LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury yesterday named a Burbank teacher in a criminal indictment that accuses him of sexually exploiting a fifteen-year-old former student for purposes of producing child pornography images of the minor. Sean David Sigler, 53, of Burbank – who previously taught fift...

LOS ANGELES – A Riverside man who sold a powerful synthetic opioid very similar to fentanyl to a friend – who then suffered a fatal overdose from the drug – was sentenced today to 312 months in federal prison. Adam Scott Caward, 33, received the 26-year sentence from United States District Judg...

LOS ANGELES – A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Santa Barbara County man to 246 months' incarceration for distribution of child pornography. Christopher Robin Coates, 43, of Carpinteria, met minors in online chat rooms dedicated to youths seeking father figures and manipulated them into sen...