SANTA ANA, California – Authorities with the Orange County Violent Gang Task Force this morning arrested nine defendants on federal narcotics and firearms charges stemming from an investigation into gang activity in Santa Ana and surrounding communities. The arrests are the result of 10 federal i...

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today indicted five men in four countries on federal charges alleging they distributed or offered for sale stolen digital versions of hundreds of motion pictures and television shows – including “Fifty Shades of Grey,” “The Expendables 3” and “The Walking Dead” ...

*Case Was Re-Tried Following Reversal on Appeal SANTA ANA, Calif. – A now-retired Lieutenant for the California Highway Patrol was convicted today of attempting to commit unlawful sexual acts with a fictitious 13-year-old girl, whom he believed was real, after meeting the girl online and engaging...

CORRECTION: Corrects name of investigating agency. A tennis broadcaster and former tennis pro has been charged with assaulting a man with whom is he acquainted, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Justin Gimelstob (dob 1/26/77) of Los Angeles faces one felony count of bat...

            SANTA ANA, California – A Laguna Beach attorney has admitted in court documents that she submitted dozens of fraudulent visa petitions to federal immigration authorities and failed to report the money generated by her fraud to the Internal Revenue Service.             In a plea agreem...

Prosecutors filed charges today against a transient who allegedly pushed a pedestrian in front of a truck and attacked two other people in separate incidents this week in downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Garrett Joseph Boldt (dob 1/1/77) was charg...

An East Los Angeles woman was sentenced today to nine years in county jail for defrauding more than 30 people through her home-based immigration services business, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David M. Horwitz also ordered Da...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – DNA evidence of the 1979 rape and murder of Joan Anderson, a wife and mother, has been confirmed to be that of convicted murderer William Evins, who pleaded guilty to the murder in 1985. Evins was sentenced on Sept. 25, 1985, to 15 years to life in state prison after he pleade...

            LOS ANGELES – A Hollywood man who allegedly sold fentanyl to buyers he met on Craigslist was indicted today on federal charges of selling the powerful synthetic opioid to a customer who suffered a fatal overdose. Andrew Madi, 25, was charged by a federal grand jury with one count of d...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted today of murdering his business partner in their San Juan Capistrano office to gain control of the victim's shares of the company. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Edward Younghoon Shin, 41, Irvine Found guilt...