A 40-year-old man was sentenced today to 47 years and four months in state prison for trafficking a teenager and sexually abusing her, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On April 20, a jury found Jeffrey Floyd Beadle (dob 6/20/77) guilty of 11 felony counts in case NA105...

Visalia Police Det. Bill McGowen sat in the garage of the single-story home on West Kaweah Avenue and waited for the man who had stalked these streets for more than a year. That night in December 1975, McGowen watched as a shadowy figure prowled between the home he was hiding in and the house nex...

LOS ANGELES – A now-defunct debt collection company that was based in Culver City was sentenced today for its role in a scheme that paid bribes to a public official in Arizona in exchange for confidential information that helped the company collect nearly $1 million in outstanding debts. Profes...

A Valencia couple have been charged in connection with an attempted bank robbery and the man is charged with a series of other bank robberies, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. James Lee Hamill (dob 2/4/91) and Samantha Yaworski (dob 8/23/95) each face one felony count ...

A retired Los Angeles police officer charged with workers' compensation fraud and related felonies is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Terry Johns (dob 2/25/62) of Corona faces three counts each of workers' compensation insurance fra...

LOS ANGELES – A Romanian computer hacker who orchestrated a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the European servers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft was sentenced today to one year in federal prison. Calin Mateias, 38, of Romania, wa...

LOS ANGELES – A Korean national who was living in the United States as an illegal alien has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for participating in a scheme to defraud the United States by evading millions of dollars in federal excise taxes due on 143 million cigarettes. Un Hag Baeg,...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged with a hate crime for making white supremacist comments and throwing a cup at a Middle Eastern smoke shop manager in Anaheim. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Robert Kevin Pressler, 54, transient Charged on May ...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the California Department of Consumer Affairs today announced new charges against Jeremy Daniel Griffin of West Hollywood. He faces 11 felony charges for impersonating a registered nurse in Los Angeles County after having pled no contest...

The United States filed civil complaints in Florida and California to enjoin two companies that purport to offer stem cell treatments, the Justice Department announced today. The first complaint, filed May 9, 2018, in the Southern District of Florida, is against US Stem Cell Clinic LLC, of Sunris...