LOS ANGELES – Early Thursday morning, law enforcement authorities arrested an alleged gang member who had been a fugitive for nearly two years after the unsealing of a federal racketeering indictment that charges him in the attempted murder of an undercover Whittier Police Officer. Frankie Vasq...

A registered sex offender pleaded no contest yesterday to raping one teen and having unlawful sex with two others, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At Thursday's court appearance, Richie Esquivel Corvera, 30, of Whittier pleaded no contest to three felony counts in cas...

Rabobank National Association (Rabobank), a Roseville, California subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey T. Miller of the Southern District of California for impairing, impeding and obstructing its primary regulator, the ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver was charged today with murder for swerving onto the sidewalk and crashing into a family of four, killing the mother and injuring her husband and two teenage children. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Kamal Akwette At...

LOS ANGELES – Three Southern California men were arrested today pursuant to a federal grand jury indictment alleging they participated in an immigration fraud scheme that, among other things, illegally charged Mexican nationals thousands of dollars to obtain H-2A work visas and additional money ...

A man who tried to sexually assault a woman who was 93 years old at the time has been sentenced to 18 years in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Ted Noriega (dob 3/30/72) pleaded no contest yesterday to one felony count each of assault with intent to commi...

SACRAMENTO — California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced charges of extortion, money laundering, and identity theft against four defendants who are allegedly behind the exploitative website Mugshots.com. The website mines data from police and sheriffs' department websites to collec...

LOS ANGELES – A well-known commercial real estate developer was arrested this morning on federal bribery charges alleging that he paid monthly bribes to a Los Angeles County employee for six years and submitted offers to purchase the employee a Santa Rosa residence for nearly $1.1 million in exc...

LOS ANGELES – Agents and officers associated with an FBI-led task force late this afternoon arrested a Glendale Police officer on federal charges of making false statements during interviews with investigators who were probing his connections to the Mexican Mafia and Armenian organized crime. D...

A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Christopher Lischewski, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Bumble Bee Foods LLC, for participating in a conspiracy to fix prices for packaged seafood sold in the United States, the Department of Justice announced today. The indictment,...

LOS ANGELES – The United States has intervened in five “whistleblower” lawsuits that accuse Insys Therapeutics, Inc. of paying illegal kickbacks and defrauding federal health programs in connection with the marketing of Subsys, an opioid painkiller manufactured and sold by the Arizona-based comp...

SANTA ANA, California – A Missouri man who formerly served as a law enforcement reservist has pleaded guilty to a federal fraud offense and admitted operating a real estate scheme in Orange County that bilked dozens of Southern California investors who collectively suffered approximately $3.4 mi...

A man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in her Torrance home last month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Kenneth Collard (dob 10/9/66) was charged in case YA097891 with three counts of lewd act upon a child and one count of sexual penetratio...

LOS ANGELES – The owner of a business that operated parking lots has agreed to plead guilty in a 15-year bribery scheme that allowed him to defraud the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs out of more than $13 million that should have been paid in relation to the operation of parking facilities ...

A 19-year-old man was charged today with the shooting death of a man he dated and another man in Inglewood, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Jessica Tillson said Christian Francisco Veliz (dob 5/10/99) faces two counts of murder with a special ...

SAN DIEGO — After years of inaction by an international body responsible for protecting residents on both sides of the U.S. – Mexico border, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board today submitted to the United States Section of the Intern...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to life in state prison without the possibility of parole today for the special circumstances drive-by shooting murder of a man on the 91 Freeway. Defendant Charges Sentence David Arzate Cabrera, 49, Anaheim Found guilt...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to 26 years in state prison today for trafficking, pimping, and pandering a 16-year-old girl in Santa Ana. Defendant Charges Sentence Isaiah Rene Harris, 27, Hawthorne Pleaded guilty on April 6, 2018, to the following f...

A 25-year-old man was sentenced today to 15 years to life in state prison for killing an Uber driver in a hit-and-run crash in South Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. A jury convicted Kevin Moran (dob 1/19/93) of Los Angeles on March 13 of one felony count ...

A Long Beach man has been charged with fatally shooting two people, including his estranged wife, in a three-month span, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Miguel Angel Prieto (dob 11/14/74) has been charged with four felony counts in case KA117890: two counts of murder ...

The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement agreement with the University of California, San Diego.  The settlement resolves the Department's investigation into whether the University's Resource Management and Planning Vice Chancellor Area (RMP) discriminated against worke...

A Valencia couple have been charged in connection with an attempted bank robbery and the man is charged with a series of other bank robberies, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. James Lee Hamill (dob 2/4/91) and Samantha Yaworski (dob 8/23/95) each face one felony count ...

A man and a woman have been charged with taking thousands of dollars worth of perfumes and other products from a Burbank beauty salon, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Giovanni Antonio LopezValencia (dob 3/26/91) and Mariel Natalie Miranda Guerra (dob 10/15/84), ...

The United States filed civil complaints in Florida and California to enjoin two companies that purport to offer stem cell treatments, the Justice Department announced today. The first complaint, filed May 9, 2018, in the Southern District of Florida, is against US Stem Cell Clinic LLC, of Sunris...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the California Department of Consumer Affairs today announced new charges against Jeremy Daniel Griffin of West Hollywood. He faces 11 felony charges for impersonating a registered nurse in Los Angeles County after having pled no contest...