SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 96-year-old man is scheduled to be arraigned for sexually assaulting two girls under the age of 14 in his home. Kenneth Leroy Collins, 96, Laguna Woods, is charged with four felony counts of committing a lewd act upon a child under the age of 14 with sentencing enhancement a...

LOS ANGELES– A North Hollywood man has been sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for his role in a tax fraud conspiracy scheme that fraudulently claimed more than $1.2 million in fraudulent tax refunds. Antonio Jerome Cook, 37, received the prison sentence yesterday from United States Distr...

LOS ANGELES– A Bay Area man was found guilty this afternoon of travelling to Cambodia to have illicit sexual conduct with young girls. Ronald Gerard Boyajian, 55, who resided in Menlo Park and previously spent time on the Palos Verdes peninsula, was found guilty of three child exploitation crim...

A Torrance man was sentenced today to 58 years to life in state prison for raping a woman while he was out on bail on another case, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Frank Dunnick said Guy Allen Dietz, 45, was convicted on Jan. 28 of forcible ra...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is expected to be arraigned today for stabbing and murdering a concert attendee in Santa Ana during a live performance. Juan Angel Rivera, 21, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife. If convicte...

Joseph Chait, the senior auction administrator of a Beverly Hills, California, gallery and auction house, pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle wildlife products made from rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and coral with a market value of at least approximately $1 million, announced Assistant Att...

LOS ANGELES– A Santa Monica man pleaded guilty this morning to a federal conspiracy charge stemming from a “synthetic identity” fraud ring that created bogus identities for the purpose of obtaining credit cards. Yair Shoshani, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. ...

A 27-year-old man was charged today with trafficking a minor for sex and sexually abusing the teenage girl for nearly a month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Patrick Lamont Harris (dob 10/22/88) has been charged with seven felony counts in case NA103753: four counts ...

A 42-year-old man was sentenced today to 31 years to life in state prison for planning to kill his wife's mother in her Long Beach home, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Dec. 1, 2015, a jury convicted Frank Haverly of three felony counts: conspiracy to commit murder...

A Sylmar woman was sentenced today to five years in state prison for forcing a young girl smuggled from El Salvador to work for her for two years, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office announced. Dora Alicia Valle, 52, pleaded no contest last July to one felony count each of human tra...