SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver was convicted today of murdering a mother of three after driving into oncoming traffic and crashing head-on into her minivan in Mission Viejo. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date William Joseph Carroll, 51, Mission Viej...

LOS ANGELES – A concert promoter who operated in Dallas, Texas and West Hollywood pleaded guilty this morning to a federal fraud charge for defrauding investors, promoters and performers who invested in concerts and World Wrestling Entertainment events. Gabriel Martin Reed, 46, a former Malibu ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to 70 years in state prison today for continuously sexually abusing four boys under 14 years old. Defendant Charges Sentence Uriel Ruiz Ricardez, 26, San Clemente (4) Continuous sexual abuse Lewd acts u...

A former account clerk at an Alhambra high school and her daughter were each sentenced today to four years in state prison for embezzling $189,000 from a school bank account, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Juanita “Chic” Boranian, 62, and Erika Boranian, 31, were sen...

RIVERSIDE – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the arrest of 47 individuals; seizure of 36 firearms, including assault weapons; and seizure of 12 pounds of methamphetamine, three pounds of heroin, 120 pounds of marijuana, 60 pounds of cocaine, and $35,000 in criminal proce...

LOS ANGELES – The owner of a business that operated parking lots was arrested this morning after being charged with bilking the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs out of more than $11 million that should have been paid in relation to a contract to operate parking facilities on the VA's Los Ang...

RIVERSIDE, California – Adelanto City Councilmember Jermaine Wright is expected to make his first court appearance this afternoon after being arrested yesterday on federal charges that allege he took a $10,000 cash bribe and that he hired a man to burn down his restaurant to collect insurance pr...

The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) will challenge the passport identifier recently revealed by the U.S. State Department. The challenge is expected to be filed in a federal district court within the next 90 days. “We have begun the necessary process of identifying a strategy...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A woman is scheduled to be arraigned for lying under oath to protect her boyfriend, who continually sexually abused and raped a 13-year-old minor in her care. Defendant ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A music producer was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in state prison for pimping and pandering four women in Orange County and Los Angeles. Defendant Charges Sentence Brandon Christopher Ramsay,...

A federal court entered an order against three Los Angeles area telemarketing companies and two executives, the Department of Justice announced today.  That order, entered by Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald in the Central District of California, permanently bans the companies and one executive from f...

LOS ANGELES – A Simi Valley man who admitted that he distributed child pornography – including a video with a filename indicating an 8-year-old girl was being abused – has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Eric Allen Haensgen, 38, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judg...

LOS ANGELES – A U.S. Army contracting officer representative who admitted taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from South Korean contractors in return for approving fraudulent invoices was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison. Marcus D. Flowers, 51, of Enterprise, Alabama, ...

SANTA ANA, California – A licensed psychiatrist who practices in Long Beach has been sentenced to over four years in federal prison for paying a $30,000 cash bribe to a revenue agent with the Internal Revenue Service who was auditing the man's tax returns. Dr. Harshad Shah, 62, of Cypress, was se...

A 60-year-old man was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the kidnapping and killing of a Palmdale gas station attendant in 1978, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Neal Antoine Matthews was convicted in September of one count of first...

A Duarte man was charged today in connection with the fatal shooting of a deer in Monrovia, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Michael Jackson Rodriguez (dob 2/5/84) was charged in case GA102229 with one felony count of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former student is scheduled to be arraigned today for threatening a mass shooting at Soka University (Soka) in Aliso Viejo on YouTube and in emails to a staff member. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date David Kenneth Smith, 39, Los An...

SANTA ANA – A pimp, known by the moniker “Classified,” who recruited approximately 20 women and girls through a social media website and advertised their services as prostitutes in an online publication, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for sex trafficking of a child by force, fraud...

SANTA ANA, California – The former deputy treasurer for the City of Compton was sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison on charges stemming from his embezzlement of more than $3.7 million of city funds over the course of six years. Salvador Galvan, 47, of La Mirada, was sentenced by...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A “hard money” lender was sentenced today to 34 years and four months in state prison for embezzling over $3.2 million from investors in a Ponzi real estate-mortgage investment fraud scheme. Defendant Charges Sentence Thomas Franklin Tarbutton, 58,...

A 54-year-old man has been charged with trying to kidnap a 13-year-old girl walking to school in Rancho Palos Verdes, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Garrett Evans Webber (dob 6/22/63) of Rancho Palos Verdes faces one felony count each of attempted kidnapping of...

Passports and International Megan's Law Newsroom / OCTOBER 30, 2017 On February 8, 2016, Congress enacted the International Megan's Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders (IML) (Public Law 114-119). The IML prohibits the ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) Tony Rackauckas, in a joint prosecution with Contra Costa District Attorney (CCDA) Diana Becton, has obtained nationwide restitution and a $1.3 million consumer protection settlement against 24 Hour Fitness, Inc., (24 Hour) resolving alle...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Newport Beach Police Department (NBPD) officers arrested a man today on a warrant for the 1994 murder of his mother. He was taken into custody without incident as he got off of his boat and was booked at the NBPD Jail without bail. John Henry Van Uden III, 70, Dana Point, was ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Three Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) officers admitted yesterday to committing petty theft and vandalism during a legal search of a marijuana dispensary pursuant to a search warrant. Defendant Charges Terms and Conditions of Plea Jorge Arr...