SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced that California Department of Justice special agents have arrested a Sacramento woman for her alleged involvement in an international sex trafficking ring. Yun Escamilla was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on five coun...

A jury has convicted three men in the 2013 slaying of a former Garfield High School football player, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Jonathon Joseph Gonzalez, 30, Roque Solis, 32, and Anthony Aaron Gabriel, 27, all of Los Angeles, were each convicted yesterday o...

A 28-year-old woman has been charged with stealing a car and crashing the vehicle on the 210 Freeway, leading to the death of one man and injuries to others, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Jan. 30, Nicole Danielle Thibault (dob 5/15/89) of Santa Clarita was charge...

The founder and chief executive officer of a now-defunct Silicon Valley technology company start-up known publicly as WrkRiot pleaded guilty today for defrauding several of his company's former employees by luring them to join his company based on false and misleading statements about his educati...

California state law dictates that information about juvenile court proceedings and records are confidential and shall not be made public because the rehabilitation and protection of minors outweighs the public's right to know. However, California Welfare and Institutions Code sections 676 (a) an...

LOS ANGELES — A wrongful death lawsuit filed against Jim Carrey by thehusband and mother of his ex-girlfriend has been dismissed. The suit was dismissed on January 25 in Los Angeles Superior Court. Mark Burton and Brigid Sweetman had sued the actor, claiming he provided the prescription drugs Cat...

A 34-year-old woman pleaded no contest today to stabbing her boyfriend nearly two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Yvonne Marie Pina of Long Beach pleaded no contest to one count of voluntary manslaughter in case NA103701. The de...

A 31-year-old Long Beach man has been found guilty of kidnapping two teenage girls and raping a 20- year-old woman in assaults spanning a one-month period, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for about a day before returning guilty verdicts late yesterd...

LOS ANGELES – A Montecito resident has been arrested pursuant to a federal grand jury indictment that accuses him of running two fraudulent investment schemes and violating a court order prohibiting him from selling securities. Efstratios “Elias” Argyropoulos, 71, was arrested at his office in ...

Two men and a woman were charged today with shooting two people with a paintball gun, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Lynn Emerson Johnson III (dob 5/10/1997) of Hawthorne, Tyler James Walters (dob 7/15/1997) of Torrance, and Gabriella Lorraine Semana (dob 9/17/1999) ...