LOS ANGELES– A Lancaster couple has been sentenced, with each receiving several years in federal prison, for conspiring to defraud the California Employment Development Department (EDD) by filing fraudulent applications for disability benefits and obtaining more than $900,000 from the agency. R...

RIVERSIDE, California– Two Corona residents were arrested this morning by Postal Inspectors on federal conspiracy and mail theft-related offenses for a scheme that resulted in them using a counterfeit Postal Service key to access 300 mailboxes at a Corona apartment complex and steal mail. A thir...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A man was charged and arraigned today on charges of throwing an object that damaged a patrol vehicle and inciting a group of protesters to riot at a Donald Trump presidential campaign rally in the City of Costa Mesa. Other arrests made by Costa Mesa Police Department have no...

A former FBI special agent pleaded guilty today for stealing over $136,000 of drug proceeds seized during the execution of search warrants in 2014 and falsifying reports and tampering with a witness. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and S...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man previously dubbed the Assistant Coach Bandit by the FBI has been charged for defrauding over $10,000 from a woman through a loan modification scam. James Allen Ramsdell, 51, Huntington Beach, is charged with one felony count of grand theft by false pretense, one felony c...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A juvenile gang member was charged as an adult today with attempted murder for shooting a 42-year-old man during an argument. Phillip Nguyen, 15, Garden Grove, is direct filed as an adult and charged with one felony count of attempted murder with willful deliberation and pre...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted and sentenced yesterday for committing insurance fraud by working as a gardener while receiving total disability benefits totaling over $29,000. Alberto Gonzalez, 56, Stanton, pleaded guilty April 28, 2016, to three misdemeanor counts of making fraudulent s...

A U.S. Navy Captain Select was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for bribery charges, admitting that he accepted cash, gifts, travel expenses, entertainment and the services of prostitutes from foreign defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) in exchange for classified U.S. Navy i...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A recently transplanted Colorado man was arraigned on charges of trafficking, pimping, and pandering a woman. Michael James Swanson, 52, Anaheim, was charged yesterday with one felony count of human trafficking, one felony count of pandering by procuring, and one felony count ...

LOS ANGELES– A Valencia doctor pleaded guilty today to federal charges for submitting more than $2.4 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare. Dr. Gary J. Ordog, 61, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Fernando M. Olguin to one count of health care fraud. Judge Olguin is schedule...

RIVERSIDE, California– Three people with family connections to Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the perpetrators of the December 2, 2015 terrorist attack at the San Bernardino Inland Regional Center (IRC), were arrested this morning on federal conspiracy, marriage fraud and false statement charges. A...

LOS ANGELES– A Gardena man has been found guilty of 14 felony counts for trafficking seven girls who worked as prostitutes, several of whom worked under threats of force, fraud or coercion. Laron Carter, also known as “Birdd” and variations of that moniker, 39, was found guilty yesterday aftern...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Kun Wo Food Products Inc. (Kun Wo) and the firm's co-owners, Zi Xing Liu and Zi Cheng Liu, to prevent the distribution of adulterated rice noodles, the Department of Justice an...

LOS ANGELES– An Irvine man was arrested this morning on federal charges of illegally flying a twin-engine Falcon 10 turbojet airplane with passengers onboard without having a valid pilot's license. Arnold Gerald Leto III, 36, was charged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in United States ...

LOS ANGELES– The general manager of a La Puente garment factory has been found guilty of federal charges of offering to pay bribes to an investigator with the United States Department of Labor in exchange for the investigator closing an investigation into wage violations. Howard Quoc Trinh, 42,...

Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. will plead guilty for conspiring with competitors between 2002 and 2010 to fix prices for electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. “Hitachi Chemical subsidiaries and co-conspirators fixed th...

LOS ANGELES– A police officer employed by the Los Angeles Unified School District was taken into federal custody this morning after being named in an indictment that charges him with the attempted sex trafficking of a child. Mauricio Edgardo Estrada, 28, who has been placed on administrative le...

LOS ANGELES– A couple from Walnut, California and two of their import and distribution companies have been sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a wide variety of criminal activity, including smuggling Harp Seal oil into the United States from China, falsely classifying goods to avoid im...

LOS ANGELES– Concluding a three-year investigation, authorities today arrested 11 defendants who are accused of using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to receive and possess – and, in some cases, distribute – child pornography. The arrests are the results of eight indictments filed in United ...

LOS ANGELES – A Hacienda Heights couple pleaded guilty today to federal fraud charges related to their participating in a scheme that generated millions of dollars by soliciting investments in a company that purportedly offered children's educational courses – but in reality was a pyramid scheme ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Board of Parole Hearings (Panel), California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denied parole three years for an inmate convicted of the 1983 beating murder of a man who had offered him and his co-defendant a ride when they were hitchhiking. David Eugene Hayes, 5...

SANTA ANA, California – One of the owners of a now-defunct Southern California real estate investment firm was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to participating in a fraudulent scheme that ended with the bankruptcy of the company and hundreds of investors colle...

A former art dealer is facing grand theft charges for allegedly failing to pay more than $1 million to the owners of paintings sold through his gallery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Perry Rubenstein (dob 1/5/54) was charged in case BA444929 with three counts of gra...

A convicted sex offender who had been on the run since 2012 appeared in a Burbank courtroom today after being extradited from Mexico last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Arthur Crabtree (dob 6/27/61) pleaded not guilty on Jan. 17, 2012 to one felony count of chi...

A Manhattan Beach man who shot himself in the face after killing his wife and survived was sentenced today to 50 years to life in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Maren Dermody said Bill Lawrence Gallup, 68, was found guilty on Ap...