SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 96-year-old man is scheduled to be arraigned for sexually assaulting two girls under the age of 14 in his home. Kenneth Leroy Collins, 96, Laguna Woods, is charged with four felony counts of committing a lewd act upon a child under the age of 14 with sentencing enhancement a...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced today to 55 years to life in state prison for assaulting a 2-year-old child causing his death. Lae Thongphun, 34, Garden Grove, was found guilty by a jury Dec. 14, 2015, of one felony count of involuntary manslaughter and one felony count of assault on a ch...

A 45-year-old man was sentenced today to 25 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting his live-in girlfriend near the Porter Ranch house they shared, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Last week, Joseph Defalco pleaded no contest to one count of second-degree mu...

FULLERTON, Calif. – A man was arraigned Friday on charges of attempting to traffic and pimp an undercover officer posing as a minor girl on social media. Joseph Deandre Edwards, 21, Anaheim, is charged with one felony count of attempted human trafficking of a minor, one felony count of attempted ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A gang member who worked as a federal informant was sentenced today to 21 years in state prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm in public. Fernando Jose Perez, also known as Inmate F, 34, Theo Lacy Jail, was found guilty by a jury on March 9, 2009, of one felony c...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver was sentenced today to four years in state prison for causing a rollover crash that killed a bicyclist. Dominic Devin Carratt, 20, Dana Point, pleaded guilty on Feb. 9, 2016, to one felony count of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence while intoxicated...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Additional charges were filed today for three defendants previously charged with escaping from custody at the Orange County Men's Central Jail (OCJ). Bac Tien Duong, 43, Hossein Nayeri, 37, Newport Beach, and Jonathan Tieu, 20, Fountain Valley, are each charged with one felony...

SANTA ANA, California– A Santa Ana man was arrested this morning on federal charges of intentionally aiming a laser pointer at a law enforcement helicopter. Mario Deleon Lopez, 35, was taken into custody without incident by special agents with the FBI, and he is expected to be arraigned this af...

LOS ANGELES– An Oceanside man has pleaded guilty to launching repeated online attacks against a computer system operated by his former employer, a Rancho Dominguez-based manufacturer of precision laser and mechanical drilling equipment. Conrad Pearson, 64, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count ...

A 32-year-old man pleaded no contest today to attacking his children's mother and his family member last month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Robert Allen Shirley (dob 4/18/83) of Pomona pleaded no contest to three felony counts in case ...

Three men have been charged with a racially motivated attack on Hispanic victims at a Lake Los Angeles park, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Ian Justine Plankey (dob 12/7/95), Richard Lawrence Daulton (dob 10/1/96) and Kevin Matthew Stewart (dob 10/23/90) all fa...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A taxi cab driver is scheduled to face trial tomorrow for crashing into a pedestrian, resulting in the victim's death, and driving away from the scene. Ronald Aviles, 57, San Clemente, is charged with one felony count of hit and run with permanent injury or death. If convict...

LOS ANGELES– A former supervisor with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) who conspired with his ex-wife to smuggle goods into the United States in exchange for bribes has been sentenced to serve 45 months in prison. Sam Herbert Allen Jr., 54, of San Juan Capistrano (formerly of Diamond Ba...

SANTA ANA, California– The owner and CEO of a now-defunct Southern California real estate investment firm was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for perpetrating a scheme that ended with the bankruptcy of the company and hundreds of investors collectively losing as much as $169 million. M...

LOS ANGELES– An attorney who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion charges – and who prosecutors say defrauded a dozen clients out of at least $8 million in an investment fraud scheme – was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison. Stephen Young Kang, 46, of Newport Beach, was sent...

The suspect who had been hospitalized following a wrong-way chase and police shootout in January is awaiting arraignment today on more than two dozen charges, including capital murder, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Artyom Gasparyan (dob 11/30/83) is scheduled to be ...

A Sylmar man was sentenced to 35 years to life in state prison for killing his 45-year-old wife at their home, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Dec. 9, 2015, a jury found Albino Topete Morales, 60, guilty of one count each of first-degree murder with a handgun use a...

A 21-year-old man was charged today with killing a friend he knew since childhood, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. David Aldana (dob 8/17/94) of Newhall faces one count of willful, deliberate, and premeditated murder in case PA085781. The felony complaint includes the...

LOS ANGELES – A Lancaster man has agreed to plead guilty to copyright infringement for illegally posting screener versions of two movies – “The Revenant” and “The Peanuts Movie” – to a publicly accessible website. As a result of the illegal upload, more than 1 million people were able to download...

LOS ANGELES – Two Glendale residents have been found guilty of laundering millions of dollars illegally generated by a health care fraud scheme that billed Medicare for equipment and tests that were not medically necessary and sometimes were never provided. Edgar Pogosian, also known as “Edgar H...

SANTA ANA, California – A former Senior Immigration Services Officer with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been found guilty of accepting bribes in a long-running immigration fraud scheme. Jesus Figueroa, 69, of Tujunga, was found guilty yesterday afternoon of on...

LOS ANGELES – The co-owner of a towing business was named in a federal grand jury indictment returned today that charges him with paying a bribe to a member of the Huntington Park City Council in an attempt to obtain support for a proposed fee increase for towing and vehicle storage. Sukhbir Sing...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A transient man was sentenced today to nine years in state prison for attacking and critically injuring an 83-year-old man. Demarrea Chante Barnes, 29, pleaded guilty Feb. 4, 2016, to one felony count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, one felony coun...

A 59-year-old man accused of posing as a Catholic priest has been sentenced to one year in county jail after pleading guilty to stealing funds from churchgoers. Erwin Mena pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of grand theft and was immediately sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced today to 10 years and four months in state prison for trafficking, pimping, and pandering five women and one minor girl from Texas to Orange County. Henry Ray Perry, 34, Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty to a court offer of one felony count each of human traff...