LOS ANGELES – A convicted sex offender from Long Beach has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of attempted sex trafficking of a child for allegedly responding to an online advertisement that offered sex with a 15-year-old girl in exchange for $200. Victor James Sporman, 46, who pr...

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles man facing federal drug trafficking charges for allegedly trying to smuggle at least a kilogram of heroin on a plane leaving Los Angeles International Airport is scheduled to make his first court appearance this afternoon. James Mitchell, 25, who resides in Pico-Unio...

SACRAMENTO — Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that her office has filed new criminal charges against Carl Ferrer, Chief Executive Officer of online advertising website Backpage.com, and Michael Lacey and James Larkin, controlling shareholders of Backpage. Following the uncoverin...

A 34-year-old man has been charged today with killing a woman with a hammer and burying her body in a backyard, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jackie Jerome Rogers (dob 10/10/82) of Lennox has been charged with one count of murder in case YA095374. The felony complai...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Fresno man was convicted and sentenced to five years in state prison today for pimping a woman and trafficking a minor teenage girl in Costa Mesa. Marice Lavell Curry, 25, pleaded guilty to one felony count of human trafficking of a minor, one felony count of pandering a min...

A 46-year-old man pleaded guilty today to murdering three people and trying to kill another during a 2014 shooting rampage in Pasadena, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. John Izeal Smith entered his plea to two counts of first-degree murder and one count each of secondd...

A 27-year-old man was sentenced today to eight years and eight months in state prison for following casino patrons to their homes and robbing them, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Oct. 31, a jury found Dominick Blair Roberson (dob 6/30/89) of Paramount guilty of fi...

LOS ANGELES – A Riverside man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography, the latest Inland Empire man to receive a substantial sentence for a child pornography offense. Walter Klink, 42, was sentenced by United States District Judge Virginia A. Ph...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A gang member was resentenced to life without the possibility of parole (LWOP) in state prison for committing murder and attempted murder as a juvenile. Ignacio Ruiz Jr., 25, was found guilty by a jury on Aug. 3, 2010, of one felony count of special circumstances murder commit...

A 28-year-old man has been ordered to stand trial for allegedly attempting to gouge a Santa Monica police officer's eyes while resisting arrest, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Darryl Andrew McIntosh (dob 8/30/88) of Santa Monica faces one felony count each of a...