LOS ANGELES – A special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has been found guilty of four federal offenses related to assistance he provided to a Mexican national with a criminal record to re-enter the United States. Felix Cisneros ...

A 34-year-old audiologist has been charged with lewd acts upon two girls, ages 12 and 14, at Universal Studios Hollywood earlier this year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Kelly Kraetsch said Hershel Louis Korngut (dob 1/6/84) of Los Angeles f...

LOS ANGELES – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced today that the Attorney General's Office and the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) secured a default judgment against Luxy Accessory, Inc. (Luxy), a jewelry distributor based in Los Angeles, and its owner Hyun Sook Kim...

A man and woman dubbed the “Discount Bitcoin Bandits” have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from people who sought to buy the cryptocurrency, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Precious Lanay Fitzgerald (dob 6/29/90) was initially charged with four c...

A Mountain House, California man pleaded guilty today in Sacramento for trafficking in counterfeit sports apparel. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan of the FBI's Sacramento Field Office and Sheriff S...

LOS ANGELES – The lead defendant in a federal case against a sophisticated identity-theft ring that defrauded several victim financial institutions out of millions of dollars was sentenced on Monday to over six years in prison followed by five years of supervised release. Lei Chen, 51, of Pasad...

LOS ANGELES – The owner of a Canadian telemarketing operation was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of mail and wire fraud for having orchestrated a bogus telemarketing scheme that defrauded at least 60,000 victims of over $18 million dollars. After fighting extradition for over 10 years, M...

The U.S. Department of Justice today filed a civil action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the State of California, Governor of California Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr., and the California State Lands Commission, seeking a declaration that California Senate ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged today with soliciting another to commit rape after attempting to purchase a 4-year-old girl for sex through an online escort. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Nicolas Ryan Castillo, 29, Yorba Linda Charged on Ap...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued the following statement on the Department of Justice's new lawsuit against the State of California: “I regret the need to file yet another lawsuit against the state of California today. The Department of Justice is fighting every day to take illegal guns and ...