LOS ANGELES – A South Los Angeles man was sentenced this morning to 15 years in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine on two occasions, including one transaction that took place at his hamburger stand. Brian Sawyers, 57, was sentenced by United States District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew for ...

LOS ANGELES – A West Los Angeles man who previously worked as a teacher's assistant was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography via a peer-to-peer file-sharing system on his computer. The images involved in this case depicted children under the age of 15...

The current senior vice president of sales 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 felony charge...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Northern California man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring to pimp a woman and illegally possessing a stun gun in his vehicle. Binh Cong Thai, 29, San Jose, pleaded guilty on March 3, 2016, to one felony count of conspiracy to commit pimping and one misdemean...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County man was convicted and sentenced yesterday to 10 years in state prison for running an $11 million Ponzi scheme and victimizing over 27 people with sale of unsecured securities based on fraudulent insurance policies. Joseph Francis Bartholomew, 77, Lake Forest, ...

LOS ANGELES – A Toronto couple who were extradited earlier this year to the United States have been sentenced for their roles in a mass marketing scheme that targeted hundreds of victims across the United States with counterfeit checks that accompanied bogus claims they had been selected to beco...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – A water polo coach at University High School in Irvine was arraigned today for unlawful sex with a 17-year-old student. Coleman Michael Pickell, 23, Irvine, is charged with three felony counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, two felony count of sexual penetration by foreig...

After a five-day trial, a federal jury found Justin Cole Whittington, 25, of Bakersfield, California, guilty of federal hate crimes for firing a shotgun while yelling racist slurs at a Latino man. The conviction was announced by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of th...

LOS ANGELES– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that Andrew Jordan, 37, was sentenced to 21 years, 4 months in prison in Los Angeles County Superior Court after being found guilty on felony charges, including human trafficking, pimping, pandering, domestic violence, and assault. “H...

A former supervisory contracting officer was sentenced to 72 months in prison today for accepting bribe payments in exchange for steering U.S. Navy contracts to the president and chief executive officer of a defense contractor. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Departm...

American Management Services LLC, based in Seattle, agreed to pay more than $1.6 million pursuant to a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve criminal charges that the company defrauded the U.S. Army and Virginia-based Clark Realty Capital LLC (Clark) while performing property management servi...

LOS ANGELES – A longtime U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been convicted of federal charges for theft of mail from the International Mail Facility (IMF) in Torrance and arranging to have an accomplice deposit checks obtained from the stolen mail. Carlos Canjura, 54, of Van Nuy...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A woman was convicted and sentenced today to one year in jail for falsely accusing her ex-boyfriend of stalking and making criminal threats, resulting in his arrest four times. Stephani Renae Lawson, 25, Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty to one felony count of false imprisonme...

33- year-old live-in partner in their apartment and then setting the room on fire, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Angela Jordan said Ezekiel Jamal Dear, 27, was found guilty on Oct. 19 of one count each of voluntary manslaughter with a knife ...

A federal court in the Northern District of California entered an order today authorizing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve a John Doe summons on Coinbase Inc., seeking information about U.S. taxpayers who conducted transactions in a convertible virtual currency during the years 2013 to...

LOS ANGELES – A Torrance man has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for amassing a collection of more than 20,000 images and videos of child pornography that he made available to others via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing system. Jace Jeanes, 39, was sentenced on Monday by Un...

LOS ANGELES – A Carlsbad man was sentenced this week to five years and three months in federal prison for his part in an international money laundering organization that conspired to move more than $15 million dollars in drug money for organizations that included the Sinaloa Cartel. Bradley Jo...

RIVERSIDE, California – Law enforcement authorities have arrested an alleged pimp who is charged with trafficking a 16-year-old girl and advertising her services as a prostitute in an online publication. Lawrence Gunn Jr., 32, was arrested without incident Tuesday afternoon at a Woodland Hills a...

A Los Angeles County sheriff's custody assistant has been charged with assault for his role in the attack of a jail inmate two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Jonathan Grijalva (dob 12/6/88) was charged in case BA451349 with one count of assault by me...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Laguna Niguel man is scheduled to be arraigned today for the stabbing-murder of his acquaintance after they argued in the victim's home. Steve Richard Gilbert, 59, Laguna Niguel, is charged with one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of...

Former pro football player Darren Sharper was sentenced today to 20 years in state prison and ordered to register for life as a sex offender after earlier admitting to drugging and raping two women, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Sharper, 41, pleaded no contest almos...

LOS ANGELES– Two former deputies with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department were ordered today to serve time in federal prison for violating the civil rights of a mentally ill jail inmate who was beaten, kicked and pepper sprayed after showing disrespect to a jail employee at the Twin Towers Corr...

LOS ANGELES– A Long Beach man was sentenced today to four years in federal prison in relation to a mortgage rescue scheme that brought in nearly $3 million from fees from distressed homeowners. Karl Robinson, 52, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Manuel L. Real, who also ordere...

A former assistant engineer for the City of Santa Clarita pleaded no contest today to embezzling more than $533,000 and was sentenced to four years in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. David Rubira, 41, pleaded no contest to one felony count of misappropri...

The Justice Department announced today that Bechtel National Inc., Bechtel Corp., URS Corp. (predecessor in interest to AECOM Global II LLC) and URS Energy and Construction Inc. (now known as AECOM Energy and Construction Inc.) have agreed to pay $125 million to resolve allegations under the Fals...