RIVERSIDE, California – A Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer who was a lieutenant assigned to investigate wrongdoing by inmates and officers at the Federal Correctional Complex, Victorville, has been arrested on federal charges alleging he took thousands of dollars in cash b...

CORRECTION: The next court date is for pretrial hearing. Six grand jury indictments unsealed today charge 31 alleged gang members with participating in a residential burglary ring that targeted dozens of elderly and Asian victims across the county, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Offic...

            RIVERSIDE, California – A federal grand jury today returned a 13-count indictment today against two men and a woman from Moreno Valley who allegedly committed at least eight armed robberies at AutoZone stores in the Inland Empire and made off with more than $11,000 in cash.           ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office and Newport Beach Police Department announced the arrest and filing of charges against a suspect in connection with a 1973 Newport Beach cold case murder at a joint press conference! today. Newport Beach Police Chief Jon T. Lewis an...

A man has been charged with killing an 11-year-old boy who disappeared while walking home from an Inglewood elementary school nearly 30 years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Edward Donell Thomas (dob 7/10/68) of Pomona was charged yesterday in case BA475163...

            LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities today arrested one of two defendants charged in a federal indictment with making false threats of violent attacks at many locations – including Los Angeles International Airport and numerous Southern California school districts – and staging attacks o...

A 47-year-old man was charged today with killing three men at a bowling alley in Torrance last month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney John Chang said Reginald Leander Wallace (dob 6/13/71) of Los Angeles faces three counts of murder, four coun...

LOS ANGELES – A California lawyer and former Rialto police officer was indicted today by a federal grand jury after he was found with a fake FBI credential, a hand grenade, silencers and several illegal firearms, including a loaded AR-type semiautomatic rifle. Sergio Lopez de Tirado, 43, of Coron...

A 57-year-old transient was sentenced today to nine years in state prison for trying to kill a Russian tourist and attacking his family at Hollywood & Highland in 2015, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Donald Offerman pleaded no contest to one count each of attempted m...

SANTA ANA, California – A former employee of Fannie Mae in Irvine has been found guilty of federal fraud charges related to bribes and kickbacks she took from brokers in exchange for Fannie Mae real estate listings and her approval of discounted sales of Fannie Mae-owned properties.             S...

            LOS ANGELES – A former cheerleading coach has been found guilty of two federal felony charges for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman on a cruise ship bound from Long Beach to Ensenada, Mexico during the summer of 2015.             Anthony Paul De La Torriente, 30, of Simi Valley...

            LOS ANGELES – A former accounting manager who is facing 10 wire fraud counts for allegedly embezzling more than $36 million from his employer's client and then using the bulk of the ill-gotten funds to pay off tens of millions of dollars of his credit card debt has been extradited to ...

            LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement authorities this morning arrested 25 members and associates of the San Fernando Valley-based Vineland Boys street gang who are charged in five federal grand jury indictments that allege a wide range of criminal activity, including shootings and assaults t...

            LOS ANGELES – A Torrance man who led a drug ring that used couriers to traffic hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Mexico into the United States and Canada has been sentenced to 135 months in prison on federal felony drug- and money laundering-related charges.             Richard Manue...

            LOS ANGELES – Authorities have arrested 11 members and associates of the South Los Angeles-based Florencia-13 (F13) street gang on federal racketeering, narcotics and firearms charges. One of the indictments unsealed today alleges that defendants linked to the gang trafficked methamph...

            LOS ANGELES – A precious metals trader based in the Los Angeles Jewelry District pleaded guilty today to a money laundering charge after being caught in an undercover operation where he agreed to conceal what was described to him as more than $200,000 in drug trafficking proceeds.    ...

A Fullerton man has pleaded no contest to stalking singer Rihanna when he broke into her Hollywood Hills home last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Eduardo Leon (dob 8/30/91) entered his plea late yesterday to one felony count each of stalking and vandalism...

A 25-year-old man has been found guilty of brutally stabbing his 18-year-old girlfriend in Temple City two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. A jury found Matthew Fay Echauri of Arcadia guilty late yesterday of four felony counts: one count each of attem...

            LOS ANGELES – Four companies and three individuals have agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges related to the illegal importation and sale of $11 million worth of pharmaceutical-grade erectile dysfunction drugs that were falsely marketed as herbal remedies for men.        ...

LOS ANGELES – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisory officer has been arrested on federal charges alleging that he engaged in the business of unlawfully selling firearms without a license and sold an illegal short-barreled rifle to an undercover investigator.             Wei Xu, 56, of ...

            SANTA ANA, California – A San Bernardino County man who participated in a series of armed robberies attributed to the “White Glove Bandits” – because the thieves wore white, latex gloves in some of the robberies – was sentenced today to nearly 17 years in federal prison.             S...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced today that direct marketing company Guthy-Renker LLC has agreed to pay $8.5 million and change its sales practices to settle a civil lawsuit alleging unlawful automatic payment renewals. “As new technologies are changing the consumer env...

LOS ANGELES – An East West Bank branch manager who conspired to launder over $25,000 in cash by converting the currency into cashier's checks was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison. Vivian Tat, 54, of Hacienda Heights, who is a vice president at East West Bank currently on administrat...

WASHINGTON – A Los Angeles, California-based dentist pleaded guilty on Thursday to a March 2018 indictment charging him with health care fraud arising from his false and fraudulent billings for crowns and fillings, which were never provided to patients.  Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczk...

            SANTA ANA, California – Following the arrests this morning of three defendants who allegedly operated “birth tourism” outfits that catered to Chinese clients, federal authorities today unsealed indictments that charge a total of 19 people linked to three schemes that operated across S...