LOS ANGELES – A Riverside man who sold a powerful synthetic opioid very similar to fentanyl to a friend – who then suffered a fatal overdose from the drug – was sentenced today to 312 months in federal prison. Adam Scott Caward, 33, received the 26-year sentence from United States District Judg...

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury yesterday named a Burbank teacher in a criminal indictment that accuses him of sexually exploiting a fifteen-year-old former student for purposes of producing child pornography images of the minor. Sean David Sigler, 53, of Burbank – who previously taught fift...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in state prison today for kidnapping his associate during a drug deal in Newport Beach. Defendant Charges Sentence Nicholas Andres Hernandez, 30, Murrieta Pleaded guilty today to the following ...

Four men have been charged with killing a man and dumping his body in a canyon on Monday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Hercules Dimitrios Balaskas (dob 5/8/99), Matthew Martin Capiendo Luzon (dob 10/10/96), Francisco Amigon (dob 1/23/99) and Jacob Hunter Elmendorf ...

SACRAMENTO – Leading a coalition of eight Attorneys General and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its f...

A jury found a Gardena man guilty today of sexually assaulting and suffocating a woman and raping three others, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Kevon Takashi Ross, 33, was convicted of 25 felony counts in case YA093449: one count each of firstdegree murder and sodomy ...

A federal court enjoined Michel G. Blanchet of Los Angeles, California, from preparing, processing, and distributing adulterated fish or fishery products without first taking required remedial action, the Department of Justice announced today. The injunction ordered by the U.S. District Court for...

SACRAMENTO – Joining the Attorneys General of New York and Maryland, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its decision to suspend critical safeguards for agricultural workers. The Agricultural Worker Protectio...

Karim Baratov, aka Kay, aka Karim Taloverov, aka Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, 23, was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a fine, which encompasses all of his remaining assets. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse for the...

A convicted felon serving a life sentence for a 2007 murder pleaded guilty today to committing three additional murders in 2004, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Gilton Pitre (dob 5/4/72) entered his plea to three counts of first-degree murder and admitted two special ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – A company and two of its supervisors pleaded nolo contendere today for violating scaffolding laws near high voltage power lines that killed one employee and injured another at Mission Viejo High School. Defendant Charges Sentence ...

A woman is facing capital murder charges for the slayings of three people earlier this week in Leimert Park, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Nancy Amelia Jackson (7/7/62) was charged in case BA468363 with three counts of murder along with the special circumstance alle...

LOS ANGELES – The United States this week filed an asset forfeiture complaint against an ancient mosaic depicting Hercules, believed to have been made in the 3rd or 4thCentury, that likely was looted from war-torn Syria, allegedly illegally imported into the United States, and seized by the Fede...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man identified through a DNA hit was convicted yesterday of robbing, kidnapping, and sexually assaulting a store employee in 2012. Defendant Charges Sentence Danny Thien Nguyen, 28, Garden Grove Pleaded guilty yesterday, May 24, 2018, to one fe...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A former California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer was sentenced to 30 days in jail for embezzling funds from a CHP employee club of which he was the president. Defendant Charges Sentence Mark Matthew Linza, 41, Huntington Beach Pleaded guilty to...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver was charged yesterday with assaulting two Fountain Valley police officers after speeding through a roadblock and attempting to hit the officers with his car. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Matthew Snoyman, 34, West...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a $3,318,700 settlement with Cox CommunicationsCalifornia, LLC (Cox) and other related entities to resolve allegations that its California facilities unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste – including hazardous batteries, ele...

A woman who allegedly ran a fraudulent immigration services business was charged today with 21 additional felony counts after investigators discovered new victims, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Dalila Moreno (dob 11/23/54) already faced 17 felony counts involving 13...

LOS ANGELES – More than 500 law enforcement personnel executed a major operation this morning, taking into custody 32 defendants who are charged in two federal racketeering indictments, one of which outlines how members of the Mexican Mafia were able to control drug smuggling, narcotics sales a...

Following a two-week trial, a federal jury in Denver, Colorado, has convicted a California man of multiple charges for his role in an investment scheme in which he falsely told investors that he was a billionaire who could access certain financing, including hundreds of millions in cash in an ove...

LOS ANGELES – A local man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to unlawfully import Asian songbirds from Vietnam to the United States. Sony Dong, 56, of Westminster, was sentenced Monday morning by United States District Judge S. James Otero, who immediately remanded...

A former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant pleaded guilty today to seeking and receiving a bribe from an Afghan contractor while serving in Afghanistan.  The sergeant worked at the Humanitarian Aid Yard (HA Yard) at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan and was involved in the issuance of contracts to reple...

LOS ANGELES – Five people linked to two San Fernando Valley clinics were arrested this morning on federal health care fraud charges for allegedly participating in a scheme that submitted fraudulent claims to health insurance companies and used some of the fraud proceeds to provide patients with ...

LOS ANGELES – A former Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to 320 months in federal prison for participating in a federal drug trafficking conspiracy that imported acetylfentanyl, a drug very similar to fentanyl, a powerful and highly addictive opioid. Acetylfentanyl, which is five times mor...

LOS ANGELES – An individual who impersonated an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) Agent and who possessed multiple destructive devices was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison. Matthew Ryan Johnston, 26 of Fontana, was sentenced by United States District Judge Percy Anderson...