LOS ANGELES– A former official with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), who went on to operate an immigration consulting service, has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for participating in a scheme to pay bribes to other government employees to obtain “Green Cards” and citizens...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A business owner and his bookkeeper were arraigned today on charges of $1.5 million tax evasion and an insurance fraud scheme. Ronald Scott Dee, 63, Irvine, and Pamela Palmer Quast, 61, Santa Ana, are each charged with 28 felony counts of failing to file a return with intent t...

A 30-year-old woman was convicted today of killing her friend last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The jury deliberated for a day before finding Vershonda Charisse Sneed guilty of first-degree murder in case TA137551. Jurors also found true a special allegation ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A striker was arraigned today for the human trafficking, pandering, and attempted pimping of a fictitious minor girl using a social media website. AC Antonio Chavez Moses III, 39, Los Angeles, is charged with one felony count of human trafficking of a minor, one felony count o...

LOS ANGELES– The former chief executive officer of Absolute Capital Holdings Ltd., which had its primary office in Palma on the Spanish island of Majorca, has entered into an agreement with federal prosecutors in which he will forfeit $8 million that federal prosecutors contend was derived from ...

A southern California man pleaded guilty today to making excessive campaign contributions and making campaign contributions in the name of another. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert of the Easter...

LOS ANGELES– A man who ran a trucking company in Sante Fe Springs has pled guilty to dumping 11,000 gallons of waste water and soap into a tributary of the San Gabriel River in Santa Fe Springs, California. David Lee Flury, the 61 year old owner and operator of the Flury Industries, Inc., a wast...

LOS ANGELES– In a plea agreement filed this morning, a Glendale doctor has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge for illegally distributing hydrocodone, a powerful painkiller best known by the brand names Vicodin and Norco. Dr. Manasseh Nwaigwe, 72, who resides in Glendale...

LOS ANGELES– Two Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies who were found guilty after a two-week trial earlier this year of falsifying reports with the intent to obstruct justice related to their assault of a waist-chained  inmate were sentenced to prison terms today. Former deputies Joey Aguiar, 28, and...

SANTA ANA, California– An Orange County man has pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately $1.4 million from his employer, a crime he committed when he was pending sentencing in another embezzlement case involving another former employer. Peter Suk Lee, 49, a resident of the City of Orange, ple...

SANTA ANA, California– A longtime member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang who controlled Latino street gangs in Orange County for at least three decades was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison after being found guilty earlier this year of federal racketeering offenses. Peter Ojeda, 74...

LOS ANGELES – A longtime member of the Mexican Mafia-affiliated Southside Montebello street gang was found guilty this afternoon of federal racketeering charges that included providing a firearm used by another gang member to kill a rival. George Vera Sr., 48, was convicted by a federal jury th...

SANTA ANA, California– A former Garden Grove resident pleaded not guilty this afternoon to federal charges of hacking into the computer system of Blue Stone Strategy Group – an Irvine-based company and the man's former employer – and deleting files. Nikishna Polequaptewa, 34, who currently resi...

A California man was convicted late Friday by a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Criminal Division; Assistant Special Agent in Charge Cam B. Strahm of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Portland District Of...

LOS ANGELES– Two doctors were found guilty today of federal health care fraud charges for falsely certifying that Medicare patients were terminally ill, and therefore qualified for hospice care, when the vast majority of them were not actually dying. Following a two-week trial, the doctors were...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Fresno man was convicted and sentenced today to five years in state prison for trafficking and pimping a teenage girl, who was on a website known for commercial sex and prostitution. Akili Shakur Foster, 18, Fresno, pleaded guilty today to one felony count of pimping and one...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Four men were arraigned today for defrauding investors of over $1 million from investors for a project to build a miniature golf course, restaurant, and water park in San Clemente. Christopher Schlegel, 36, Rancho Santa Margarita, is charged with four felony counts of using an...

LOS ANGELES– The operator of a Brea-based investment company that prosecutors allege was a Ponzi scheme that brought in about $7 million with promises of breakthrough products made with graphene was arrested this morning on federal fraud charges. Wenxing Huang, who is also known as “Di Peng” an...

SANTA ANA, California– A Mexican national who allegedly led an organization that assisted international narcotics traffickers launder more than $60 million in illicit drug proceeds has been taken into custody, as have three of his associates. Gustavo Barba, 59, of Guadalajara, was arrested Tues...

A California man was sentenced today to 16 years and three months in prison for producing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert of the Eastern District of California, Specia...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A woman was arraigned yesterday, May 2, 2016, on charges of submitting a fraudulent insurance claim over $16,000 for a vehicle being driven by a relative in a minor collision. Amezcua Alejandra Rodriguez, 40, Santa Ana, is charged with two felony counts of insurance fraud. If ...

LOS ANGELES – A Riverside man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possessing about 100 images depicting child pornography, including sexually explicit pictures of pre-pubescent girls under the age of 12. James Gregory O'Neill, 58, was sentenced Monday afternoon by United States...

LOS ANGELES– Postal Inspectors this morning arrested a Monrovia woman on federal charges of assaulting a mail carrier, who allegedly was subjected to racial epithets and then pepper sprayed in the face. Ruby Guerrero Valenzuela, 64, was arrested on charges of assaulting the United States Postal...

LOS ANGELES– A Sacramento man was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison today for producing child pornography that was used to advertise the victim as a prostitute. Antonio Dickerson, 26, was found guilty in February by a federal jury of one count of sexual exploitation of a minor for p...

SANTA ANA, California– A Garden Grove man was taken into federal custody this morning after being charged with receiving sexual videos from a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet and traveling to Canada to have sex with the girl. Paul Binh Do, 29, was arrested after he surrendered himself t...