SANTA ANA, California– A Garden Grove man was taken into federal custody this morning after being charged with receiving sexual videos from a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet and traveling to Canada to have sex with the girl. Paul Binh Do, 29, was arrested after he surrendered himself t...

LOS ANGELES– A Sacramento man was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison today for producing child pornography that was used to advertise the victim as a prostitute. Antonio Dickerson, 26, was found guilty in February by a federal jury of one count of sexual exploitation of a minor for p...

LOS ANGELES– Postal Inspectors this morning arrested a Monrovia woman on federal charges of assaulting a mail carrier, who allegedly was subjected to racial epithets and then pepper sprayed in the face. Ruby Guerrero Valenzuela, 64, was arrested on charges of assaulting the United States Postal...

LOS ANGELES – A Riverside man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possessing about 100 images depicting child pornography, including sexually explicit pictures of pre-pubescent girls under the age of 12. James Gregory O'Neill, 58, was sentenced Monday afternoon by United States...

SANTA ANA, California– A former Garden Grove resident pleaded not guilty this afternoon to federal charges of hacking into the computer system of Blue Stone Strategy Group – an Irvine-based company and the man's former employer – and deleting files. Nikishna Polequaptewa, 34, who currently resi...

LOS ANGELES – A longtime member of the Mexican Mafia-affiliated Southside Montebello street gang was found guilty this afternoon of federal racketeering charges that included providing a firearm used by another gang member to kill a rival. George Vera Sr., 48, was convicted by a federal jury th...

SANTA ANA, California– A longtime member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang who controlled Latino street gangs in Orange County for at least three decades was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison after being found guilty earlier this year of federal racketeering offenses. Peter Ojeda, 74...

SANTA ANA, California– An Orange County man has pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately $1.4 million from his employer, a crime he committed when he was pending sentencing in another embezzlement case involving another former employer. Peter Suk Lee, 49, a resident of the City of Orange, ple...

LOS ANGELES– Two Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies who were found guilty after a two-week trial earlier this year of falsifying reports with the intent to obstruct justice related to their assault of a waist-chained  inmate were sentenced to prison terms today. Former deputies Joey Aguiar, 28, and...

LOS ANGELES– In a plea agreement filed this morning, a Glendale doctor has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge for illegally distributing hydrocodone, a powerful painkiller best known by the brand names Vicodin and Norco. Dr. Manasseh Nwaigwe, 72, who resides in Glendale...