A former Lynwood city employee pleaded guilty today to embezzling more than $27,000 from an employees' union, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Eric Gonzalez, 35, entered his plea to one count of felony grand theft. He was immediately sentenced to two days in county jai...

Ten federal indictments unsealed today charge 55 defendants with crimes ranging from money laundering to heroin, methamphetamine and firearms trafficking in what officials have described as one of the most significant crackdowns in recent memory. The defendants, including prominent drug dealers a...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Washington felon was convicted yesterday of trafficking a woman and pimping her by using a firearm to force her to solicit commercial sex. Timogen Anthony Simpson, 27, Kent, Washington, was found guilty by a jury of two felony counts each of pimping and pandering; one felony...