LOS ANGELES – A La Crescenta man was sentenced today to nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges stemming from two schemes – one that bilked a string of payroll companies, and a second involving fraudulent bills sent to entities ranging from small businesses to...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A homeless man living on the Santa Ana River Trail (SART) in Orange was charged yesterday with possessing two firearms and two boxes of ammunition. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Jeffrey Richard Lundell, 47, Santa Ana Charged y...

Fraud is a Crime: Spotting Scams that Target Vulnerable Seniors Although online scams are often trivialized, in fact, online scamming is fraud according to the FBI. Fraud can either violate civil or criminal law, depending on the situation and your state. Sadly, seniors are often the targets of o...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) Rapid DNA program stopped a serial thief after blood found at a crime scene connected the defendant to his profile in the Local DNA Database. The defendant is also charged with multiple Crime-Bail-Crime enhancements for theft...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Two men from Los Angeles County were charged today with pimping and pandering a 15-year-old runaway girl in Orange County. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Brandon Lamar Aaron, 29, Hawthorne Felony Human trafficki...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A felon from Oakland was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in state prison today for human trafficking, pimping, and pandering two teenagers in Alameda County and Orange County. Defendant Charges Sentence Dartelli Marquece Golston, 23, Oakland ...

A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, California, charging him with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and distribution of information re...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged with arson and assaulting a peace officer after throwing flaming towels at an Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) substation in Stanton and ramming into an OCSD patrol vehicle. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to life in state prison without the possibility of parole today for kidnapping, forcibly raping, and sodomizing a 14-year-old girl and attempting to kidnap three other victims ages 11 to 16 with the intent to commit sex offenses. Defendant Char...

A Palmdale man entered a no contest plea today for the death of his girlfriend after she jumped out of a moving vehicle during a domestic violence attack, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Illions said Bryan McKim, 58, entered the plea t...