SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged today with shooting at two on-duty Brea Police Department (BPD) officers through a motel wall when they responded to a call to check his welfare. Thomas Michael Dawson, 56, Yorba Linda, is charged with two felony counts of assault with a firearm on a peace of...

A Ukiah, California, restaurateur pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen for the Northern District of California to corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the due administration of the internal revenue laws and to harboring illegal aliens for profit, announced Principal Deputy ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for the beating-murder of his ex-girlfriend. Nicholas Lee Clark, 26, Placentia, is charged with one felony count of murder. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in state prison. Clark is being held on $1 mill...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man out of custody on felony probation was charged and arraigned today for driving a sport utility vehicle (SUV) while under the influence of drugs on Interstate 405 and causing a crash that killed a 10-year-old girl and severely injured her sister and father. Adam John Kana...

A 17-year-old was charged today with fatally stabbing his former girlfriend in her Pico Rivera home last Friday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Rory Murga (dob 4/18/99) of Pico Rivera has been charged as an adult with one count of murder in case VA142607. The felony ...

LOS ANGELES– A Northern California nurse's assistant was arrested this morning on federal cyberstalking and hacking charges related to harassment and threats targeting television personality Kristen Jenner, members of her family and two assistants. Christina Elizabeth Bankston, 36, of Newark, C...

Wenxia Man, aka Wency Man, 45, of San Diego, was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for conspiring to export and cause the export of fighter jet engines, an unmanned aerial vehicle – commonly known as a drone – and related technical data to the People's Republic of China in violation of the A...

LOS ANGELES– A doctor from Pasadena who falsely certified that at least 79 Medicare and Medi-Cal patients were qualified for hospice care because they were terminally ill – when, in fact, the vast majority of them were not dying – has been sentenced to four years in federal prison. Boyao Huang,...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A driver was convicted and sentenced today for vehicular manslaughter in a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist in Laguna Beach. Dylan Thomas Rand-Luby, 21, Laguna Beach, pleaded guilty to a court offer today to one felony count of hit-and-run with injury and one misdemea...

LOS ANGELES– A Studio City man was sentenced today to 65 months in federal prison for possessing more than 1,400 credit card profiles that had been stolen from consumers who used gas pumps equipped with illegal “skimmers.” Koren Robert Kechedzian, 25, was further ordered by United States Distri...