Victims Paid the Attorney Well Over $1 Million, Which He Allegedly Used for Personal Expenses and Never Reported as Income to IRS SANTA ANA, California – A disbarred California attorney was arrested this morning on federal charges of running a mortgage modification scheme that defrauded more tha...

A federal grand jury in Oakland, California, indicted Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin 29, of Moscow, Russia, yesterday for obtaining information from computers, causing damage to computers, trafficking in access devices, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. S...

LOS ANGELES — An Inland Empire man who allegedly posed as an immigration attorney and two female accomplices face a federal indictment charging them with operating an immigration fraud scheme in which they created phony employment visas and other bogus documents for foreign nationals who were se...

A former Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) supervisory special agent was sentenced in federal court today to 144 months in prison for disclosing sensitive law enforcement reports to a defense contractor who was the target of a criminal fraud investigation in exchange for cash, luxury tr...

SANTA ANA, California– After conducting surveillance on a suspect in a series of armed robberies that targeted Orange County gas stations, federal agents and local authorities last night arrested a Fontana man on federal charges after he allegedly used what appeared to be a handgun to rob a Chev...

A former Los Angeles police detention officer who worked in the Valley Jail Division and a couple who owned a Sherman Oaks bail bond company pleaded guilty today to a bail solicitation scheme, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Leonard Jimmy Ramirez, 44, William Aroutoun...

A Los Angeles man who was the owner of a medical supply company was sentenced to 60 months in prison for his role in a scheme that fraudulently billed more than $4 million to Medicare. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Eilee...

LOS ANGELES– A Ventura County man who illegally sold five firearms in less than a month and agreed to sell three more during an undercover operation last year has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison. Joshua Pineda, 24, of Thousand Oaks, was sentenced on Monday to 57 months in ...

LOS ANGELES– Necromance, a West Hollywood shop that sells novelty wildlife items, and its owner were sentenced today in federal court for violating the Endangered Species Act by unlawfully importing seahorses. Necromance and Nancy Delap Smith, 56, of Studio City pleaded guilty in July to misdemea...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to four years in county jail today for assaulting a female jogger while brandishing an imitation firearm. Sean Luke Salaber, 23, Riverside, was found guilty by a jury on Sept. 7, 2016, of one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, or...