SACRAMENTO – Joining a coalition of 42 Attorneys General, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a $100 million multistate settlement against Citibank for fraudulent conduct involving the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). LIBOR is the rate at which ban...

Van Nuys woman who took a car with an 11-month-old baby boy aboard entered a plea in the case today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Kelly Kraetsch said Maria Elizabeth DeLaTorre (dob 11/21/93) pleaded no contest to one felony count of child a...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn today announced a new $50,000 reward in the brutal 1991 murders of California Department of Justice employee Marcy Jacobs, her husband Michael, and their nine-year-old daughter Jenny. The officials are...

SANTA ANA, California – Three additional doctors have been charged in three new cases for their roles in a 15-year-long health care fraud scheme that involved more than $40 million in illegal kickbacks paid to doctors and other medical professionals in exchange for referring thousands of patient...

An insurance adjuster has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison for his part in a staged auto collision ring in which 26 other defendants are charged, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Erwin Raul Mejia (dob 8/11/75) was given the combined sentence on June 8 a...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged today with carjacking, robbing, and assaulting a Lyft driver in Garden Grove. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Luis Alberto Zaragoza, 27, Garden Grove Charged today with the following felony counts: ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A jury recommended the death penalty today for a man convicted of murdering five Southern California women between 1986 and 1995. The Orange County District Attorney's Office is prosecuting a consolidated case on behalf of the Orange, Riverside, and San Diego County v...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in state prison yesterday for sexually assaulting two women in Irvine parking structures. Defendant Charges Sentence Gregory Thomas Ditto, 27, Temecula Pleaded guilty on June 11, 2018, to the followin...

Prosecutors today charged a 27-year-old man with murder in the fatal stabbing of a passenger on a Montebello transit bus after the victim died, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Manuel Ortiz Jr. (dob 9/16/90), aka Chubbs, of Montebello faces one felony count of murder i...

Two brothers were convicted yesterday afternoon of fatally beating their neighbor nearly three years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Tuesday, the jury found Flavio Macias Jr., 31, guilty of first-degree murder in case KA110524. Jurors also found true a special...

A man pleaded no contest today to killing a man who had arranged to sell a gold necklace to him in Montebello three years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Sean Matthew Garcia (dob 4/7/90) entered the plea to one felony count each of first-degree murder and second-...

Naum Morgovsky, 69, and Irina Morgovsky, 66, both of Hillsborough, California, pleaded guilty today for their respective roles in a scheme to export components for the production of night vision and thermal devices in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. Naum Morgovsky also pleaded guilty to...

LOS ANGELES – A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer for abusing a program that provided discounted homes to law enforcement officers and misleading an investigator during a background investigation for security clearance. Kanit Kunnaragthai, ...

A 33-year-old man accused of robbing a Venice convenience store was charged today with additional felonies, including attempted murder, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. In an amended criminal complaint, Redmond James O'Neal (dob 1/30/85) faces six felony counts: one co...

Federal authorities announced today a significant coordinated effort to disrupt Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes that are designed to intercept and hijack wire transfers from businesses and individuals, including many senior citizens.  Operation Wire Wire, a coordinated law enforcement eff...

A retired Los Angeles County sheriff's lieutenant has been charged with obstructing justice for allegedly tipping off a massage parlor employee about upcoming law enforcement raids in exchange for sexual favors or gifts, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. David Smith (do...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA), as part of the California Food, Drug, and Medical Device Task Force, comprised of 10 district attorneys' offices including Alameda, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Solano, and Sonoma Counties, along w...

A Burbank man was convicted today of trying to kill six Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and keeping a SWAT team at bay for nearly eight hours in 2016, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for about two hours before finding Juan Manuel Martinez (dob...

SACRAMENTO — California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced that he issued two cease and desist letters and has filed suit against two businesses that make and sell toddler formula, Nutraceutical Corp. and Graceleigh Inc., due to the discovery of dangerously elevated levels of lead in...

SANTA ANA, California – Two men from Orange County have been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a “builder bailout” mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in the fraudulent purchase of more than 100 condominium units around the country, causing more than $10 million in losses when the...

The United States filed a civil complaint to enjoin a California company from distributing hand sanitizer products that are unapproved new drugs, the Justice Department announced today. The complaint, filed June 6, 2018, seeks to enjoin defendants Innovative BioDefense, Inc., of Lake Forest, Cal...

A Los Angeles resident was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for two child exploitation offenses, including engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places and traveling in foreign commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Board of Parole Hearings, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, denied parole for seven years for a man who brutally sexually assaulted over a dozen women after breaking into their homes. Robin Dasenbrock, 53, is currently being held at Mule Creek State ...

Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott f...

LOS ANGELES – A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Santa Barbara County man to 246 months' incarceration for distribution of child pornography. Christopher Robin Coates, 43, of Carpinteria, met minors in online chat rooms dedicated to youths seeking father figures and manipulated them into sen...