SANTA ANA, California – The former deputy treasurer for the City of Compton was sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison on charges stemming from his embezzlement of more than $3.7 million of city funds over the course of six years. Salvador Galvan, 47, of La Mirada, was sentenced by...

SANTA ANA – A pimp, known by the moniker “Classified,” who recruited approximately 20 women and girls through a social media website and advertised their services as prostitutes in an online publication, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for sex trafficking of a child by force, fraud...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A “hard money” lender was sentenced today to 34 years and four months in state prison for embezzling over $3.2 million from investors in a Ponzi real estate-mortgage investment fraud scheme. Defendant Charges Sentence Thomas Franklin Tarbutton, 58,...