LOS ANGELES – A Burbank man who operated a string of allegedly sham medical clinics – and who already faces federal charges of using the clinics to orchestrate a massive narcotics scheme – was arrested today on new charges that he unlawfully procured United States citizenship. Armen Simonyan, 44,...

LOS ANGELES – Capping a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Strike Force, authorities this morning arrested 20 defendants named in a series of indictments that allege the smuggling of large quantities of narcotics from Mexico on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel. Those arrested this morning ar...

LOS ANGELES – A man who was already serving a 25-year sentence for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization was sentenced today to serve an additional 20-year prison term for trying to kill the warden of the federal prison where he was housed. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 36, was sen...

SANTA ANA, California – A Walnut man has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to export U.S.-origin tactical gear to Syria in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and Syria Sanctions Rasheed Al Jijakli, 57, a Syrian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty Monday ...

RIVERSIDE, California – A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was arrested this morning on federal civil rights charges that allege he sexually assaulted one woman and twice raped another woman after abusing his official posi...

A former Los Angeles police officer was sentenced today to two years in state prison after pleading no contest to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Robert Cain (dob 4/17/86) entered his plea to one felony count each of o...

LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities have arrested 12 defendants on federal narcotics and fraud charges stemming from an investigation into the Puente 13 street gang. Those arrested last night and this morning are among 17 defendants named in a series of indictments returned by a federal grand jury ...

A jury today found two men guilty of killing a 67-year-old woman a year ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Devon T. White, 21, of Lynwood, and James Wesley Trotter aka Man-Man, 22, of Long Beach, were both found guilty of one count each of murder with a special circ...

SANTA ANA, California – A Dana Point man has been charged in a recently unsealed indictment with participating in a conspiracy to procure and illegally ship export-controlled computer servers to Iran. Johnny Paul Tourino, 64, was named in a 23-count grand jury indictment filed on March 7 and unse...

LOS ANGELES – A Thousand Oaks man who fraudulently obtained more than $11 million in loans he used to purchase a gas station and two car washes was sentenced today to nearly five years in federal prison. Mohsen Hass, 60, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by United States District Judge Dale S....