LOS ANGELES – A long-time manager at CBS Employees Federal Credit Union is in federal custody on a criminal complaint alleging he embezzled $40 million from his employer over two decades and spent the money on gambling, expensive cars and watches, and travel by private jet.           ...

WICHITA, KAN. – A California man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in federal prison for making a hoax call to Wichita police that resulted in an innocent man who had no connection to the defendant or his co-conspirators being shot and killed by police, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. Tyler...

LOS ANGELES – Two brothers who allegedly operated an unlicensed investment advisory business out of their parents' Encino home were arrested today on federal wire fraud charges for an alleged scheme in which they used false account statements to hide multi-million dollar losses of their investors...

A 40-year-old man pleaded no contest today for driving his pickup truck on the wrong side of the 405 Freeway and crashing head-on into a car, killing two Palmdale brothers, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Morgan Mallory said Rodney Deshone Wri...

LOS ANGELES – A long-time international fugitive who is charged with nine felonies for allegedly participating in a $9 million bank fraud scheme against Wells Fargo has been taken into federal custody in Los Angeles.             Napoleon Olarte, 41, formerly of Reseda, lived in South America as a...

            LOS ANGELES – Members of two alleged Los Angeles County crime rings have been charged in separate federal criminal cases alleging they conspired to use the Darknet to illicitly and secretly sell methamphetamine and other illegal narcotics nationwide, including one shipment of heroin i...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Convicted bomb maker Saleh Abdallah Ali was sentenced today to 19 years and four months in state prison for the transportation and possession of destructive devices in Brea. Saleh Ali, 48, Salinas, was convicted on March 4, 2019, of two felony counts each of use of a destructi...

A mother was charged today with the murder of her 9-year-old daughter whose body was found in a bag in Hacienda Heights last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Taquesta Graham (dob 5/12/90) was charged in case KA120432 with one count of murder. She is scheduled to ...

A Lake Los Angeles man was sentenced today to 50 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting his wife in February 2018, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. A jury convicted 37-year-old Michael Daniel Mayberry of one felony count each of first-degree murder and poss...

LOS ANGELES – A certified public accountant pleaded guilty today to a federal wire fraud charge for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded her victims, many of whom were clients of her accounting firm, out of tens of millions of dollars over a span of two decades.             Carol Ann Pedersen, 6...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man made his first Orange County court appearance today after being extradited from Colorado for the 1973 Newport Beach cold case m! urder of Linda O'Keefe. James Alan Neal, 72, Monument, Colorado, is charged with one felony count of murder while engaged in the commission of...

SANTA ANA, California – A federal grand jury today issued a four-count indictment against a Long Beach man for his role in the May 15, 2018 bombing of the Magyar Kozmetica spa in Aliso Viejo that killed the man's ex-girlfriend and seriously injured two other people.             Stephen William Be...

BOSTON – Dozens of individuals involved in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits were arrested by federal agents in multiple states this morning and charged in federal court in...

WASHINGTON – Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank Ltd., (Mizrahi-Tefahot) and its subsidiaries, United Mizrahi Bank (Switzerland) Ltd. (UMBS) and Mizrahi Tefahot Trust Company Ltd.  (Mizrahi Trust Company), entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the Department of Justice filed today in the U.S....

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced today that j2 Global, Inc. has agreed to pay $1.2 million and change its sales practices to settle a civil lawsuit alleging the internet services company automatically renewed subscriptions in violation of state law. Prosecutors with the...

LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities this morning arrested five defendants linked to a scheme that helped Chinese nationals obtain student visas by hiring individuals who used fake Chinese passports to take an English proficiency test for the foreign students.             The arrests were made pursu...

A 30-year-old man pleaded no contest today to killing his girlfriend and shooting the couple's child in their home a year ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Abigail Baron said Juan Antonio Rodriguez of Compton entered the plea to one felony ...

LOS ANGELES – A former West Covina resident pleaded guilty today to knowingly creating and publishing an advertisement that sought to exchange sexually-explicit images of children on a Russian photo-sharing website frequently used to trade child pornography.             Christopher Clay Roman-Tut...

            LOS ANGELES – Three men were arrested this morning on federal charges alleging they took part in a scheme that used millions of dollars wired from China to purchase seven residential homes in San Bernardino County that were converted into illegal marijuana grow houses.             The...

LOS ANGELES – A former civilian employee of the United States Navy who was a senior procurement official for Naval Base Ventura County pleaded guilty in federal court today and admitted receiving kickbacks totaling more than $1.2 million.             Fernando Barroso Sr., 69, of Oxnard, pleaded g...

            LOS ANGELES – A former Glendale police officer was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to a series of charges and admitted that he provided information to the Mexican Mafia that allowed an associate of the prison gang to escape justice for a time and...

LOS ANGELES – A Downey man has been arrested on federal criminal charges for his role in four armed robberies of GameStop video game stores in Los Angeles and Orange counties that resulted in the theft of $135,000 in merchandise, cash and employees' cellphones.             Frederick Lopez Jr., 27...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A woman was convicted on Friday of defraudin! g victims by soliciting and keeping donations of cash and supplies intended for firefighters during the Holy Fire. Ashley Bemis, 28, San Juan Capistrano, pleaded guilty on March 1, 2019, to one felony count of grand theft, four fel...

            LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles man and his long-time girlfriend have been found guilty of racketeering conspiracy for collecting and storing extortionate “taxes” for the man's brother, an imprisoned Mexican Mafia member, and for acting as the brother's eyes and ears on the street, delive...

A former director of food services for the Los Angeles Unified School District pleaded guilty today to charges that he illegally approved contracts and forged a signature on a district application, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. David Glenn Binkle (2/28/62) entered h...