An 18-year-old man pleaded not guilty yesterday to stabbing his teenage ex-girlfriend last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jason Scott Gustin (dob 10/21/97) of Azusa has been charged with two felony counts in case GA099518: attempted murder and aggravated mayhem...

LOS ANGELES– The United States Attorney's Office is hosting a conference next week that will bring together first responders and experts who will provide their insights on last year's terrorist attack in San Bernardino and important lessons learned that can be applied to other large-scale incide...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was formally sentenced today to receive the death penalty for using a firearm to murder his neighbor for financial gain and murdering the victim's friend in an effort to derail the investigation by framing the first victim. Daniel Patrick Wozniak, 32, Costa Mesa, was fou...

LOS ANGELES– The former operator of the Normandie Club in Gardena has been ordered to pay a $1 million criminal fine and to forfeit nearly $1.4 million after pleading guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to report large cash transactions to federal authorities. During a federal c...

LOS ANGELES– The president of an Anaheim-based bulk mailing company this week paid the United States $3 million to resolve a federal investigation into allegations that the mailer systematically misclassified postage and defrauded the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) out of millions of dollars in post...

A Sun Valley, California, man pleaded guilty today to charges related to a 2013 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in which he murdered a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, Secretary Jeh Johnson of the Department of Homeland S...

SANTA ANA, California – A Rancho Mirage woman who was the executive director of a cosmetic surgery center has been named in a superseding indictment that adds new fraud and identity theft charges to a case in which she is accused of participating in a scheme that billed insurance companies $50 mi...

The Justice Department filed a proposed consent decree today with Humboldt County, California, resolving claims that the county violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The consent decree, which is still subject to approval by the U.S. District Court for the Northern Distri...

LOS ANGELES– A Sun Valley man pleaded guilty this afternoon to 11 federal charges related to a 2013 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport in which he murdered Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez. Paul Anthony Ciancia, 26, pleaded guilty to first-degree murde...

SANTA ANA, California – After a grand jury issued a federal racketeering indictment alleging corruption by a former clerk in the Orange County Superior Court, authorities this morning arrested 10 defendants on charges stemming from a bribery scheme in which the clerk improperly and illegally reso...