A transient was charged today with trespassing onto a property owned, but not currently occupied, by singer Taylor Swift, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Justin Christoph Lilly (dob 11/3/94) faces one misdemeanor count of trespassing and refusing to leave private prop...

A transient has pleaded no contest to trespassing onto a property owned, but not currently occupied, by singer Taylor Swift, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Justin Christoph Lilly (dob 11/3/94) entered the plea yesterday to one misdemeanor count of trespassing and ref...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced that defendant Carl Ferrer, Chief Executive Officer of online sex advertising website Backpage.com, has pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy and three counts of money laundering. The defendant entered the guilty plea in Sa...

LOS ANGELES – As the tax filing season comes to an end, federal authorities are reminding members of the public of their obligation to timely file accurate tax documents – and that evading taxes or defrauding the Internal Revenue Service can led to substantial fines, penalties and prison sentenc...

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury this afternoon returned an indictment that charges two men in a scheme to rob an undercover agent with the United States Secret Service at gunpoint under the pretense of selling the law enforcement officer counterfeit money. Richard Taron Henderson, aka “Profi...

A 69-year-old general practitioner in Encino was sentenced today to one year in county jail and three years of formal probation for sexually assaulting five of his female patients during medical visits, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Richard ...

A man was convicted today of murder and attempted murder in two separate attacks in South Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. A jury found Floyd Odell (dob 8/29/66) of Los Angeles guilty of one count of murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts of ass...

A South Los Angeles woman has been charged in a spree of convenience store robberies, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Chaney Armstrong (dob 9/19/71) was charged late yesterday afternoon with 11 felony counts of second degree robbery and six felony counts of assault wi...

A  Salinas, California, resident pleaded guilty today to conspiring to file fraudulent claims for income tax refunds, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department's Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse for the Northern District ...

An 18-year-old man pleaded no contest today to killing a pet parrot late last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Edward Cervantes pleaded no contest to one felony count of animal cruelty in case NA108127. Following the plea, Los Angeles...