An off-duty Los Angeles police officer has been charged with assaulting three men in El Segundo last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Joseph William Rooney (dob 10/22/83) was charged in case BA461162 with four counts of assault with a firearm. The case was filed ...

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury has returned three indictments charging a total of three individuals and two companies with engaging in the unlawful trading of live corals that are protected by an international treaty known as the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species of...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A second striker was convicted and sentenced to 44 years and four months in state prison for forcibly raping a woman who offered to give him a ride home from the grocery store. Defendant Charges Sentence Michael Curtis Hernandez, 41, Tustin Plead...

A homeless man was sentenced today to 26 years to life in state prison for fatally stabbing a 45-year-old woman who had allowed the defendant to live in her home, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Casey Higgins said Laevin Meikel Weatherspoon (d...

A Bell Gardens man was found guilty today of killing two brothers in 2015, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Miriam Avalos said Pedro Vasquez, 24, was found guilty by a jury of two counts of second-degree murder. The jury also found true that a ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Today is an important day for the people of Orange County, as mass murderer Scott Dekraai has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) secured the conviction for eight counts of first degree premedi...

Two gang members were found guilty today of murdering five people at a Long Beach homeless encampment in 2008, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for a day before convicting David Cruz Ponce, 36, and Max Eliseo Rafael, 31, of five counts of murder and ...

SANTA ANA, California – A former clerk of the Orange County Superior Court was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme in which he was paid approximately $420,000 dollars in bribes to “fix” criminal cases and traffic offenses on terms favorable to hundreds of d...

A man was convicted today of murdering a Palmdale gas station attendant nearly 40 years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for less than a day before finding 60-year-old Neal Antoine Matthews guilty of one count of first-degree murder. The panel a...

LOS ANGELES – A Riverside woman who was the controller at a Fontana-based metal forging company pleaded guilty this morning to federal charges stemming from her embezzlement of $1.5 million from her employer. Jacquelin Dyer, 67, who was the controller and co-general manager at Pacific Forge, In...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the concurrent filing of a complaint and a settlement involving allegations that The Gatorade Company violated California consumer protection laws by making misleading statements about water in a mobile videogame application ...

Two real estate investors pleaded guilty for their role in conspiracies to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced. Joseph J. Giraudo pleaded guilty to two counts of bid rigging, and Kevin B. Cullinane pleaded guilty to one ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today for the stabbing-murder of his wife in a Santa Ana apartment. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Mark Lewis Amacher Jr., 38, Santa Ana Charged today with: One felony count of...

A former Los Angeles County probation officer was sentenced today after pleading guilty to inappropriately touching two girls at a youth camp, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Oscar David Calderon Jr., 33, entered his plea to two felony counts of assault under the colo...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A United States Marine is scheduled to be arraigned today for the shooting-murder of his estranged wife in Laguna Hills. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Jerel Mark Boykins, 26, North Carolina Charged today with: ...

SANTA ANA, California – A federal jury has convicted a physician assistant who worked at a Fountain Valley medical clinic on federal drug trafficking charges for writing prescriptions for dangerous and addictive narcotics without a medical purpose. Kaitlyn Phuong Nguyen, 32, of San Jose, Califo...

A Redondo Beach man was sentenced today to 16 years to life in state prison for the stabbing death of his girlfriend, star of the reality show “Loredana, Esq.”, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. A jury deliberated for three days before finding Robert Brian Reagan, 53, g...

LOS ANGELES – A Hermosa Beach man was sentenced this afternoon to six years in federal prison for filing fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that sought millions of dollars in refunds and using bogus financial instruments in an attempt to pay off debt. His wife was also sente...

A Brentwood School teacher was charged today with having unlawful sex with a student earlier this year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Aimee Palmitessa (dob 1/9/72) was charged in case SA096485 with seven counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, two counts each of sodo...

LOS ANGELES – An engineer who worked for a defense contractor was sentenced this morning to 60 months in federal prison for selling sensitive satellite information he stole from his employer to a person he believed to be an agent of a Russian intelligence service. Gregory Allen Justice, 50, of Cu...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced today to one year and four months in state prison for planting weapons and methamphetamine inside the bed of a woman's truck and making false reports to law enforcement. Defendant Charges Sentence Kevin Brown, 44, Laguna Hills ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison for having sexual intercourse and committing lewd acts on his 4-year-old female relative. Defendant Charges Sentence Ricardo Interiano-Rivas, 50, Costa Mesa Found guilty by a jury on June 29...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a state prison sentence of 23 years and eight months for Luther Feltus-Curry, a Vallejo pastor who masterminded a malicious fraud scheme preying on members of his own church congregation. Earlier this year, his co-conspirator...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) Tony Rackauckas is opposing the parole of a man who stole the life savings of numerous seniors in an elaborate Ponzi scheme and failed to pay $530,000 in taxes on his ill-gotten profits.Jeffrey Gordon Butler, 59, San Juan Capistrano, is c...

A 56-year-old man was charged today with fatally shooting his girlfriend in their home on Monday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Rafael Ayala Castillo (dob 2/21/61) has been charged with one count of murder in case VA145805. The felony complaint includes a special al...