclist who later died, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At Tuesday's court appearance, defendant George Edward Allison Jr. (...

A 33-year-old man was sentenced today to life in state prison for stabbing his ex-girlfriend during a domestic violence incident and trying to evade police, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Jan. 21, a jury found defendant Miguel Roman Gutierrez guilty of three felon...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to face trial Tuesday for murdering his neighbor by shooting him in the face. Robert Joseph Price, 55, Garden Grove, is charged with one felony count of murder with sentencing enhancement allegations for the personal discharge of a firearm causing death and ...