A Laguna Niguel girls softball parent volunteer and former member of the University of California, Irvine Board of Directors was sentenced to 170 years to life today for molesting three young girls at his home. On October 15, 2019, a jury convicted Glen Thomas Kauffman, 55, of Laguna Niguel of si...

A federal judge sentenced spinal surgeon Dr. Daniel Capen, 70, of Manhattan Beach, to 30 months in federal prison for participating in a long-running health care fraud scheme in which he received at least $5 million in kickbacks for performing hundreds of spinal surgeries. The overall scheme resu...

           A jury found Christopher Myung Kim, 29 A former employee of a marijuana distribution warehouse guilty of federal criminal charges that he conspired with a corrupt Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy to rob his former employer of $2 million dollars' worth of marijuana and cas...

            A federal grand jury has indicted two men in a scheme to obtain lawful permanent resident status for South Korean nationals by submitting fraudulent visa applications that falsely claimed American businesses wanted to hire skilled foreign workers.  The indictment alleges that the defe...

A jury convicted a gang member, Osiris Lenin Garfias Pedraza, 23 of first-degree murder in the 2017 killing of Jonathan Hernandez, 22, who had ties to a rival Anaheim gang.  Garfias Pedraza now faces a minimum sentence of life without the possibility of parole.  Garfias Pedraza was in one of thre...

            Three Saudi nationals have been charged in two separate indictments for allegedly violating federal export laws by purchasing more than $100,000 in weapons parts in the United States while on student visas and then smuggling the parts to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All three defendan...

A judge sentenced a West Hollywood man, Jeffrey Craig Yohai, 37, to 110 months in federal prison for defrauding investors, lenders, friends and family members out of about $6.7 million, via a series of scams he ran while out on bond after pleading guilty in a prior federal case. Yohai pleaded gui...

            A jury found two Gardena Police officers guilty federal criminal charges for scheming to purchase “off-roster” firearms not available to the general public and then illegally reselling the firearms for profit.   The jury found Carlos Miguel Fernandez, 44, of Norwalk, and Edward Yasush...

A federal district court judge sentenced Anthony Wade Evans, a.k.a. “Devine Evans,” 45,  a Grammy Award-winning music producer to 24 months in federal prison for fraudulently using his clients' credit card information to purchase services for his wedding, as well as airline fares and hotel reserv...

            Timothy Dalton Vaughn, 21, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina,  pleaded guilty to federal charges of making bogus threats of shootings and bombings to schools in the United Kingdom and the United States, including numerous schools in Southern California. He also          admitted making...