SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver was charged today with murder for killing a 6-year-old girl who was playing on a residential sidewalk in Fullerton when the defendant crashed into her. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Maximino Lagunas Delgado, 53, A...

LOS ANGELES – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced that special agents from the California Department of Justice's (Cal DOJ) Division of Law Enforcement removed 28 firearms from an individual who is legally barred from owning weapons and who is listed in the Armed Prohibited...

A 26-year-old Los Angeles man pleaded no contest today to one count of carjacking for taking an Uber driver's vehicle, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jamerious Hicks, aka Deveon Deonteray Wilson, also admitted an allegation of personal use of a deadly weapon in the p...

Today the Justice Department reached a settlement agreement with Atlantis Events, Inc., (Atlantis), a cruise and resort vacation company with offices in West Hollywood, California, to ensure that individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing are provided effective communication when travelling with...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced today that a Florida couple has been sentenced to two years in jail and ordered to pay back $69,609 in restitution after being indicted last October on multiple counts related t...

A 51-year-old man has been charged with committing more than twenty robberies in a span of seven months, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Michael Anthony Tapia (dob 12/9/66) of Pico Rivera has been charged with 25 felony counts in case KA117395: 24 counts of second-deg...

A 37-year-old gang member was sentenced today to death for murdering five people at a Long Beach homeless encampment in 2008, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. David Cruz Ponce was sentenced to death by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo. Ponce and...

A 54-year-old transient was charged yesterday with killing another in January, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jonathan Scott Marsh (dob 3/30/63) has been charged with one count of murder in case KA117372. The felony complaint includes a special allegation that the de...

A 29-year-old woman and her 32-year-old boyfriend both received life sentences yesterday for killing the woman's mother, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Angela Jordan said Troy Monroe Hill was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison without t...

A 30-year-old man was sentenced today to 25 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting another after a party in 2014, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Thearath Sam of Pomona pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder in cas...

LOS ANGELES – A federal Grand Jury has indicted Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba, 32, of Houston, Texas, on multiple counts of unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, unauthorized access to obtain information and aggravated identity theft for a multi-stage phishing attack on the Los Angeles County S...

SANTA ANA – A Sun Valley man was sentenced late Monday afternoon to 54 months imprisonment for his participation in a large-scale international identity theft scheme that fraudulently obtained tax refunds by using bogus Republic of Armenia passports and then engaged in money laundering of over $...

A 34-year-old Palmdale woman pleaded guilty today to the first-degree murder of her 8-year-old son five years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Pearl Sinthia Fernandez entered her plea to the murder count and admitted the special circumstance allegation of intentio...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged today with assault on peace officers for shooting at them from inside a patrol car with an unlawfully possessed police-issued rifle. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Stephen Eric Matthews, 33, Garden Grove ...

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California hosted a roundtable discussion yesterday on Sexual Harassment in Housing for community organizations, U.S. Attorney Nicola T. Hanna announced. The event included local legal services offices, fair housing organizati...

A 55-year-old man was sentenced today to 35 years to life in state prison for sexually assaulting a boy at gunpoint nearly 17 years ago in Northridge, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. A jury found Mirek Paul Voyt of Los Angeles guilty on Jan. 11 of two felony counts: k...

A 34-year-old woman pleaded no contest today to stabbing her boyfriend nearly two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Yvonne Marie Pina of Long Beach pleaded no contest to one count of voluntary manslaughter in case NA103701. The de...

A Van Nuys man pleaded no contest today to sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl who was lost at a mall, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Julie Kramer said Jorge Enrique Lopez Maza, 27, entered the plea to one count of lewd act upon a child and...

A pair of insurance agents are expected to be arraigned today on multiple felony charges in the alleged theft of more than $1.1 million from an elderly client, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Clement Lancelot Chichester (dob 10/26/49) and his wife, Brittney Jade Sias ...

SAN DIEGO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the indictment of four individuals on 194 criminal felony counts for allegedly operating a mortgage fraud scheme throughout Southern California. The scheme resulted in a loss of approximately $2 million for 40 victims who were seeki...

A 53-year-old man has been charged with having unlawful sexual intercourse with one of his former fifth-grade students, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Sean David Sigler (dob 8/13/64) of Burbank pleaded not guilty today to a total of 21 felony charges including: five ...

A 57-year-old man is scheduled to be arraigned today for allegedly operating a fraudulent immigration services business, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Augusto “Tito” Gonzalez De La Cruz (dob 8/19/60) faces 20 felony counts of grand theft. The charges include an alle...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to nine years in state prison today for attacking his wife with a meat cleaver after an argument in their Garden Grove aparctment. Defendant Charges Sentence Thang Van Nguyen, 48, Garden Grove Found guilty by a jury on Feb. 9,...

LOS ANGELES – United States Attorney Nicola T. Hanna announced today that his office collected $219,179,887 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, nearly $56 million was collected in criminal cases, and more than $163 million was collected in civil actions. The Unite...

FULLERTON, Calif. – A San Bernardino County man was sentenced to 20 years and eight months in state prison today for human trafficking, pimping, and pandering of several women. Defendant Charges Sentence Ronald Pre...