SANTA ANA, California– A former office manager for an independent sporting goods distributor was found guilty this afternoon of three counts of wire fraud for using company checks and credit cards to embezzle more than $300,000 from her Los Alamitos-based employer. Juliana James England, 60, of...

LOS ANGELES– A federal grand jury today indicted a British man on federal charges alleging that he travelled to the Coachella Valley in late January in order to engage in illicit sexual conduct with boys who were 10 and 12 years old. Paul Charles Wilkins, 70, of Littleport in East Cambridgeshir...

A Gardena man is scheduled to be in court today accused of killing a 73-year-old man with a mallet, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. David Xavier Bushman (dob 6/6/71) faces one count of murder with the allegation that he used a mallet as a deadly and dangerous weapon i...

LOS ANGELES– A Lakewood woman has been found guilty of five felony charges for lying to banks that funded mortgages for three properties that later went into default, causing about $660,000 in losses to the lenders. Felicia Muhammad, 45, who at the time of the criminal conduct was a licensed re...

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles man who recruited churches into a $4.2 million mortgage scheme that defrauded Broadway Federal Bank has been sentenced to serve one year and one day in federal prison. Chester Peggese, 59, received the prison sentence yesterday from United States District Judge Manuel...

A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in an investment fraud scheme that promoted fraudulent investment opportunities and caused more than $5 million in losses to investors. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Divis...

A 49-year-old woman was sentenced yesterday to five years of probation and community labor for stealing Scrip fundraising gift cards from Holy Trinity School in San Pedro, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Last week, defendant Kimberly Rauch (dob 1/12/67) pleaded guilty...

A 37-year-old woman accused of giving birth and abandoning her baby in a restroom is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Marygrace Trinidad (dob 10/27/78) has been charged with one felony count of child abuse in case KA111834. The...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow on charges of committing burglaries of over 30 homes of female college students that he found by using Instagram. Arturo Galvan, 44, Menifee, is charged with 33 felony counts of first degree residential burglary, one felony count ...

LOS ANGELES– An Oregon man has pleaded guilty to a felony computer hacking charge related to a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to 363 Apple and Google e-mail accounts, including those belonging to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. Andrew Helton, 29, of Portland,...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was arraigned today for attempted murder by shooting at a Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) officer and impersonating an officer during a burglary. Korrell Santana Kybar Cole, 22, Huntington Beach, is charged with one felony count of attempted murder of a peace officer...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A felon who had two of his prior felony convictions reduced to misdemeanors under Proposition 47 (Prop 47), which resulted in his release from custody, was arraigned on an indictment today for shooting his firearm at police officers while leading them on a chase. Jimmy Hoang T...

Two veteran Los Angeles Police Department officers who worked as partners assigned to the Hollywood Division have been charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting four women, often while the pair was on duty, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. James Nichols (dob 2/...

LOS ANGELES – A federal jury this afternoon convicted a Sacramento man of producing child pornography in a case in which his co-defendant previously pleaded guilty to the sex trafficking of the 16-year-old victim. Antonio Dickerson, 26, was found guilty of one count of sexual exploitation of a mi...

A Palos Verdes man was charged today with the October assault of a man at the Dodger Stadium parking lot following a Dodgers-Mets game, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Michael Rae Papayans (dob 7/12/88) is scheduled to be arraigned on March 11 in Department 30 at the ...

Two women and one man were sentenced to prison today for a series of attacks on other Chinese national students, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Defendant Yunyao Zhai was sentenced to 13 years in state prison, while her co-defendant Xinlei Zhang was given a six year p...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A San Jose man and woman are scheduled to be arraigned today for the human trafficking, pimping, and pandering of a 15-year-old girl and three additional women using a firearm, intimidation, and/or drugs. Ariel Guizar, 35, and Araceli Mendoza Alvarez, 23, both of San Jose, are...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today for pummeling a 71-year-old man with a baseball bat in a gas station parking lot. Samuel Elijah Alvarez, 18, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of attempted murder with premeditation and deliberation, one felony count of aggrav...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, of forcibly raping two women with whom he was acquainted. Babak Azadgilani, 28, Laguna Niguel, was found guilty by a jury of two felony counts of forcible rape, and forcible oral copulation, with sentencing enhancements and allegati...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A father and his son are scheduled to be arraigned today for assaulting an on-duty Huntington Beach Police Department (HBPD) officer by knocking him to the ground and repeatedly hitting and kicking him. Darryl Headrick, 58, and Bryce Headrick, 23, both of Huntington Beach, are...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Central Valley man is scheduled to be arraigned today for the human trafficking, pimping and pandering of two teenage girls and pimping a woman in Orange County. Desheon Orlandorafeal Young, 19, Fresno, is charged with two felony counts of human trafficking of a minor, one f...

A 24-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman have been charged in connection with the alleged car-tocar shooting of a driver on Burbank Boulevard, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Joseph Michael Lupercio aka Blanco (dob 1/9/92) of Sylmar faces one count each of attempted ...

A Lancaster man was sentenced today to 15 years to life in state prison for crashing into a Lancaster home, killing a 71-year-old woman who was in her bedroom, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Sun Chung said a jury found Aaron Daniel Benson of ...

A Los Angeles man who fatally stabbed his girlfriend's 11-year-old son in front of his 5-year-old brother was sentenced today to 56 years to life in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Rineson Curtis Adams, 29, was convicted in January of the first-degree mu...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to face trial Tuesday for murdering his neighbor by shooting him in the face. Robert Joseph Price, 55, Garden Grove, is charged with one felony count of murder with sentencing enhancement allegations for the personal discharge of a firearm causing death and ...