SANTA ANA, California – An attorney who lives in El Monte pleaded guilty today to federal fraud and money laundering charges for participating in a multi-faceted scheme that collected more than $50 million from foreign investors seeking “Green Cards” through the EB-5 visa program. Victoria Chan [...

A 38-year-old man was sentenced today to 16 years and four months in state prison for forcing his exgirlfriend into a car, assaulting her and threatening to kill her in May, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Aug. 31, a jury found Alberto Casillas guilty of three felo...

The alleged mastermind behind a five-day, email-phishing attack targeting Los Angeles County Superior Court email accounts was arrested in Houston last week following a criminal investigation by the District Attorney's Cyber Investigation Response Team. Deputy District Attorney Donn Hoffman of th...

SANTA ANA, Calif.  – A man was convicted and sentenced to three years in state prison today for abusing a 73-year-old elderly woman, committing multiple forgeries, and stealing over $75,000 from the victim. Defendant Charges Sentence William Marion “James” Carter, 67, R...

SACRAMENTO – Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley today announced a settlement with DIRECTV to resolve allegations that its California facilities unlawfully disposed of large volumes of hazardous waste – including hazardous batteries, electronic d...

SANTA BARBARA — California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a $2 million settlement with Cottage Health System and its affiliated hospitals in California resolving allegations that they failed to implement basic, reasonable safeguards to protect patient medical information in viola...

LOS ANGELES – A Norwalk man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for using the internet as part of his efforts to solicit a 15-year-old girl to have sex. Mauricio Edgardo Estrada, 29, who at the time of the offense was a police officer with the Los Angeles Unified School District,...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted and found legally sane today in the special circumstances murder and attempted murder of members of his ex-girlfriend's family. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Alwyn Gibson, 32, Costa Mesa Found guilty by a j...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged with battery and attempted vandalism for ejaculating multiple times into his female coworker's water bottles, putting semen into her honey jar, and smearing semen on her computer mouse and keyboard. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Cour...

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury has charged a San Pedro man with threatening to murder United States Representative Maxine Waters in a phone call to her Capitol Hill office last month. Anthony Scott Lloyd, 44, was charged with one count of threatening a United States official in an indictment ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced on Friday to six years in state prison for assaulting an on-duty Huntington Beach Police Department (HBPD) officer by knocking the officer to the ground and repeatedly hitting and kicking him. Defendant Charges Sentence Darryl Kei...

A 23-year-old man was charged today with stealing diapers from a several stores and leading police on a pursuit, resulting in the injury of a child, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Darrion Tyrone Parker (dob 3/25/94) of Los Angeles pleaded not guilty to eight felony c...

LOS ANGELES – Four San Diego-area nursing homes owned by Los Angeles-based Brius Management Co. have agreed to pay as much as $6.9 million to resolve civil allegations that their employees paid kickbacks for patient referrals and submitted fraudulent bills to government health care programs. Th...

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury has returned a new indictment in a racketeering case targeting the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) street gang that adds a murder charge stemming from a previously unsolved 2012 homicide, Acting United States Attorney Sandra R. Brown announced today. ...

A 58-year-old man has been sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for sexually assaulting and torturing a woman last year at his Skid Row apartment, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Chris Harris was sentenced yesterday by Los Angeles County Superior Court ...

A 25-year-old man pleaded no contest today to breaking into his grandfather's Pomona home and severely beating the elderly man, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Sammeon Christian Waller entered his plea to two felony counts in case KA115541: elder abuse and first-degre...

A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection with a car crash that killed one person and injured another at Hawthorne and Del Amo boulevards in Torrance, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Dickinson said Monte Lashawn Collins (dob 3...

FULLERTON, Calif. – A former teacher and elder for a Jehovah's Witnesses church was convicted yesterday of sexually assaulting a teenage boy he met at church. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Jason Morris Gorski, 44, Fort Mill, South Carolina, Plead...

LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities this morning arrested a South Los Angeles man who allegedly made a series of online threats to kill law enforcement personnel and others at the Los Angeles Superior Court's Inglewood Courthouse, a nearby school and a private business. John Patrice Hale, 42, who...

LOS ANGELES – An Inland Empire woman who ran a home health agency that paid more than $1.25 million in illegal kickbacks for referrals of Medicare patients has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. Elaine C. Lat, 47, of Fontana, was sentenced on Monday by United States District Judge P...

SAN DIEGO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan today announced that a Florida couple was indicted in San Diego Superior Court on multiple charges related to a cancelled high school band trip to Japan. Bradley Matheson, 52, and Margaret...

Three homeless men were sentenced today for robbing a dozen mobile phone stores in the Downtown Los Angeles area, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Jeff Megee said Renell Samuel Collins, 52, pleaded no contest to two counts of second-degree robb...

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that it has obtained an additional $5.4 million for servicemembers whose vehicles were unlawfully repossessed by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in violation of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA). The bank, which does business under the name Wel...

A California resident was sentenced to 54 months in prison today for conspiring to file false claims for tax refunds, submitting false claims for tax refunds, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department...

A couple who ran a South Los Angeles private school has been charged with sexually assaulting a 16- year-old student in 2000, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Joseph Horace Green (dob 5/17/65) was charged in case BA201238 with four counts of unlawful sexual inter...