A former executive of a Singapore-based defense contracting firm was sentenced to 63 months in prison today for his participation in a fraud scheme that over-billed the U.S. Navy by more than $34 million for ship husbanding services. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice D...

An Inglewood man was convicted today of nine counts of willful, premeditated attempted murder of police officers, rape of a hostage and other counts following a nine-hour standoff more than two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors, who deliberated just ov...

The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today seeking to block the acquisition by Tribune Publishing Company, publisher of theLos Angeles Times, of Freedom Communications Inc., publisher of theRegisterin Orange County, California, and thePress-Enterprisein Riverside County, Cali...

LOS ANGELES– Capping a year-long investigation, special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration have arrested four Southland men on federal narcotics and money laundering charges related to an operation in which they allegedly imported a powerful synthetic opiate from China and produced ...

Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, of Sacramento, California, was indicted today in the Northern District of Illinois for attempting to provide material support to acts of violence overseas. The indictment was announced byAssistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attor...

A 33-year-old woman was sentenced today to 14 years in state prison for deserting her newborn baby near a Compton riverbed, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Porche Laronda Washington pleaded no contest to attempted murder in case TA138783. ...

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has permanently barred Stacy John Sanchez of Orange County, California, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order prohibits Sanchez from acting as a federal tax r...

Three men are scheduled to be arraigned today on murder charges for the 2013 slaying of a former Garfield High School football player, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jonathon Joseph Gonzalez (dob 12/4/87), Roque Solis (dob 11/4/85) and Anthony Aaron Gabriel (dob 7/23...

LOS ANGELES– A Pennsylvania man was charged today with felony computer hacking related to a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to over 100 Apple and Google e-mail accounts, including those belonging to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. Ryan Collins, 36, of Lancaste...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today for aiding in three defendants' escape from the Orange County Men's Central Jail (OCJ) by providing them with money and alcohol. Tung Nguyen, 41, Westminster, is charged with one felony count of being an accessory after the fact. If con...

LOS ANGELES – A federal jury has convicted a Studio City man of possessing more than 1,400 credit card profiles that had been stolen from consumers who used gas pumps with “skimmers” that illegally collected their credit card information. Koren Robert Kechedzian, 24, of Studio City, was convicted...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Three Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) officers were charged today with petty theft and one with vandalism during a legal search of a marijuana dispensary pursuant to a search warrant. Brandon Matthew Sontag, 31, and Nicole Lynn Quijas, 37, and Jorge Arroyo, 32, are charged ...

A Los Angeles man was sentenced today to 150 years in prison for sexually abusing three minor girls during trips to Russia over a two-year period, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. In November 2015, a jury convicted Yusef Yunoso...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A defendant faces additional charges for attempting to take restitution money from victims in another open case. No Sung Pak, 75, Hollywood, is charged with two felony counts of attempted taking and receiving a portion of a worker's wage on a public work, and a sentencing enha...

A Sylmar woman was sentenced today to five years in state prison for forcing a young girl smuggled from El Salvador to work for her for two years, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office announced. Dora Alicia Valle, 52, pleaded no contest last July to one felony count each of human tra...

A 42-year-old man was sentenced today to 31 years to life in state prison for planning to kill his wife's mother in her Long Beach home, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Dec. 1, 2015, a jury convicted Frank Haverly of three felony counts: conspiracy to commit murder...

A 27-year-old man was charged today with trafficking a minor for sex and sexually abusing the teenage girl for nearly a month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Patrick Lamont Harris (dob 10/22/88) has been charged with seven felony counts in case NA103753: four counts ...

LOS ANGELES– A Santa Monica man pleaded guilty this morning to a federal conspiracy charge stemming from a “synthetic identity” fraud ring that created bogus identities for the purpose of obtaining credit cards. Yair Shoshani, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Florida inmate was arraigned today on charges of assaulting, kidnapping, and sexually assaulting three women near a park in Westminster. Arnold Eduardo Martinez, 34, Blackwater Correctional Facility, Florida, is charged with one felony count of attempted kidnapping to commit...

LOS ANGELES– A federal judge has ordered that Evnol, Inc., which operates Palisades Pizza, and the company's owner, Christopher H. Bandt, timely file payroll tax returns and pay payroll taxes. In an order filed on Monday, United States District Judge Manuel L. Real entered a permanent injunctio...

Joseph Chait, the senior auction administrator of a Beverly Hills, California, gallery and auction house, pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle wildlife products made from rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and coral with a market value of at least approximately $1 million, announced Assistant Att...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is expected to be arraigned today for stabbing and murdering a concert attendee in Santa Ana during a live performance. Juan Angel Rivera, 21, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife. If convicte...

A Torrance man was sentenced today to 58 years to life in state prison for raping a woman while he was out on bail on another case, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Frank Dunnick said Guy Allen Dietz, 45, was convicted on Jan. 28 of forcible ra...

LOS ANGELES– A Bay Area man was found guilty this afternoon of travelling to Cambodia to have illicit sexual conduct with young girls. Ronald Gerard Boyajian, 55, who resided in Menlo Park and previously spent time on the Palos Verdes peninsula, was found guilty of three child exploitation crim...

LOS ANGELES– A North Hollywood man has been sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for his role in a tax fraud conspiracy scheme that fraudulently claimed more than $1.2 million in fraudulent tax refunds. Antonio Jerome Cook, 37, received the prison sentence yesterday from United States Distr...