Matsuo Electric Co. Limited and one of its executives, Satoshi Okubo, have agreed to plead guilty for their roles in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. In charges file...

Hugh Robinson, a San Pablo, California resident, was sentenced yesterday to serve ­­144 months in prison for filing tax returns using the identities of deceased individuals and stealing social security and refund checks destined for other individuals, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney Ge...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Los Angeles felon was sentenced to 16 years in state prison yesterday for pimping and threatening victims, then leading police on a foot pursuit through back yards in Stanton after crashing his car. Delane Williams, 42, Sun Valley, pleaded guilty on Feb. 6, 2017, to one felo...

LOS ANGELES – A San Bernardino County man who filed tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that led to nearly $400,000 in fraudulent tax refunds being issued has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison. John Metters, 53, of Fontana, was sentenced yesterday by United States District...

SANTA ANA, California – A Corona woman who embezzled more than $500,000 from her employer, an Irvine-based property management company, has been sentenced to serve 27 months in federal prison. Kristina Hosea, 46, of Corona, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Cormac J. Carne...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A parole agent was convicted and sentenced today for exchanging embezzled California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) funds for narcotics prescribed to a parolee. Scott Patric Keblis, 50, Chino, pleaded guilty to one felony count of embezzlement by a public ...

A federal jury convicted Thomas Joyce for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in Contra Costa County, California, the Department of Justice announced today. After a week-long trial before honorable Chief Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton in Oakland, Calif...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former NBA star was convicted today of driving the wrong way on the freeway and providing false information to the police. Dennis Keith Rodman, 55, Newport Beach, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of driving a motor vehicle across a dividing section, one misdemeanor co...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A registered sex offender was sentenced to receive the death penalty today for the special-circumstances murder of four women after kidnapping the victims. Steven Dean Gordon, 48, Anaheim, was indicted by the grand jury on Oct. 2, 2014. He was found guilty by a jury on Dec. 15...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County Grand Jury unsealed three additional indictments today on welfare fraud and perjury charges for three women. Shayla Frazier, 40, Aliso Viejo, was indicted Aug. 24, 2016, by the Orange County Grand Jury on one felony count of aid by misrepresentation over $950...

LOS ANGELES – A Fullerton return preparer has pleaded guilty in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service through the filing of bogus returns claiming tax refunds. Michael Raymond Martinez, 48, of Fullerton, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon before United States District Judge Beverly Rei...

A 44-year-old woman was sentenced today to 16 years to life in state prison for fatally stabbing her mother at a senior living facility, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Athina Sumi Rivera of Los Angeles pleaded guilty to one count of secon...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF) is seeking potential additional victims of a brothel ringleader charged today with pandering 29 women to commit prostitution at high-end apartments in Irvine. Fadi Boulos Chaiban, 53, Ladera Ranch, is charged with 29 felo...

A Lancaster man has been sentenced to six years in jail for secretly recording women at restaurant bathrooms in Palmdale and Lancaster, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Jesus Calvario, 22, pleaded no contest yesterday to 18 misdemeanor counts: 14 counts of unauth...

LOS ANGELES – A convicted con man who defrauded a North Carolina man out of more than $8.7 million and was sentenced to nine years in federal prison has been sentenced to another six months in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release by traveling to Africa without permission in r...

A 47-year-old man was sentenced today to 181 years to life in state prison for murdering three people and trying to kill another during a 2014 shooting rampage in Pasadena, the District Attorney's Office announced. John Izeal Smith pleaded guilty in December to two counts of first-degree murder a...

A 35-year-old man was charged today with the special circumstance murders of two men at a social club in Chinatown, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Vinh Dao (dob 2/5/80) faces two counts of murder with the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders and an all...

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to illegally engaging in the business of importing tobacco products. Zhi Xiong Chen, 56, of Chinatown, pleaded guilty yesterday to the felony offense and admitted that for nearly five years, despite not holding a permit to import tobacco produc...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division One reversed a trial judge's illegal 10 year sentence for a man who sodomized a toddler and ordered the judge to impose the mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years to life in state prison and mandatory lifetime sex offend...

A Los Angeles, California man pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally engaging in the business of importing tobacco products, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker for the Central District of...

A 27-year-old man was sentenced today to 26 years to life in state prison for stabbing a man to death on the Red Line subway train three years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Jacob Yim said Angelo Correa of North Hollywood was found guilt...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to face trial on Monday for the shooting-murder of his sister's boyfriend before fleeing to Mexico. Adan Rodriguez Leon, 34, Santa Ana, was charged on April 13, 2015, with one felony count of murder and a sentencing enhancement for personal discharge of a fi...

A 37-year-old man was sentenced today to two years in state prison for leaving a special needs student in a parked bus for hours, which led to the student's death, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Jan. 6, Armando Abel Ramirez of Rialto pleaded guilty to one felony c...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Two Colorado men were sentenced to five and eight years in state prison today for human trafficking, pimping, and pandering a 17-year-old girl. Jahsee Elan Brewster, 33, Denver, Colorado, and Clifton Haralson, 34, Colorado, were found guilty by a jury on Nov. 16, 2016, of one ...

FULLERTON, Calif. – A man was sentenced to four years in state prison today for manufacturing an explosive device in his mobile home in Anaheim while streaming on Facebook Live. Jeff Edward Reece, 34, pleaded guilty to one felony count of possession of an explosive and one felony count of attempt...