LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities on Monday and Tuesday arrested three defendants charged with participating in a tax fraud scheme that used stolen identities to file at least 527 fraudulent federal income tax returns claiming more than $1.9 million in fraudulent tax refunds with the Internal Re...

A Redondo Beach woman accused of participating in a $150 million workers' compensation insurance fraud scheme pleaded guilty today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Kennes Ma said Marissa Nelson (dob 11/29/76) pleaded to one felony count of con...

After being convicted at trial, a Northern California real estate investor was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions, the Department of Justice announced. Alvin Florida Jr. was charged on Nov. 19, 2014, in an indictment returned by a f...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former security guard pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 24 years in state prison yesterday for posing as a police officer and forcibly raping a human trafficking victim. Defendant Charges Sentence Raul Antonio Ramos, 28, Westminster Pl...

LOS ANGELES – A Monterey Park man was taken into custody late this morning on federal smuggling charges stemming from the seizure of a package that contained three king cobras hidden in potato chip canisters. Rodrigo Franco, 34, was arrested this morning by special agents with the United States...

A 26-year-old man was charged today with three attempted sexual assaults in one night in Beverly Hills, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney David Berger said Joshua Daniel Stevens (dob 6/12/91) of Los Angeles faces three counts each of assault wit...

LOS ANGELES – Celgene Corp., a manufacturer of pharmaceuticals headquartered in Summit, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $280 million to settle fraud allegations related to the promotion of two cancer treatment drugs for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the Justice Department ...

A Los Angeles police officer has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Robert Cain (dob 4/17/86) was charged late yesterday in case BA459344 with two counts each of oral copulation of a person under the age of 16, le...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) officer was sentenced to six months in county jail today for committing insurance fraud by presenting a false insurance claim and making false material statements related to the claim. Defendant Charges Sentence ...

LOS ANGELES – A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who earned nearly $1.3 million while working in Dubai over a three-year period pleaded guilty today to failing to disclose a foreign bank account to the Internal Revenue Service. Marc Edward Mani, 49, pleaded guilty before United States District Jud...

SANTA ANA, California – A former federal correctional officer who worked at the United States Penitentiary in Victorville was sentenced today to six months in federal prison and six months of home detention for taking a $1,000 bribe to smuggle contraband to a prisoner inside the facility. Ignac...

LOS ANGELES – A Beverly Hills resident was indicted today by a federal grand jury for corruptly endeavoring to impede the internal revenue laws, filing false tax returns, filing false reports regarding his offshore bank accounts and making false statements to a federal agent, announced Acting De...

Amer Sinan Alhaggagi, 22, of Oakland, California, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in San Francisco with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney Brian...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) is seeking the public's help in identifying potential additional victims of a music teacher who was charged today with committing lewd and lascivious acts on two students under the age of 14 from his music school, “Music Town...

A Beverly Hills, California resident was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Central District of California for corruptly endeavoring to impede the internal revenue laws, filing false tax returns, filing false reports regarding his offshore bank accounts and making false statements to a feder...

The Justice Department today announced the seizure of the largest criminal marketplace on the Internet, AlphaBay, which operated for over two years on the dark web and was used to sell deadly illegal drugs, stolen and fraudulent identification documents and access devices, counterfeit goods, malw...

A 22-year-old woman has pleaded no contest to kidnapping three young children of her half-sister who was killed last August, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Brittney Sue Humphrey entered an open plea yesterday to three counts of kidnapping. In an open plea, the ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A San Jose felon was sentenced to 31 years and six months in state prison yesterday for human trafficking, pimping, and pandering two minors and six additional women using a firearm, intimidation, and drugs. Defendant Charges Sentence Ariel Cuellar G...

A suspected gang member is expected to be arraigned today on attempted murder and other charges after opening fire on SWAT officers last month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jose Rauda (dob 4/4/83) was charged in case BA458353 with 46 counts, including 19 counts of ...

The price of a DUI is always going to vary based on multiple factors such as criminal charges, details of the case, and the attorney representing you. While there is no exact price tag for a DUI, it is guaranteed to be a hefty number. You will be hit with a whirlwind of fee's that you would never...

A man who operates an alcohol live-in program has been charged with the death of a man who was under the rehab's care last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jason Aviles (dob 3/20/91) of Long Beach faces one count of murder in case BA458474. Aviles is scheduled to...

LOS ANGELES – A former director of South Korea's Earthquake Research Center at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) has been found guilty of using a Southern California bank account to launder bribes he received from two seismological companies, including one based in ...

LOS ANGELES – A member of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) – who was found guilty by a jury last year of conspiring to engage in racketeering activities, which included him selling crack cocaine on Skid Row – has been sentenced to 360 months in federal prison. Tony Gordon, also know...

Two men were sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for killing a Hong Kong resident during an organized robbery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On July 10, a jury found Michael Quiroga Castiblanco (dob 5/27/92) and Juan Alejandro C...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for stabbing and murdering a 17-year-old girl in Yorba Linda. Defendant Charges Sentence Larry Soo Shin, 38, Yorba Linda, Found guilty by a jury on June 1, 2017, ...