The Department of Justice announced today that it will require The Walt Disney Company to divest 22 Regional Sports Networks (“RSNs”) as a condition of its $71.3 billion acquisition of certain assets from Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. The Justice Department's Antitrust Division filed a civil an...

Tokuo Tatai, an executive of Japan-based capacitor manufacturer Elna Co. Ltd., pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. A December 2016 indict...

A 77-year-old man was charged today with murdering a Long Beach fire captain and wounding two others after he allegedly set off an explosive device, causing a blaze at a senior housing complex where he lived, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Thomas Man Kim (dob 10/19/4...

SANTA ANA, California – Two men who participated in a series of armed bank robberies attributed to the “Bladed Bandit” because one of the robbers brandished a large knife each have pleaded guilty in federal court to multiple counts of armed robbery. Chad Dupape, 29, of Fountain Valley, and Vinc...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged today with pimping and pandering two women in Irvine after he had been released from custody on bail for vandalism. Defendant Charges ...

SANTA ANA, California – A disbarred California attorney who previously pleaded guilty in a mortgage modification scheme that defrauded about 75 distressed Orange County homeowners out of more than $1 million was sentenced today to four years in federal prison. Moses S. Hall, 63, a resident of B...

A man was charged today with fatally shooting a construction worker in Industry last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Elias Haro Rodriguez (dob 2/8/93) of Perris was charged in case KA118457 with one count of murder with the special allegation that he used a fire...

DRUNKEN DRIVER CONVICTED OF VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER OF TWO CHILDREN AND THEIR MOTHER BY CRASHING INTO THEM AS THEY CROSSED THE STREET SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver was convicted on Friday of the vehicular manslaughter of two children and their mother by crashing into ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A caretaker was convicted and sentenced to eight years and eight months in state prison today for stealing approximately $1 million from an 88-year-old man with dementia. Defendant Charges Court-Offered Sentence Ignacio Conlu Barandiaran, 36, Long Be...

LOS ANGELES – A Simi Valley man has pleaded guilty to impersonating a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations and, in that false persona, ordering a teenage boy out of a car before seizing and searching the minor's cellphones without permissi...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A licensed insurance agent was convicted today of a $1.6 million annuity fraud scheme targeting elderly Southern California residents. Defendant Charges Sentence (Court Offer) Mark Malatesta, 55...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the arrest of Richard Fazlollahi, a district manager with the California Department of Industrial Relations – Division of Occupational Safety & Health (Cal/OSHA), on bribery charges. Fazlollahi is alleged to have requested, a...

A homeless man pleaded no contest yesterday for three separate robberies in Santa Monica, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Keri Modder said Brian Noah Morgan (dob 4/1/93) entered the pleas for two counts each of attempted murder and second-degr...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former insurance agent was convicted and sentenced today to 15 years in state prison for defrauding approximately $2 million from his clients. Defendant Charges Court-Offered Sentence Brian Smart, 41, Lehi, UT Pleaded guilty today to the follow...

A 23-year-old man was sentenced today to eight years to life in state prison for slitting the throat of a tow truck driver attempting to fix a flat tire in Palmdale, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On May 3, a jury found Favian Eduardo Zayas (dob 11/12/94) of Lancaste...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted today of sexually assaulting and committing lewd acts on a 2-year-old girl. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Joseph Michael Hishmeh, 25, Garden Grove Found guilty by a jury today of the following felony...

A man was convicted today of torturing and killing his girlfriend in West Hollywood two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for less than a day before finding Blake Leibel (dob 5/8/81) guilty of one count each of first-degree murder, aggravat...

A 48-year-old man pleaded no contest today to assaulting his former girlfriend in front of their child in 2016, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Eduardo Marin pleaded no contest to four counts in case KA113767: attempted murder, assault wit...

A 27-year-old man pleaded guilty today to killing his friend nearly six months ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, David Kirk Vergara of Norwalk pleaded guilty to a felony count of involuntary manslaughter in case VA146859. Following the ...

LOS ANGELES – A former Los Angeles Police Department officer whose garage explosion revealed the makeshift lab where he used butane to extract hashish oil containing tetrahydrocannabinol, or “THC,” from marijuana plants, was sentenced to five years in federal prison. Joseph Jay Spadafore, 64, o...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former school bus driver was convicted of child abuse and endangerment for causing severe injuries to students by passing out behind the wheel and crashing into several trees. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Gerald Douglas Rupple,...

A former special agent for the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Division was convicted on June 15 after a jury in Sacramento, California found her guilty of filing false tax returns, obstruction of justice and stealing government money, announced Principal Deputy Assistant...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the arrest and arraignment of David William Reimers, 52, of El Dorado Hills in El Dorado County, on 126 felony charges involving financial fraud against numerous elderly victims. The Attorney General's complaint alleges that ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced 16 years to life in state prison today for the stabbing-murder of a man he met on Craigslist. Defendant Charges Sentence Adam Anthony Ingala-Whiting, 25, Oceanside ...

A 38-year-old man was sentenced today to 180 days in county jail for having child pornography on his computers and cell phones, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Robert Tamayo (dob 3/3/80) of Lancaster also was sentenced to formal probation for five years, ordered to re...