SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined a bipartisan group of 18 state attorneys general in urging Congress to advance legislation that will enable the cannabis industry to participate in the banking system in states that have legalized medicinal or adult use of canna...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that defendants Quinton Brown and Gerald Turner have pled guilty to multiple felony charges of sex trafficking of a minor.  The defendants entered guilty pleas in Tulare County Superior Court. Under the terms of the plea agreement,...

A Los Angeles man was charged today with special circumstance murder and other counts in connection with a fatal stabbing and fire, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Kevyn Ramirez (dob 5/21/88) is expected to be arraigned today in Department 30 of the Foltz Criminal Jus...

The Department of Justice today filed a notice of appeal in The Regents of the University of California and Janet Napolitano v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Elaine Duke seeking review before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Department also intends later this week t...

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles County deputy sheriff who allegedly agreed on two occasions to oversee the delivery of narcotics and other contraband in exchange for cash payments was arrested this morning, along with three other men, on federal narcotics charges. Special agents with the Federal Bu...

A Los Angeles woman pleaded not guilty today to 17 felony counts for allegedly operating a fraudulent immigration services business, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Dalila Moreno (dob 11/23/54) faces charges of grand theft of personal property, forgery, counterfeit seal an...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to 16 years in state prison today for using Facebook in an attempt to recruit an undercover officer posing as an underage teenage girl to work for him as a prostitute. Defendant Charges Sentence ...

LOS ANGELES – A former contract officer with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs was charged today with filing a false federal tax return and lying to VA investigators when he denied taking bribes from the operator of parking lots at the VA's Los Angeles medical campuses. Ralph Til...

SANTA ANA, California – Three Southern California men have been indicted on federal mail fraud charges that allege they solicited homeowners on the verge of foreclosure with bogus promises of loan modifications with interest rates as low as 2 percent. The three men charged – Michael Paul Paquet...

SANTA ANA, California – A federal judge today sentenced the former owner of Pacific Hospital in Long Beach to 63 months in prison for overseeing a 15-year-long health care fraud scheme that involved more than $40 million in illegal kickbacks paid to doctors and other medical professionals in exc...

Marchello Dsaun McCain, a convicted violent felon and the brother of Douglas McCain, the first known American who died fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), was sentenced in federal court today to 10 years in prison for his illegal possession of a cache of firearms and body a...

LOS ANGELES – A Connecticut man was charged today in federal court with a felony computer hacking offense related to a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to over 250 Apple iCloud accounts, many of which belonged to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. George Garofano,...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a $102 million settlement with BP Energy Company and affiliates (BP) over allegations that it intentionally overcharged the State of California for natural gas that the State purchased under three successive contracts from Ma...

A 60-year-old man pleaded no contest today to stealing from his client's work-related civil settlement in 2014, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At Tuesday's court appearance, Mark Haddon of La Verne pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor counts in case KA116294: gran...

Sinaloa Cartel cell leader Damaso Lopez-Serrano aka “Mini Lic,” pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances for purpose of unlawful importation following his self-surrender to U.S. law enforcement authorities at the Calexico West, Mexico Port of Entry o...

A 21-year-old man pleaded not guilty today to attacking an officer at a fast-food restaurant Monday morning, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Donald Chinchilla (dob 4/4/96) has been charged with one count of deliberate, premediated, attempted murder of a peace officer ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A homeless man living on the Santa Ana River Trail (SART) in Orange was charged yesterday with possessing two firearms and two boxes of ammunition. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Jeffrey Richard Lundell, 47, Santa Ana Charged y...

LOS ANGELES – A La Crescenta man was sentenced today to nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges stemming from two schemes – one that bilked a string of payroll companies, and a second involving fraudulent bills sent to entities ranging from small businesses to...

Just before George Vasquez was scheduled to get out of prison, Los Angeles County prosecutors made a plea to the court: Don't let him free — he's too dangerous to live in public. While in his early 20s, Vasquez had lured young boys from his South L.A. neighborhood to a spot near an alleyway with ...

Authorities are searching for more possible victims in connection with an Olympic gold medalist and boxing coach accused of committing lewd acts on a child. Los Angeles County prosecutors this week charged Paul Gonzales, 53, with eight felony counts, including four counts of lewd acts on a child ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A third striker was charged yesterday with robbing nine retail clerks in South Orange County and attempting to rob a 10th in a period of five weeks. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Mathew Scott Rendon, 36, Mission Viejo C...

A Palmdale man entered a no contest plea today for the death of his girlfriend after she jumped out of a moving vehicle during a domestic violence attack, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Illions said Bryan McKim, 58, entered the plea t...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to life in state prison without the possibility of parole today for kidnapping, forcibly raping, and sodomizing a 14-year-old girl and attempting to kidnap three other victims ages 11 to 16 with the intent to commit sex offenses. Defendant Char...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged with arson and assaulting a peace officer after throwing flaming towels at an Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) substation in Stanton and ramming into an OCSD patrol vehicle. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date ...

A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, California, charging him with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and distribution of information re...