Antonio Mariot Wilson, a.k.a. “Dr. Tony Mariot” and “Brice Carrington,” 57, a Santa Monica man will to plead guilty to a federal fraud charge for a romance scam in which he deceived women he met online and elsewhere into investing tens of thousands of dollars into his sham sound design and softwa...

    A federal court ordered a California company to stop distributing unapproved hand sanitizer products as new drugs. Innovative BioDefense Inc., of Lake Forest, California and company CEO Colette Cozean and distributor Hotan Barough must stop distributing “Zylast” hand sanitizer products until ...

            A San Bernardino County man, Chaunta A. Bashir, a.k.a. “taytheonly,” 26, of Chino, will plead guilty to a federal criminal charge that he produced dozens of sexually explicit images and videos of children, including of one victim who was 3 years old at the time. In his plea agreement,...

            The feds arrested Briana Matla, 20, a former Colton resident, a United States citizen who now resides in Mexico and her boyfriend, Sanchez, on a federal criminal complaint alleging they collected ransom money as part of a kidnapping conspiracy where California residents were kidnapped...

A federal judge sentenced Minas Matosyan, a.k.a. “Maserati Mike,” 40, of Encino to 108 months in federal prison for leading a conspiracy to distribute powerful prescription opioids via sham medical clinics that hired corrupt doctors who wrote fraudulent prescriptions to black market customers.   ...

             Angela Gillespie-Shelton, a.k.a. “Boss Lady” and “Angotti”, 54, of Houston, Texas woman who helped lead an interstate narcotics trafficking ring pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges arising out of an opioid buy-back scheme in which a doctor at a Los Angeles clinic prescri...

            The feds arrested William Sadleir, 66, formerly of Aviron Pictures, on federal fraud charges that allege he applied for $1.7 million in loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), falsely certified that the money would be used to finance the operations of other Aviron entities,...

           Jesse Beltran, 35, who had a prior state court conviction for child sex abuse pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography.  In 2008, Beltran was convicted of child molestation and spent eight years in the California state prison. While still on parole, in May 2019, t...