An ex-physician pleaded guilty  to federal criminal charges for illegally prescribing and distributing the semi-synthetic opioid painkiller oxycodone to undercover operatives who visited the physician's Victorville medical office. Wendell Mark Street, 67, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty...

                 A grand jury charged Brian Patric Booker, 50, of Chino Hills, a retired Santa Ana Police officer with violating the civil rights of a man by using unreasonable force during an arrest and then lying about the incident in official reports. Booker was charged with one felony count o...

            William Crosby IV, 32, a former United States Postal Service employee pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for participating in one burglary and two armed robberies of USPS trucks carrying cash – incidents that caused nearly a quarter million dollars in losses. He pleaded guilty...

             A jury found a suburban Houston man, Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba,  guilty of 27 federal criminal charges for hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court computer system and then using it to send approximately 2 million malicious phishing emails. The jury found him guilty of conspiracy to com...

LOS ANGELES – A Sherman Oaks man has been arrested on federal narcotics trafficking charges related to the deaths of two people who suffered fentanyl overdoses at the same Woodland Hills residence.             Trent Michael Tomasovich, 28, a Sherman Oaks man was arrested on federal narcotics traf...

            Wei Xu, 56, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection watch commander at the Long Beach Seaport pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for running an illegal gun-selling business, unlawfully possessing more than 40 machine guns and other prohibited firearms, failing to disclose ...

A federal district court judge sentenced Anthony Paul De La Torriente, 30, of Simi Valley, a former cheerleading coach, to 78 months in federal prison for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman on a cruise ship bound from Long Beach to Ensenada, Mexico during the summer of 2015.   A federal jur...

A federal judge sentenced Fernando Barroso Sr., 69, a former civilian employee of the United States Navy who was a senior procurement official for Naval Base Ventura County and who received $1.2 million in illegal kickbacks to 70 months in federal prison. Barroso pleaded guilty to one count of co...

Dennis Blieden, 29, a former executive at StyleHaul Inc., a digital marketing company that represents “influencers” on YouTube and Instagram, has been arrested for embezzling $22 million from his employer and using the stolen money for buy-ins at professional poker tournaments, crypto-currency in...

            Nineteen year old Aquinas Kasbar pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of stealing a ring-tailed Lemur, an endangered species. He faces a year in federal prison and a $100,000 fine. On July 27, 2018, Kasbar broke into the Santa Ana Zoo after it had closed for the day. Using bolt cutte...

Fourteen burrito shaped methamphetamine packages landed Ricardo Renteria in federal prison for 180 months. On February 3, 2018, the police pulled over Renteria because he drove his white Chevrolet Tahoe  erratically and evasively. Renteria consented to a search of the vehicle and the police found...

            Israel returned Linda Morrow, 67, to the United States after Morrow was named in a 31-count federal grand jury indictment.  Israel determined that Morrow entered Israel  on a fraudulent Mexican passport. Linda Morrow and her husband, David Morrow, 74, were arrested in Israel. David Mo...

            A jury found Yi-Chi Shih, 64, an electrical engineer, guilty of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), mail fraud, wire fraud, subscribing to a false tax return, making false statements to a government agency, and conspiracy to gain unauthorized...

A federal grand jury charged Edwin Oliva, 28, with distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.  Oliva talked to the police and told them an acquaintance came to his house after midnight on February 28. Oliva said he gave the acquaintance fentanyl, a drug that killed her. Oliva should have claime...

             The feds indicted 50 year old Jose Ramon Aguilar-Moreno, a Salvadoran national who was deported from the United States in 2003 after being convicted of sexually abusing a child, for illegally reentering the United States and posting child pornography on Facebook. Even worse, he faile...

As part of a joint federal-state law enforcement action targeting the Rancho San Pedro street gang, authorities unsealed two federal grand jury indictments that charge 14 members and associates of the gang with narcotics and firearms offenses. The federal government charged thirteen alleged San P...

            A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy got 12 months in federal prison for lying to FBI agents about beating a handcuffed man in 2011 at Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles.  Byron Dredd and five other deputies were assigned to the Visiting Center at Men's Central Jail. On Febru...

             A Downey-based attorney, Jackie Ferrari, pleaded guilty to a federal narcotics distribution charge for illegally selling more than 1,000 oxycodone pills after offering the opioid drugs for sale on Craigslist. Court documents show that, Ferrari sold a law enforcement source 50 oxycodo...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A former medical doctor and his business partner were sentenced Tuesday to 33 months in prison for their individual roles in a $7.1 million Medicare health care fraud scheme that occurred at three Las Vegas hospice and home healthcare agencies, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A...

Minas Matosyan, a.k.a. “Maserati Mike,” 38, of Encino, and Hayk Matosyan, 32, of Granada Hills, each pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. United States District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez has scheduled a July 15 sentencing hearing for the brothe...

            SANTA ANA, California – A Laguna Hills man has been arrested on federal charges alleging he oversaw a scheme that smuggled counterfeit Apple and Samsung cell phone components from China that were sold in the United States, generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue.            ...

            LOS ANGELES – A California attorney and ex-Rialto police officer pleaded guilty today to one felony count of illegally possessing multiple unregistered weapons, including a short-barreled rifle, two silencers, and a hand grenade.             Sergio Lopez de Tirado, 43, of Corona, plea...

            LOS ANGELES – A California attorney and ex-Rialto police officer pleaded guilty today to one felony count of illegally possessing multiple unregistered weapons, including a short-barreled rifle, two silencers, and a hand grenade.             Sergio Lopez de Tirado, 43, of Corona, plea...

            LOS ANGELES – A woman was sentenced today to 54 months in federal prison for defrauding the state's unemployment insurance program out of more than one-half million dollars by using stolen identities to submit dozens of bogus claims for “employees” who supposedly worked at sham compan...

LOS ANGELES – The lead defendant in a federal hate crimes indictment has pleaded guilty to five charges and admitted he organized a group of street gang members who firebombed African-American residences inside the Ramona Gardens Housing Development in Boyle Heights “in order to force the African...