A paralegal specialist for the San Diego Division of the FBI pleaded guilty today to embezzling nearly $160,000 in government funds, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge James K. Cheng of the Departmen...

LOS ANGELES – A Monterey Park woman has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for injecting a woman with a foreign substance for the purpose of buttock enhancement. Ana Bertha Diaz Hernandez, 47, was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez. In addition to th...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for lewd acts on children and possession of child pornography after posing as a teen boy and soliciting nude images of young girls on social media. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Eddie Jo...

LOS ANGELES – A lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department was taken into custody this morning on federal charges related to the illegal sale of approximately 100 firearms. Vasken Kenneth Gourdikian, 48, of Sierra Madre, who is currently on administrative leave, self-surrendered this morning ...

A Los Angeles man pleaded no contest today in the beating of a transgender woman in Hollywood, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Nicol Shakhnazaryan (dob 5/11/92) was convicted of one felony count of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury in the...

LOS ANGELES – A former staffer for a Member of the United States Congress was found guilty today of bribery and attempted extortion after demanding and accepting $5,000 to prevent the closure of a marijuana shop in the City of Compton. Michael Kimbrew, 44, of Carson, was convicted by a federal ...

A woman, her boyfriend and mother have been charged in connection with the hit-and-run death of a 62-year-old man four years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Brittnee Monique Crawford (dob 9/11/90) faces one felony count each of vehicular manslaughter with an alle...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) is seeking the public's help identifying any additional information on two men who were charged with stealing cars, jewelry, and luxury merchandise in a massive credit card fraud scheme with over $1.5 million in losses. ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged yesterday with murder for stabbing his acquaintance during a dispute in Costa Mesa. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Jasper Bear Belknap, 21, Azusa Charged on Feb. 27, 2018, with the following: O...

A Winnetka man has been sentenced to 22 years in state prison in connection with the kidnapping and shooting of Joel Keith Ravin, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Randall Elmer Stinson, 32, was sentenced yesterday after pleading no contest Jan. 25 to one count of attem...

LOS ANGELES – Two doctors were arrested this morning on federal fraud charges stemming from more than $250 million in allegedly fraudulent bills related to the 1-800-GET-THIN Lap-Band surgery business. Julian Omidi, 49, of West Hollywood, and Mirali Zarrabi, 55, of Beverly Hills, were arrested ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A third-striker parolee was charged today with aggravated assault on a peace officer and carjacking after initiating a pursuit and injuring the K9 that apprehended him. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Antonio Padilla Jr., 37, Palm D...

Two Los Angeles Police Department officers were sentenced today to 25 years in prison after pleading no contest to sexually assaulting four women, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. James Nichols, 46, and Luis Valenzuela, 45, pleaded no contest to two counts each of forc...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Fullerton police officer was sentenced to 30 days in jail yesterday for using excessive use of force and writing a false police report while on duty. Defendant Charges Sentence Miguel S...

A 44-year-old man who posed as a rideshare driver has been charged with raping seven women in a span of 15 months, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Nicolas Morales (dob 1/16/74) of Santa Clarita has been charged with 27 felony counts in case GA102960: nine counts of fo...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A transient woman was charged yesterday with kidnapping a 12-year-old girl as she walked to school in Santa Ana. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Claudia Hernandez, 34, transient Charged on Feb. 22, 2018, with the following felon...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to face trial on Monday for the 1974 cold case murder of a 30-year-old female stranger in her La Palma apartment. Defendant Felony Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Larry Clark Stephens, 68, Santa Rosa Charged on June 2, ...

FRESNO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the arraignment of three individuals who were arrested for possession of 29 pounds of methamphetamine, one and a quarter pounds of heroin, as well as one loaded handgun. The narcotics are believed to have been imported from Mexic...

The United States has filed a complaint in intervention against Diabetic Care Rx LLC d/b/a Patient Care America (PCA), a compounding pharmacy located in Pompano Beach, Florida, alleging that the pharmacy paid illegal kickbacks to induce prescriptions for compounded drugs reimbursed by TRICARE, th...

LOS ANGELES – Two men have been arrested on charges of scheming to avoid the payment of federal excise taxes on duty-free cigarettes that should have been sent abroad, but instead were diverted to local retail outlets. Yong “David” Lu, 54, of Arcadia, and Wenzhu Guo, also 54, of Monterey Park, ...

SANTA ANA, California – A federal judge has convicted a Los Angeles man of three counts of aggravated identity theft for using the secret codes of elderly Bank of America customers to make fraudulent withdrawals at ATMs in Los Angeles and Orange County. In a written order issued yesterday, Dani...

LOS ANGELES – A medical doctor was arrested this morning on federal charges of illegally selling prescriptions without a legitimate medical purpose to undercover operatives who visited the physician's Victorville medical office. Wendell Mark Street, 66, of Las Vegas, was arrested this morning w...

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today filed denaturalization lawsuits against five individuals who, according to the Department's complaints, unlawfully procured their United States citizenship by concealing their sexual abuse of minor victims during the naturalization process. The civil c...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the arrest and filing of felony charges against five individuals for the misuse of public funds amidst widespread corruption at the Panoche Water District (PWD) in the Central Valley. The scheme resulted in an estimated loss of ove...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) Tony Rackauckas filed a civil lawsuit yesterday, Feb. 20, 2018, against a family of companies and their officers for failing to pay over $200,000 in prevailing wages and taxes on a project at the Orange County Fairgrounds. AWI Builders, I...