SANTA ANA, California – A former member of the Planning Commission for the City of Westminster was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for taking a $15,000 bribe to help a person obtain a liquor license. Dave Vo, 43, of Westminster, was sentenced by United States District Judge James...

A disbarred attorney was convicted today of stealing thousands of dollars from clients over a span of two years, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At a court appearance this morning, James Patrick Stoneman (dob 9/21/52) of Claremont pleaded no contest to three misdemean...

A La Puente man was charged today with setting fires at multiple houses of worship, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Christian Michael Garcia (dob 7/28/92) faces 20 felony counts: 13 counts of vandalism of religious property; three counts of arson of a structure; two c...

A 23-year-old man was found guilty today of killing a mother and her young daughter outside their home in Long Beach two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for about an hour before finding Brandon Ivan Colbert guilty of two counts of firstde...

A 27-year-old man was sentenced yesterday to 23 years to life in state prison for sexually abusing a young female family member, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Deputy District Attorney Myle Phan said Adam Anthony Orona (dob 2/22/90) of Lancaster pleaded no cont...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that defendant Mark Feigin has pled to two misdemeanor charges involving harassing electronic communication to an Islamic center and attempts to dissuade a law enforcement officer from testifying against him. The defendant entered ...

A Santa Clarita man has been sentenced to 13 years and eight months in state prison for purposely driving a pickup truck off a cliff with his 68-year-old father aboard, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Deputy District Attorney Emily Cole said Sean McClelland (dob...

The Department of Justice today filed a Statement of Interest in Young America's Foundation and Berkeley College Republicans v. Janet Napolitano. The plaintiffs, Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) and Young America's Foundation (YAF), allege that the University of California, Berkeley, enforced a...

LOS ANGELES – A Riverside woman who was the controller at a Fontana-based metal forging company was sentenced this morning to one year and one day in federal prison for embezzling more than $1.5 million from her employer. Jacquelin Dyer, 68, who was the controller and co-general manager at Paci...

Drs. Aytac Apaydin and Stephen Worsham, urologists based in Northern California, will pay $1.085 million to resolve allegations that they submitted and caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) that was referred and billed in violation of the phys...

LOS ANGELES – A Monterey Park man has been sentenced to five months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a smuggling charge stemming from the seizure of three king cobras hidden in potato chip canisters. Rodrigo Franco, 35, was sentenced Monday morning by United States District Judge Geor...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted today of special circumstances murder for the drive-by shooting of a man on the 91 Freeway. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date David Arzate Cabrera, 49, Anaheim Found guilty by a jury today of the following felo...

LOS ANGELES – A federal jury has convicted a Monrovia man for his role in an international money laundering organization that conspired to move millions of dollars in proceeds for narcotics traffickers that included the Sinaloa Cartel. Harinder Singh, 32, who also goes by “Sonu,” was found guil...

LOS ANGELES – A former employee of the Glendale City Attorney's Office has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after she admitted embezzling nearly $700,000 in a scheme that used false documents to make it appear the money was being used to pay civil claims against the city. Cassandra...

Federal authorities arrested Yi-Chi Shih, 62, and Kiet Ahn Mai, 63, on Jan. 19, on federal charges that allege a scheme to illegally obtain technology and integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to a Chinese company without the required export license. The announcement w...

A homeless man who lived in West Hollywood was sentenced today to 15 years to life in state prison for the murder of a 28-year-old woman whose body was found in a trash dumpster, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney David Berger said Abdulla Tario ...

A 58-year-old man was sentenced today to more than four decades in state prison for molesting five boys between 2000 and 2007, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Amador Valencia Santos was sentenced to 47 years and four months to life in prison by Los Angeles County Supe...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison on Friday for murdering a mother of three after driving into oncoming traffic and crashing head-on into her minivan in Mission Viejo. Defendant Charges Sentence William Joseph Carroll...

Scripps Health (Scripps), a health care system based in San Diego, California, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by charging federal health care programs for physical therapy services that were rendered by therapists who did not have billi...

A woman and man who led police on a lengthy pursuit that ended in Montebello were sentenced to prison today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Trisha Marie Martinez, 24, pleaded no contest to three counts in case VA146661: driving or taking ...

LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities this morning arrested two local men on federal charges that allege a scheme to illegally obtain technology and integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to a Chinese company without the required export license. Yi-Chi Shih, 62, an electr...

A former Olympic gold medalist and youth boxing coach is scheduled to be arraigned today on charges that he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Paul Gonzales (dob 4/18/64) is expected to be arraigned in Department 30 of the...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged with hate crimes and arraigned today for yelling racial slurs at gym employees and spitting on a Brea Police Department (BPD) officer. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Erik Lee Overturf, 33, La Habra Charged tod...

LOS ANGELES – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced today that Jeong Kim, the owner and operator of Fashion Q and Q retail clothing stores throughout Southern California, was sentenced to two years in prison for sales tax evasion, false income tax returns, failure to pay taxes and ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former classmate of 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein was charged today with murdering the victim and burying his body in a shallow grave in Borrego Park in Lake Forest. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, Newpo...