SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) Rapid DNA program quickly provided the identity of a serial burglar who committed two pharmacy burglaries in Irvine and Tustin within 30 minutes of each other. Rapid DNA also identified a woman who burned and vandalized a vac...

A 75-year-old man has been charged with the domestic violence killing of his wife of 35 years, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Deputy District Attorney David Berger said Thomas Foster (dob 2/11/42) faces one count of murder with handgun use allegations. Foster p...

A 21-year-old man pleaded not guilty today to attacking an officer at a fast-food restaurant Monday morning, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Donald Chinchilla (dob 4/4/96) has been charged with one count of deliberate, premediated, attempted murder of a peace officer ...

Sinaloa Cartel cell leader Damaso Lopez-Serrano aka “Mini Lic,” pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances for purpose of unlawful importation following his self-surrender to U.S. law enforcement authorities at the Calexico West, Mexico Port of Entry o...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that defendant Mark Feigin has pled to two misdemeanor charges involving harassing electronic communication to an Islamic center and attempts to dissuade a law enforcement officer from testifying against him. The defendant entered ...

Just before George Vasquez was scheduled to get out of prison, Los Angeles County prosecutors made a plea to the court: Don't let him free — he's too dangerous to live in public. While in his early 20s, Vasquez had lured young boys from his South L.A. neighborhood to a spot near an alleyway with ...

A 60-year-old man pleaded no contest today to stealing from his client's work-related civil settlement in 2014, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At Tuesday's court appearance, Mark Haddon of La Verne pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor counts in case KA116294: gran...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a $102 million settlement with BP Energy Company and affiliates (BP) over allegations that it intentionally overcharged the State of California for natural gas that the State purchased under three successive contracts from Ma...

LOS ANGELES – A Connecticut man was charged today in federal court with a felony computer hacking offense related to a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to over 250 Apple iCloud accounts, many of which belonged to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. George Garofano,...

Marchello Dsaun McCain, a convicted violent felon and the brother of Douglas McCain, the first known American who died fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), was sentenced in federal court today to 10 years in prison for his illegal possession of a cache of firearms and body a...