The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) will challenge the passport identifier recently revealed by the U.S. State Department. The challenge is expected to be filed in a federal district court within the next 90 days. “We have begun the necessary process of identifying a strategy...

RIVERSIDE, California – Adelanto City Councilmember Jermaine Wright is expected to make his first court appearance this afternoon after being arrested yesterday on federal charges that allege he took a $10,000 cash bribe and that he hired a man to burn down his restaurant to collect insurance pr...

LOS ANGELES – The owner of a business that operated parking lots was arrested this morning after being charged with bilking the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs out of more than $11 million that should have been paid in relation to a contract to operate parking facilities on the VA's Los Ang...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A woman is scheduled to be arraigned for lying under oath to protect her boyfriend, who continually sexually abused and raped a 13-year-old minor in her care. Defendant ...

Decades into a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole, Craig Coley continued to insist he was innocent. The former restaurant night manager had fought unsuccessfully for years to overturn a conviction for a grisly double murder that had shocked Simi Valley in 1978. But when police...

A California resident was sentenced to 54 months in prison today for conspiring to file false claims for tax refunds, submitting false claims for tax refunds, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department...

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that it has obtained an additional $5.4 million for servicemembers whose vehicles were unlawfully repossessed by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in violation of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA). The bank, which does business under the name Wel...

LOS ANGELES – A former resident of Aliso Viejo who submitted fraudulent bills to insurance companies that sought well over $8 million for tests and services that were never performed was sentenced today to 97 months in federal prison. Michael Mirando, 40, who currently resides in Portland, Oregon...

LOS ANGELES – Geo Medical Co., Ltd., a contact lens manufacturer based in the Republic of Korea that claims to be the “leading brand of circle lenses,” has been charged in federal court with illegally bringing contact lenses into the United States by dramatically undervaluing shipments in documen...

LOS ANGELES – A concert promoter who operated in Dallas, Texas and West Hollywood pleaded guilty this morning to a federal fraud charge for defrauding investors, promoters and performers who invested in concerts and World Wrestling Entertainment events. Gabriel Martin Reed, 46, a former Malibu ...