A 29-year-old man was sentenced today to nine years in state prison for getting into a physical altercation with a family member that resulted in a death, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Aug. 30, Ramon Velasquez Jr. of Compton pleaded no contest to a felony count o...

A 40-year-old man was sentenced today to 26 years to life in state prison for the 2002 murder of a man found dead at the Port of Long Beach, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Aug. 5, a jury found Stewart Maua Teofilo (dob 3/14/76) guilty of first-degree murder in cas...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged today with involuntary manslaughter after a teen was shot in the defendant's home. Matthew Jacob Granados, 21, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of involuntary manslaughter by a lawful act in an unlawful manner with a sentencing enhancement for the ...

A 26-year-old man was sentenced yesterday afternoon for stealing from a church last month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Aug. 22, Trevor Fix of Long Beach pleaded no contest to three felony counts in case NA104771: two counts of second-degree burglary and one cou...

A registered arsonist was sentenced today to 16 years to life in state prison for trying to set a woman's car on fire outside of a Lancaster motel, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On July 26, a jury found Edmund Crigler Pemberton (dob 6/6/60) of Lancaster guilty of tw...

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles nursing home and two physicians who worked at the facility have paid $3,563,140 to resolve civil allegations that they participated in a scheme to improperly transfer patients recruited from the “Skid Row” district to a hospital for medically unnecessary services, and ...

LOS ANGELES– With guilty pleas this week by a leader of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC), the three lead defendants in the largest racketeering case currently pending in Los Angeles have now pleaded guilty. Tyrine Martinez, also known as “Lil' C-Bone,” 36, of Los Angeles, pleaded gu...

A 20-year-old man accused of killing his friend and dumping the victim's body in a canyon pleaded not guilty today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Phillip Von Wade (dob 3/15/96) of West Covina was charged this morning with one count of murder in case KA113465. The fe...

James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, pleaded guilty today for his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel” v...

RIVERSIDE, California– A correctional officer employed by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons at the Victorville Federal Correctional Complex has been arrested on federal civil rights and assault charges stemming from an incident in which she allegedly kicked a female inmate in the head. Cynthia Flores,...