A federal judge sentenced Fernando Barroso Sr., 69, a former civilian employee of the United States Navy who was a senior procurement official for Naval Base Ventura County and who received $1.2 million in illegal kickbacks to 70 months in federal prison. Barroso pleaded guilty to one count of co...

            A jury found Yi-Chi Shih, 64, an electrical engineer, guilty of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), mail fraud, wire fraud, subscribing to a false tax return, making false statements to a government agency, and conspiracy to gain unauthorized...

            Israel returned Linda Morrow, 67, to the United States after Morrow was named in a 31-count federal grand jury indictment.  Israel determined that Morrow entered Israel  on a fraudulent Mexican passport. Linda Morrow and her husband, David Morrow, 74, were arrested in Israel. David Mo...

Fourteen burrito shaped methamphetamine packages landed Ricardo Renteria in federal prison for 180 months. On February 3, 2018, the police pulled over Renteria because he drove his white Chevrolet Tahoe  erratically and evasively. Renteria consented to a search of the vehicle and the police found...

            Nineteen year old Aquinas Kasbar pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of stealing a ring-tailed Lemur, an endangered species. He faces a year in federal prison and a $100,000 fine. On July 27, 2018, Kasbar broke into the Santa Ana Zoo after it had closed for the day. Using bolt cutte...

Dennis Blieden, 29, a former executive at StyleHaul Inc., a digital marketing company that represents “influencers” on YouTube and Instagram, has been arrested for embezzling $22 million from his employer and using the stolen money for buy-ins at professional poker tournaments, crypto-currency in...

A federal district court judge sentenced Anthony Paul De La Torriente, 30, of Simi Valley, a former cheerleading coach, to 78 months in federal prison for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman on a cruise ship bound from Long Beach to Ensenada, Mexico during the summer of 2015.   A federal jur...

            Wei Xu, 56, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection watch commander at the Long Beach Seaport pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for running an illegal gun-selling business, unlawfully possessing more than 40 machine guns and other prohibited firearms, failing to disclose ...

LOS ANGELES – A Sherman Oaks man has been arrested on federal narcotics trafficking charges related to the deaths of two people who suffered fentanyl overdoses at the same Woodland Hills residence.             Trent Michael Tomasovich, 28, a Sherman Oaks man was arrested on federal narcotics traf...

             A jury found a suburban Houston man, Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba,  guilty of 27 federal criminal charges for hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court computer system and then using it to send approximately 2 million malicious phishing emails. The jury found him guilty of conspiracy to com...