SANTA ANA, Calif. – A woman was charged yesterday with fatal hit-and-run and insurance fraud after leaving the victim at the scene and falsely reporting the damage as vandalism to her insurance company and police. Belen Sicairos, 23, Santa Ana, was charged on Feb. 15, 2017, with one felony count ...

A 20-year-old man was sentenced today to 39 years and eight months in state prison for extorting young girls for nude photos, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Cesar Mauricio Estrada-Davila, aka Cesar Estrada, of Rosemead, pleaded no contest on Feb. 15 to a total of 38 ...

A Los Angeles, California man pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally engaging in the business of importing tobacco products, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker for the Central District of...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division One reversed a trial judge's illegal 10 year sentence for a man who sodomized a toddler and ordered the judge to impose the mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years to life in state prison and mandatory lifetime sex offend...

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to illegally engaging in the business of importing tobacco products. Zhi Xiong Chen, 56, of Chinatown, pleaded guilty yesterday to the felony offense and admitted that for nearly five years, despite not holding a permit to import tobacco produc...

A 35-year-old man was charged today with the special circumstance murders of two men at a social club in Chinatown, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Vinh Dao (dob 2/5/80) faces two counts of murder with the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders and an all...

A 47-year-old man was sentenced today to 181 years to life in state prison for murdering three people and trying to kill another during a 2014 shooting rampage in Pasadena, the District Attorney's Office announced. John Izeal Smith pleaded guilty in December to two counts of first-degree murder a...

LOS ANGELES – A convicted con man who defrauded a North Carolina man out of more than $8.7 million and was sentenced to nine years in federal prison has been sentenced to another six months in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release by traveling to Africa without permission in r...

A Lancaster man has been sentenced to six years in jail for secretly recording women at restaurant bathrooms in Palmdale and Lancaster, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Jesus Calvario, 22, pleaded no contest yesterday to 18 misdemeanor counts: 14 counts of unauth...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF) is seeking potential additional victims of a brothel ringleader charged today with pandering 29 women to commit prostitution at high-end apartments in Irvine. Fadi Boulos Chaiban, 53, Ladera Ranch, is charged with 29 felo...