ONTARIO >> An Ontario woman wanted for not paying restitution on a 1998 welfare fraud conviction came out of hiding when she tried to have her record vacated. Raquel Serrano was convicted of defrauding welfare by using a false Social Security number to collect approximately $40,000 in benefits wh...

(CNS) – A half-dozen former tenants of a Hollywood neighborhood are suing Airbnb, alleging the online lodging service aided their landlords in ending their tenancies, then re-renting their residences in violation of a municipal ordinance. Dialmar Castanera, Eric Thevenot, Brandy Menefee, Kristen ...

Authorities say a deputy with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department has been arrested on suspicion of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a teenage girl participating in the department's youth Explorer program. The department says in a statement Deputy David Israel Ceballos was arres...

(CNS) – So who's the prankster who altered the famed Hollywood sign on New Year's morning to make it read “Hollyweed”? Indications Tuesday were pointing toward a local artist who goes by the moniker “Jesus Hands,” a name that was scrawled on one of the black tarps used to alter the sign. In an in...

This year the state legislature sent Gov. Jerry Brown 1,059 pieces of legislation. THE BILL BREAKDOWN • 898: bills the governor signed into law • 159: bills the governor vetoed • 2: bills that become law without the governor signing them Here is a sampling of other new laws that Californians will...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA), as part of the California Food, Drug, and Medical Device Task Force, comprised of 10 district attorneys' offices including Santa Clara, Alameda, Sonoma, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Santa Cruz, Shasta, and Solano Counties, announc...

An El Cajon, California tax return preparer pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, to three counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A speeding driver was convicted today of killing one woman and injuring another after running a red light and crashing into them in a crosswalk, fleeing the scene, and leading police on a high-speed chase. Caroline Sujin Kim, 23, Hacienda Heights, pleaded guilty to one felony ...

A 28-year-old man has been ordered to stand trial for allegedly attempting to gouge a Santa Monica police officer's eyes while resisting arrest, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Darryl Andrew McIntosh (dob 8/30/88) of Santa Monica faces one felony count each of a...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A gang member was resentenced to life without the possibility of parole (LWOP) in state prison for committing murder and attempted murder as a juvenile. Ignacio Ruiz Jr., 25, was found guilty by a jury on Aug. 3, 2010, of one felony count of special circumstances murder commit...

LOS ANGELES – A Riverside man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography, the latest Inland Empire man to receive a substantial sentence for a child pornography offense. Walter Klink, 42, was sentenced by United States District Judge Virginia A. Ph...

A 27-year-old man was sentenced today to eight years and eight months in state prison for following casino patrons to their homes and robbing them, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Oct. 31, a jury found Dominick Blair Roberson (dob 6/30/89) of Paramount guilty of fi...

A 46-year-old man pleaded guilty today to murdering three people and trying to kill another during a 2014 shooting rampage in Pasadena, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. John Izeal Smith entered his plea to two counts of first-degree murder and one count each of secondd...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Fresno man was convicted and sentenced to five years in state prison today for pimping a woman and trafficking a minor teenage girl in Costa Mesa. Marice Lavell Curry, 25, pleaded guilty to one felony count of human trafficking of a minor, one felony count of pandering a min...

A 34-year-old man has been charged today with killing a woman with a hammer and burying her body in a backyard, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jackie Jerome Rogers (dob 10/10/82) of Lennox has been charged with one count of murder in case YA095374. The felony complai...

LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today opened separate civil pattern or practice investigations into the Kern County Sheriff's Office and the Bakersfield Police Department.  California Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys and investigators will focus on allegations involving polic...

SACRAMENTO — Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that her office has filed new criminal charges against Carl Ferrer, Chief Executive Officer of online advertising website Backpage.com, and Michael Lacey and James Larkin, controlling shareholders of Backpage. Following the uncoverin...

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles man facing federal drug trafficking charges for allegedly trying to smuggle at least a kilogram of heroin on a plane leaving Los Angeles International Airport is scheduled to make his first court appearance this afternoon. James Mitchell, 25, who resides in Pico-Unio...

LOS ANGELES – A convicted sex offender from Long Beach has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of attempted sex trafficking of a child for allegedly responding to an online advertisement that offered sex with a 15-year-old girl in exchange for $200. Victor James Sporman, 46, who pr...

LOS ANGELES – An El Sereno man and former 18th Street gang member has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a federal drug trafficking offense and admitting he murdered a man who had failed to pay “taxes” to the Mexican Mafia. Eddie “Criminal” Garcia, 39, was sen...

The current senior vice president of trade marketing of a leading packaged seafood company has agreed to plead guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fix the prices of packaged seafood such as canned tuna sold in the United States, the Department of Justice announced. According to a one-count fel...

A 33-year-old man was sentenced today to life in prison for murdering four people at a restaurant in 2010, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Nerses Galstyan was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo to two consecutive terms of life in pri...

Los Angeles – A former Malibu businessman has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for conspiring to sell unregistered securities which generated $1,663,190 in illegal profits and a related tax fraud charge. Mervin Barclay Davis, 69, who has been in federal custody since 2013, was sent...

In a second partial settlement announced today by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of California, automakers Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Porsche AG and related entities (collectively referred to as Volkswagen), have agreed to recall 83,000 model ...

A 33-year-old man was sentenced today to life in prison for murdering four people at a restaurant in 2010, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Nerses Galstyan was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo to two consecutive terms of life in pri...