SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged with a hate crime for making white supremacist comments and throwing a cup at a Middle Eastern smoke shop manager in Anaheim. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Robert Kevin Pressler, 54, transient Charged on May ...

LOS ANGELES – A Korean national who was living in the United States as an illegal alien has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for participating in a scheme to defraud the United States by evading millions of dollars in federal excise taxes due on 143 million cigarettes. Un Hag Baeg,...

A member of the Du Roc Crips gang in Duarte was sentenced today to 332 years to life in state prison for his role in the shooting of seven bystanders in Pasadena, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Marquis Duran Turner (dob 4/12/89) of Apple Valley was convicted by a jur...

LOS ANGELES – A Romanian computer hacker who orchestrated a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the European servers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft was sentenced today to one year in federal prison. Calin Mateias, 38, of Romania, wa...

A retired Los Angeles police officer charged with workers' compensation fraud and related felonies is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Terry Johns (dob 2/25/62) of Corona faces three counts each of workers' compensation insurance fra...

LOS ANGELES – A now-defunct debt collection company that was based in Culver City was sentenced today for its role in a scheme that paid bribes to a public official in Arizona in exchange for confidential information that helped the company collect nearly $1 million in outstanding debts. Profes...

Visalia Police Det. Bill McGowen sat in the garage of the single-story home on West Kaweah Avenue and waited for the man who had stalked these streets for more than a year. That night in December 1975, McGowen watched as a shadowy figure prowled between the home he was hiding in and the house nex...

A 40-year-old man was sentenced today to 47 years and four months in state prison for trafficking a teenager and sexually abusing her, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On April 20, a jury found Jeffrey Floyd Beadle (dob 6/20/77) guilty of 11 felony counts in case NA105...

SANTA ANA, California – The CEO of an Irvine-based financial services and insurance company was arrested this morning on federal charges of defrauding about a dozen victims who thought their money was being invested in a certificate of deposit at a major bank. The scam allegedly run out of Five...

A 29-year-old man pleaded not guilty today to killing his girlfriend and shooting the couple's child in their home nearly two weeks ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Juan Antonio Rodriguez (dob 6/24/88) of Compton has been charged with four felony counts in case TA...

A man was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for murdering his father, stepmother and two half-brothers nearly 20 years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Saulo Alvarado (dob 6/19/82) was convicted last month of four counts of ...

A man was charged today with trying to coerce actor Kevin Hart to pay him for a video that was surreptitiously recorded last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jonathan Todd Jackson (dob 3/4/77), aka Action Jackson, was charged in case BA467710 with one count each ...

SANTA ANA – Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens today announced the arrest of 85 individuals; seizure of 36 firearms, including assault weapons; seizure of 14 pounds of methamphetamine and three pounds of heroin; and the recovery of two stolen vehicles, as pa...

A 46-year-old man pleaded not guilty today to inappropriately touching young girls for nearly three years, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Carlos Munguia (dob 11/25/71) has been charged with five misdemeanor counts of child molesting in case 8WC02322. Deputy District ...

LOS ANGELES – The owner of PRB Logics Corporation, an Orange County-based seller of electronic components, was arrested this morning on federal charges alleging he sold counterfeit integrated circuits, some of which could have been used in military applications. Rogelio Vasquez is charged in a ...

The Department of Justice today filed criminal charges against eleven different suspected members of the so-called “caravan” in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Califor...

A former television producer is scheduled in court today to face charges for the killing of her sister three years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Gretchen Ford said Jill Blackstone (dob 6/26/62) faces one felony count of murder and three...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A former church assistant was sentenced to 45 years to life in state prison on Friday for molesting two girls under the age of 14 after befriending their families through the church. Defendant Charges Sentence Branden Edward Shumate, 39, Koloa, Haw...

Panasonic Avionics Corporation (PAC), a subsidiary of multinational electronics company Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic), has agreed to pay a $137.4 million criminal penalty to resolve charges arising out of a scheme to retain consultants for improper purposes and conceal payments to third-party...

A 31-year-old Long Beach man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for kidnapping two teenage girls and raping a 20-year-old woman in assaults spanning a one-month period, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Samuel Alexander Vasquez ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A felon was sentenced to 11 years in state prison today for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl, who was waiting on a curb in line for Christmas presents at her elementary school. Defendant Charges Sentence Raul Adolfo   Marin Martin, 59, Santa An...

SANTA ANA, California – A previously convicted sex offender from Colorado has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a series of child exploitation charges after allegedly meeting a 15-year-old girl in Colorado, taking her on a 3½-month road trip that ended in Southern California, and producin...

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment that charges three individuals and two Inland Empire trucking companies in a scheme to defeat federal transportation laws that included an illegal repair of a gasoline tanker that resulted in a fatal explosion. The four-count indictm...

A man who allegedly drove his vehicle into a group of pedestrians in downtown Los Angeles has been charged with felony assault, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Ryad Boudghenestambo (dob 7/4/84) was charged yesterday afternoon with five counts of assault with a d...

A man and woman dubbed the “Discount Bitcoin Bandits” have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from people who sought to buy the cryptocurrency, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Precious Lanay Fitzgerald (dob 6/29/90) was initially charged with four c...