LOS ANGELES – A Toronto couple who were extradited earlier this year to the United States have been sentenced for their roles in a mass marketing scheme that targeted hundreds of victims across the United States with counterfeit checks that accompanied bogus claims they had been selected to beco...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County man was convicted and sentenced yesterday to 10 years in state prison for running an $11 million Ponzi scheme and victimizing over 27 people with sale of unsecured securities based on fraudulent insurance policies. Joseph Francis Bartholomew, 77, Lake Forest, ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Northern California man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring to pimp a woman and illegally possessing a stun gun in his vehicle. Binh Cong Thai, 29, San Jose, pleaded guilty on March 3, 2016, to one felony count of conspiracy to commit pimping and one misdemean...

The current senior vice president of sales of a leading packaged seafood company has agreed to plead guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fix the prices of packaged seafood such as canned tuna sold in the United States, the Department of Justice announced. According to a one-count felony charge...

LOS ANGELES – A West Los Angeles man who previously worked as a teacher's assistant was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography via a peer-to-peer file-sharing system on his computer. The images involved in this case depicted children under the age of 15...

LOS ANGELES – A South Los Angeles man was sentenced this morning to 15 years in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine on two occasions, including one transaction that took place at his hamburger stand. Brian Sawyers, 57, was sentenced by United States District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew for ...

SAN FRANCISCO – California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that California, along with 42 other states and the District of Columbia, has reached a $19.5 million agreement with biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb over allegations that the company illegally marketed the...

A 20-year-old man has been charged with accidentally killing a 24-year-old woman at a Tarzana hiking trail, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Heriberto Gonzalez, aka Kirby, (dob 5/27/96) was charged yesterday with one felony count each of involuntary manslaughter ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former pastor was sentenced today to two years in state prison and mandatory lifetime sex offender registration for sexual battery of four female church members. Sean Patrick Aday, 39, Lake Forest, pleaded guilty on Nov. 4, 2016, to two felony counts of sexual battery by res...

A 27-year-old man was convicted today of murder for the slayings of his then-girlfriend's grandparents in 2010, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Scott McPheron of the Family Violence Division said jurors deliberated for two days before finding ...