SANTA ANA, Calif. – A music producer was arraigned today for pimping and pandering two women in an Anaheim motel. Brandon Christopher Ramsay, 24, Granada Hills, also known as “Ramsay Tha Great,” was charged today with two felony counts of pimping and two felony counts of pandering by procuring. I...

An El Cerrito, California man pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft and conspiring to steal government funds, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch for the Northern District of ...

RIVERSIDE, California – Enrique Marquez Jr. – a longtime friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in the San Bernardino terrorist attack – has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with Farook in 2011 and 2012 to provide material support to terrorists. Marquez, 25, of Riverside, entered in...

A 57-year-old man convicted of sexually abusing a teenager over a span of seven months was sentenced today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Jan. 11, Joseph Alan Kikuchi of Monterey Park pleaded no contest to all counts in case GA097357 in an open plea to the court:...

LOS ANGELES – A Long Beach woman has pleaded guilty to federal offenses for illegally shipping tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition to the Philippines. Marlou Mendoz, 61, pleaded guilty on Monday in United States District Court to three counts of failing to provide the required written not...

A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy pleaded no contest today to killing a man in Sylmar more than four years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Francisco Gamez II, 45, entered his plea to one count each of second-degree murder and attempted murder. He also ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) deputy was convicted and sentenced to six months in Orange County jail and three years informal probation today on charges for committing insurance fraud by failing to disclose his true physical abilities and activities to his...

A 70-year-old Long Beach woman was sentenced today for concealing her ex-husband's income to help him avoid paying state taxes, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Linda Ann Knowlton was sentenced to formal probation for three years and ordered to pay $598,000 in restitut...

SACRAMENTO – Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a letter in the California Supreme Court today, urging it to grant review in People ex rel. Pierson v. Superior Court. In Pierson, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled unconstitutional a 2015 law that requires prosecutors to use public prelim...

LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced that Oswaldo Rafael Cabrera, the owner and operator of a Los Angeles-based business known as the Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional (CLI), was sentenced to five years and two months in state prison after pleading guilty to felony ...