FULLERTON, Calif. – A man was arraigned Friday on charges of attempting to traffic and pimp an undercover officer posing as a minor girl on social media. Joseph Deandre Edwards, 21, Anaheim, is charged with one felony count of attempted human trafficking of a minor, one felony count of attempted ...

A former executive of a Singapore-based defense contracting firm was sentenced to 63 months in prison today for his participation in a fraud scheme that over-billed the U.S. Navy by more than $34 million for ship husbanding services. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice D...

A 20-year-old man was convicted today of fatally stabbing another man in Monterey Park, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The jury deliberated for a day before finding Angel Octavion Garcia guilty of second-degree murder in case GA095071. Jurors also found true a specia...

SANTA ANA, California – A Rancho Mirage cosmetic surgeon pleaded guilty this morning in a scheme to defraud health insurance companies by submitting bills for more than $3.4 million for procedures that he claimed were “medically necessary” – but in fact were cosmetic procedures such as “tummy tu...

LOS ANGELES– The lead defendant in a bank fraud case who oversaw a scheme in which Wells Fargo Bank employees stole customer account data – information that was used to impersonate customers and steal money from their accounts – has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges. Ronald Charles Reed, ...

LOS ANGELES– A Lompoc man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of trafficking in counterfeit goods for using two websites to market and sell counterfeit versions of Adobe software Jeffrey Scott Patterson, 52, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court. In his plea agreement and...

LOS ANGELES– An East Los Angeles man who oversaw a scheme that embezzled more than $8 million from an industrial launderer that provided finishing services for Citizens of Humanity, a manufacturer of high-end designer jeans, pleaded guilty this morning to federal charges. Luis Mariano Rodriguez...

SAN DIEGO– The owner of a Glendale-based ride-sharing business was sentenced in federal court today to more than eight years in prison in two separate fraud cases, including one involving the sale of more than 30,000 Apple iPhones fraudulently obtained from Verizon Wireless at substantially disc...

A resident of Montrose, California, was indicted today in a superseding indictment by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places and sex trafficking of a minor, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Cr...

LOS ANGELES– A Chinese national pleaded guilty today to participating in a years-long conspiracy to hack into the computer networks of major United States defense contractors, steal sensitive military and export-controlled data, and send the stolen information to China. Su Bin, who is also know...