A federal judge sentenced  Vardges Markosyan, 47, of North Hollywood, to 108 months in federal prison for smuggling more than 80 pounds of cocaine – concealed and suspended in grease – in household products that were mailed to Australia. Markosyan – aka “David Petrosov,” “Giani Oncho,” and “L...

FBI agents this morning arrested a Santa Monica man on federal charges stemming from a series of distributed denial-of-service – or DDoS – attacks on a website for a candidate who was campaigning for a California congressional seat. The feds arrested Arthur Jan Dam, 32 based on a criminal complai...