SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Board of Parole Hearings (Panel), California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denied parole three years for an inmate convicted of the 1983 beating murder of a man who had offered him and his co-defendant a ride when they were hitchhiking. David Eugene Hayes, 5...

LOS ANGELES – A Hacienda Heights couple pleaded guilty today to federal fraud charges related to their participating in a scheme that generated millions of dollars by soliciting investments in a company that purportedly offered children's educational courses – but in reality was a pyramid scheme ...

LOS ANGELES– Concluding a three-year investigation, authorities today arrested 11 defendants who are accused of using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to receive and possess – and, in some cases, distribute – child pornography. The arrests are the results of eight indictments filed in United ...

LOS ANGELES– A couple from Walnut, California and two of their import and distribution companies have been sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a wide variety of criminal activity, including smuggling Harp Seal oil into the United States from China, falsely classifying goods to avoid im...

LOS ANGELES– A police officer employed by the Los Angeles Unified School District was taken into federal custody this morning after being named in an indictment that charges him with the attempted sex trafficking of a child. Mauricio Edgardo Estrada, 28, who has been placed on administrative le...

Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. will plead guilty for conspiring with competitors between 2002 and 2010 to fix prices for electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. “Hitachi Chemical subsidiaries and co-conspirators fixed th...

LOS ANGELES– The general manager of a La Puente garment factory has been found guilty of federal charges of offering to pay bribes to an investigator with the United States Department of Labor in exchange for the investigator closing an investigation into wage violations. Howard Quoc Trinh, 42,...

LOS ANGELES– An Irvine man was arrested this morning on federal charges of illegally flying a twin-engine Falcon 10 turbojet airplane with passengers onboard without having a valid pilot's license. Arnold Gerald Leto III, 36, was charged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in United States ...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Kun Wo Food Products Inc. (Kun Wo) and the firm's co-owners, Zi Xing Liu and Zi Cheng Liu, to prevent the distribution of adulterated rice noodles, the Department of Justice an...

LOS ANGELES– A Gardena man has been found guilty of 14 felony counts for trafficking seven girls who worked as prostitutes, several of whom worked under threats of force, fraud or coercion. Laron Carter, also known as “Birdd” and variations of that moniker, 39, was found guilty yesterday aftern...