SANTA ANA, Calif. – A taxi cab driver was sentenced today to one year in jail for crashing into a pedestrian, resulting in the victim's death, and driving away from the scene. Ronald Aviles, 58, San Clemente, was found guilty by a jury on Oct. 24, 2016, of one felony count of hit and run with dea...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Two men, who were extradited from Arizona and Illinois, are scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for the cold case kidnapping and rape of an 11-year-old girl in 1999. Ismael F. Salgado, 36, Chicago, Ill., and Jose Andres Plascencia, 36, Laveen, Ariz., are each charged with one f...

SANTA ANA, California– A former teacher with the Santa Ana School District who traveled to the Philippines to engage in sex with two girls and produced videos of the abuse has been convicted in federal court of seven child exploitation offenses. Robert Ruben Ornelas, 65, of Santa Ana, a onetime s...

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles doctor has been convicted of federal “structuring” charges for making cash deposits totaling nearly a half million dollars that were designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements. Washington Bryan II, 48, of Westwood, was found guilty yesterday afternoon by a ju...

LOS ANGELES– As part of an ongoing undercover operation by Special Agents with the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS), five fraudulent “documents mills” have been dismantled in recent months, and the investigation has now resulted in charges against 13 defendants who allegedly produced bogu...

LOS ANGELES– Ally Financial Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $52 million to settle allegations that its subsidiaries acted improperly in relation to 10 subprime residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) in 2006 and 2007. Asettlement agreementannounced today resolves an investigation i...

LOS ANGELES– A longtime member of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) street gang has pleaded guilty to federal charges and admitted to trafficking in narcotics and participating in a series of armed robberies that targeted bank customers and small businesses. Akia Pete, also known as ...

The Justice Department announced today that Bechtel National Inc., Bechtel Corp., URS Corp. (predecessor in interest to AECOM Global II LLC) and URS Energy and Construction Inc. (now known as AECOM Energy and Construction Inc.) have agreed to pay $125 million to resolve allegations under the Fals...

A former assistant engineer for the City of Santa Clarita pleaded no contest today to embezzling more than $533,000 and was sentenced to four years in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. David Rubira, 41, pleaded no contest to one felony count of misappropri...

LOS ANGELES– A Long Beach man was sentenced today to four years in federal prison in relation to a mortgage rescue scheme that brought in nearly $3 million from fees from distressed homeowners. Karl Robinson, 52, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Manuel L. Real, who also ordere...