SANTA ANA, California – The owner and operator of Mulder Financial Consulting – a financial services company that provided accounting, tax and bookkeeping services – pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal charges for embezzling more than $1.5 million from her clients. Elizabeth Jane Mulder, w...

LOS ANGELES – A Fresno man was arrested this morning on a federal criminal charge of copyright infringement that alleges he posted the movie “Deadpool” to his Facebook page. As a result of the illegal upload, more than 5 million people were able to view the film copyrighted by the Twentieth Cen...

WASHINGTON – A federal jury convicted a Manhattan Beach resident today of wire fraud and filing false tax returns, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department's Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Alana W. Robinson for the Southern District o...

SANTA ANA, California – A Westminster man has been sentenced to over 8 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography. Peter Henry Herz, 61, yesterday received a 97-month sentence from United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney. Following the completion of his prison term, Herz...

A swimming coach was sentenced today to six years in state prison after pleading no contest to sexually assaulting a girl at a Commerce aquatic center, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Steven Matthew Garcia, 28, entered his plea to one felony count of lewd act upon a c...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced today that Bank of America, N.A., will pay nearly $2 million to settle a civil lawsuit alleging the company took too long to inform customers that their phone calls were being recorded. The Charlotte-based bank reached a settlement with ...

A man was charged today with setting a fire at an apartment complex that was being built in Hollywood, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Benicio Garcia (dob 10/23/96) was charged in case BA458250 with two counts each of arson of an inhabited structure and arson of a str...

A 23-year-old homeless man was charged today with the murder of a man near the 101 Freeway and Hollywood Boulevard earlier this week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Alex Conn Vasquez (dob 3/8/94) faces one count of murder with the special circumstance allegation of m...

A Pittsburg, California man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft of government money and wire fraud, 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 California. A...

A 24-year-old man was charged today with breaking into his grandfather's Pomona home and severely beating the elderly man, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Sammeon Christian Waller (dob 10/16/92) has been charged with two felony counts in case KA115541: elder abuse and...