An East Los Angeles woman was sentenced today to nine years in county jail for defrauding more than 30 people through her home-based immigration services business, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David M. Horwitz also ordered Da...

Prosecutors filed charges today against a transient who allegedly pushed a pedestrian in front of a truck and attacked two other people in separate incidents this week in downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Garrett Joseph Boldt (dob 1/1/77) was charg...

SANTA ANA, California – A federal grand jury has charged a tax lawyer in a three-count indictment that alleges she attempted to obstruct a federal investigation into millions of dollars in refunds claimed in tax returns prepared by her accounting firm. Margaret Quick, 63, a former resident of New...

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today named a Hawthorne man in a 14-count indictment that alleges he intentionally drove his family into the water at the Port of Los Angeles in a scheme to collect proceeds of life insurance policies he had purchased on their lives. Ali F. Elmezayen, 44, was ch...

LOS ANGELES  – Authorities have arrested eight members and associates of the East Side Torrance street gang on federal narcotics trafficking and firearms charges stemming from an investigation that led to a number of seizures, including 20 pounds of methamphetamine that was discovered in a Torran...

LOS ANGELES – A Hawthorne man is due in court this afternoon after being arrested last week on federal charges that allege he intentionally drove his domestic partner and two severely autistic children off a pier into the ocean to collect proceeds on accidental death insurance policies he had pur...

LOS ANGELES – A West Hollywood man was taken into federal custody today in relation to new fraud charges that alleged he participated in a series of scams while free on bond and after pleaded guilty in a prior federal case. Jeffrey Craig Yohai, 36, who is the former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, w...

SANTA ANA, California – A Fullerton man was arrested this morning after being named in a federal grand jury indictment that accuses him of illegally importing and selling erectile dysfunction drugs that he falsely marketed as herbal supplements for men. Nam Hyun Lee, 60, who is sometimes known as...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the arrest of Joseph Deliman, for allegedly embezzling more than $80,000 from the Merced Police Officers' Association (MPOA) over a three-year period. While serving on the MPOA Board, Deliman allegedly utilized MPOA funds for personal exp...

LOS ANGELES – A prominent member of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) – who was found guilty by a jury last year of three counts of distribution of crack cocaine, which included him selling crack cocaine near schools – has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison. Marquis Shaw, als...

A high school teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Kelly Kelley said Andrew Bueno-Potts (dob 8/20/75) of Long Beach faces one felony count each of sodomy by intoxication, sodomy o...

LOS ANGELES – Four Southern California men who allegedly are members of a white supremacy extremist group have been named in a federal criminal complaint that charges them of travelling to political rallies across California, where they violently attacked counter-protesters, journalists and a pol...

LOS ANGELES – A Houston man who was arrested earlier this month in Texas is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on federal fraud and identity theft charges that allege a scheme to manufacture counterfeit Mesa Airlines employee identification badges that were used to obtain free flights on an...

Jeffrey White, 60, and Nicholas White, 33, both of Twin Peaks, California, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to conspiring to defraud Affordable Care Act programs in at least 12 states of more than $27 million. U.S. Attorney John H. Durham of the District of Connecticut, Special Agen...

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal charges of hacking into email and social media accounts to obtain nude photographs of women and then threating to publish the nude photos unless victims provided him with additional explicit pictures. Richard Gregory Bauer, ...

A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man in the parking lot of the Rose Bowl, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Miguel Castaneda (dob 7/24/95) of Los Angeles faces one count of murder with an allegation of using a kni...

A woman who was already facing domestic violence-related charges has been charged in an attack that occurred last month at a Hollywood bar, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Eduarda DeCastro (dob 10/19/91), a Brazilian national, was charged yesterday in an amended compl...

LOS ANGELES – United States Attorney Nick Hanna and FBI Assistant Director in Charge Paul D. Delacourt today announced a series of child exploitation cases involving the victimization of minors through crimes that include the production of child pornography. FBI agents on Thursday arrested two de...

LOS ANGELES – A Van Nuys man has been arrested on federal charges that he sold the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl to a 23-year-old victim, who then suffered a fatal overdose. James Dorion Rodriguez, 27, was arrested Wednesday afternoon at a motel in Mission Hills. Rodriguez was taken into cus...

LOS ANGELES – HealthCare Partners Holdings LLC, doing business as DaVita Medical Holdings LLC, has agreed to pay $270 million to resolve its False Claims Act liability for providing inaccurate information that caused Medicare Advantage Plans to receive inflated Medicare payments, the Justice Depa...

A man was charged today with allegedly targeting and burglarizing the homes of celebrities, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Tyress Williams (dob 8/3/99) of Los Angeles faces four felony counts of first-degree residential burglary, according to the criminal complaint i...

A Compton man was charged today with killing his 65-year-old stepfather and his 13-year-old stepsister, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jaime Jajuan Williams (dob 8/5/75) of Compton faces two counts of murder with a special circumstance allegation of multiple murders ...

Four California men, who flew from the west coast for the August 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville to engage in violent behavior, have been arrested on federal criminal complaints and charged with violating the federal riots statute and conspiracy. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cul...

SANTA ANA, California – A Chinese national who pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that illegally exported sensitive space communications technology to China was sentenced today to serve 46 months in federal prison. Si Chen, 33, a Pomona resident who has been in custody since her arrest i...

LOS ANGELES – Federal tax authorities this morning arrested an attorney on bank fraud charges for allegedly depositing a stolen U.S. Treasury check for just over $1 million. Thaddeus James Culpepper, 44, of South Los Angeles, was arrested this morning at his residence without incident by special ...