Thomas H. Peters, 55, the former head of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Civil Litigation Branch from February 2014 to March 2019, will plead guilty to a federal charge for threatening to fire a plaintiffs' attorney from a lucrative special counsel job with the city unless the attorney paid a...

           Geoffrey Eldridge Hull, a Baldwin Hills man pleaded guilty to wire fraud.  He conned people all over the U.S. into giving him their high-end and exotic cars with bogus promises he would find other people to take over their car leases. From April 2016 to November 2019, Hull marketed him...

    A federal judge sentenced Sam Sarkis Solakyan, 40, the CEO of several Southern California-based medical imaging companies, to 60 months in federal prison for running a scheme that submitted more than $250 million in fraudulent claims through the California Workers' Compensation System for med...

             The feds arrested Richard Royden Chamberlin, 53, who allegedly fired BB guns at the Planned Parenthood facility in Pasadena several times. The feds charged him with being an ex-felon with the illegal possession of a .22-caliber handgun. Chamberlin allegedly shot at Planned Parent fac...