Carlos Miguel Fernandez, 44, of Norwalk, a former Gardena Police officer got 33 months in federal prison for scheming to purchase “off-roster” firearms not available to the general public and then illegally reselling the firearms for profit. A jury found Fernandez guilty of conspirac...

A federal judge sented Brandon Michael Fleury, 22, of Santa Ana, California, to 66 months in federal prison for cyberstalking and sending a kidnapping threat to families of victims of a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Fleury used thirteen different Instagram accounts, using aliases including ...

            A federal judge sentenced Jose Loza, a Mexican Mafia member and “shotcaller” of the Santa Fe Springs and Whittier-based Canta Ranas street gang was sentenced today to life plus an additional 30 years in federal prison for leading the wide-ranging criminal enterprise and for murdering ...

A federal judge sentenced Anna Vishnevsky, 52, of Valley Village, the former owner of a Studio City medical clinic, to 37months in federal prison for submitting  more than $11.5 million in bills to health care benefit programs for unnecessary – and sometimes nonexistent – sleep studies, primarily...

            A federal judge sentenced  Clifford Kirstein, 29, of Montreal, a Canadian telemarketer, to 41 months in federal prison for conning American senior citizens by impersonating their grandchildren over the telephone and asking for financial help to get the purportedly distressed relatives...

Mitchell Englander, 49, of Santa Monica, a former Los Angeles city councilman, surrendered to FBI agents this morning to face criminal charges that he obstructed an investigation into him accepting cash, female escort services, hotel rooms and expensive meals from a businessman during trips to La...

A federal judge sentenced Francisco Alvarado Felix, 33, of Hesperia, a convicted felon who brought an assault rifle into a restaurant and brandished it at the manager after employees refused to serve him an alcoholic beverage to 120 months in federal prison.             Felix and a friend visited...

       A federal judge sentenced Christopher Lazenby, 29, of Homeland in Riverside County man  to 120 months in federal prison for running a narcotics distribution outfit that, in part, stole at least nine doctors' DEA numbers and dates of birth that he used to obtain oxycodone and other prescrip...

A federal judge sentenced Edgar Limon, 39a A Mexican National who was charged in the first major narcotics trafficking indictment resulting from an investigation by the Los Angeles Strike Force to 63 months in federal prison for his role in an international narcotics network that transported 21 p...

In response to concerns regarding the Coronavirus/COVID-19, and in light of local, state and federal emergency declarations based upon the virus, Presiding Judge Kevin C. Brazile of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, announced today the following recommendations to all judge...