LOS ANGELES– The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that the United States Marshals Service seized more than 100 cases of products labeled as containing the dangerous and unapproved ingredient Kratom. The product...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A speeding driver was convicted yesterday and sentenced to 11 years in state prison for killing two people by crashing into their car after driving through a stop sign in Santa Ana. Jorge Ocampo, 24, Santa Ana, pleaded guilty yesterday, Aug. 4, 2016, to two felony counts of ve...

LOS ANGELES –A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against a Los Angeles burger stand owner who distributed cocaine base in the form of crack cocaine. Brian Sawyers, 57, of Los Angeles, was found guilty yesterday of two felony offenses of distribution of cocaine base in the form of crack co...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) deputy has been charged with unauthorized access of a law enforcement database to view criminal histories. Angel Lora Guerrero, 57, Santa Ana, is charged with two misdemeanor counts of receiving unauthorized privileged information. ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to three years in state prison today for pimping and pandering two women he drove from Fresno to Orange County to solicit commercial sex. Kurtis Chappell, 23, Fresno, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of pimping, two felony counts of pandering by procurin...

A priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose pleaded guilty today to four counts of tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department's Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch for the Northern District of California ...

The Department of Justice announced that an Orange County, California, man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California, for his role as the owner and operator of a multi-million dollar fraudulent mortgage modification scheme that posed as a successful law firm to defraud strugg...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted today of the stabbing-murder of a stranger in a parking lot. Daniel Perez Munoz, 23, Garden Grove, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife. Perez Munoz faces a maximum sentence o...

SANTA ANA, California– An Orange County man who pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately $1.4 million from his employer – while he was pending sentencing in another $2.6 million embezzlement case – has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison. Peter Suk Lee, 49, a resident of the City o...

The former vice president of a California wholesale tool company was sentenced to 63 months in prison today for his role in a scheme to defraud East West Bank that resulted in losses of over $9 million. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U...