LOS ANGELES –United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker announced today the launch of a new community outreach program to address the growing epidemic of heroin and prescription opioid abuse. Because of the public health crisis stemming from the abuse of prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Vi...

LOS ANGELES– A West Los Angeles man who was the owner of a medical supply company has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in a scheme that fraudulently billed more than $4 million to Medicare. Valery Bogomolny, 44, of Westwood, was sentenced yesterday by United States Di...

A capital murder charge was filed today against a parolee for the alleged execution-style shooting death of Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Steven Owen, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Trenton Trevon Lovell (dob 8/3/89) faces one count of murder with the special cir...

SANTA ANA, California– Federal prosecutors have secured guilty pleas from seven defendants who participated in a large-scale international identity theft scheme that laundered more than $14 million in fraudulently obtained tax refunds by using bogus Republic of Armenia passports. This week, spe...

RIVERSIDE, California– A federal grand jury has indicted a San Jacinto man on charges of producing child pornography for allegedly making videos while he sexually molested a 5-year-old boy. Steve Alonso Marquez, 31, of San Jacinto, was named in a four-count indictment returned by the grand jury...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County business owner was sentenced to one year in county jail for committing over $200,000 in tax fraud and failing to pay employees prevailing wage for work performed on two public works contracts. Shamseddin Hashemi-Mousavi, 64, Irvine, was found guilty by a jury ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former teacher was convicted today of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Jeffrey Scott Jones, 56, Huntington Beach, was found guilty by a jury of two felony counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one felony count of continuous sexual abuse. He faces a maximu...

Muhanad Elfatih M.A. Badawi, 25, of Anaheim, California, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring with another man to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The announcement was made by Acting Ass...

A federal grand jury in Sacramento, California returned an indictment today charging a former Internal Revenue Service–Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) special agent with six counts of filing false income tax returns, one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the internal revenue laws, one co...

SANTA ANA, California– A former resident of Orange County who now lives in northern San Diego County has been found guilty of tax evasion and lying to the IRS after applying for a passport in a false name as he attempted to flee from the prosecution. Louis Joseph Vadino, 75, currently of Ramona a...