A 55-year-old man has pleaded no contest to charges of fatally crashing into a pedestrian in North Hills, fleeing the scene and then leading police on a pursuit, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Deputy District Attorney Kaveh Faturechi said Mark Christian Johnson...

A 27-year-old man pleaded not guilty today to fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend in her Bellflower apartment, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Antowan Ladell Parker (dob 6/17/89) has been charged with one count of murder and two counts of assault with a semiautomatic f...

A man pleaded no contest today to killing his grandparents at the Glendale home they all shared, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Fernanda Barreto said Nathaniel Wayne Scheiern, 35, entered the pleas to one count each of first-degree murder and...

A 30-year-old man was sentenced today to 185 years-to-life in state prison for breaking into a Long Beach home and sexually assaulting a woman, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Nov. 10, 2016, a jury found Deitrick Paul Richmond guilty of eight felony counts in case ...

A 20-year-old Azusa man entered a plea today to sexually assaulting a woman at her Glendale home, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Fernanda Barreto said Justin Amador Rios pleaded guilty to one count of forcible sexual penetration and admitted ...

Quest Diagnostics Inc. has agreedto pay $6 million to resolve a lawsuit by the United States alleging that Berkeley HeartLab Inc., of Alameda, California, violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to physicians and patients to induce the use of Berkeley for blood testing services and by c...

A Pollock Pines, California woman who owned a tax return preparation business was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison today for conspiring to file more than 250 false refund claims, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department's Tax Division ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for murdering his childhood best friend. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Augustine Brady Godoy, 30, Salinas One felony count of murder Sentencing E...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, together with New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, filed a lawsuit yesterday against the U.S. Department of the Interior for delaying the implementation of one of its own rules promulgated to ensure that taxpayers receive their fair...

LOS ANGELES – An Irvine man who admitted that he illegally piloted private jet airplanes with passengers onboard without having a valid pilot's license was sentenced today to 10 months in federal prison. Arnold Gerald Leto III, 37, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dale S. Fischer, ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former volunteer treasurer for Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's re-election committee was sentenced to one year in county jail today for embezzling over $300,000 from campaign funds and his place of employment at the time. Defendant Charges Sentence ...

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury has issued a 12-count superseding indictment that accuses a Fontana company, its owner and three employees with violating the Clean Water Act by regularly engaging in illegal discharges of acidic industrial wastewater into a sewer system, as well as tampering w...

Three Orange County, California residents were sentenced to prison today for willfully failing to report their foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and Israel, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department's Tax Division. Dan Farhad Kalili, 55, a ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The president of the Buena Park School Board is scheduled to be arraigned for possessing and distributing over 600 photos and videos of child pornography, including prepubescent minors and infants. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date De...

The Department of Justice announced today that Braden Partners, L.P., doing business as Pacific Pulmonary Services, has agreed to pay $11.4 million to resolve allegations against it and its general partner, Teijin Pharma USA LLC, for violating the False Claims Act by submitting claims for reimbur...

LOS ANGELES — A Santa Fe Springs man who posed as an attorney as part of an elaborate immigration fraud scheme in which at least 87 foreign nationals – mostly Chinese citizens – paid tens of thousands of dollars to be “married” to United States citizens was sentenced today to two years in federa...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Mrs. Orange County pageant winner was sentenced to a court offer of ten months in county jail for possessing and distributing child pornography of a 4-year-old female relative. Defendant Charges Sentence Meghan Breanna Alt, 27, Irvine Pl...

RIVERSIDE, California – A correctional officer with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons at the Victorville Federal Correctional Complex pleaded guilty today to two counts relating to an incident in which she kicked a restrained female inmate in the head. Cynthia Flores, 34, of Victorville, pleaded guilt...

LOS ANGELES – The owner of The Skin Cancer Medical Center in Encino has paid the United States nearly $2.7 million to resolve allegations that he submitted bills to Medicare for Mohs micrographic surgeries for skin cancers that were medically unnecessary. Dr. Norman A. Brooks, M.D., a dermatolo...

A San Diego, California tax return preparer was sentenced to 37 months in prison today for preparing fraudulent tax returns, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department's Tax Division. According to documents filed with the court, Marla Lynn Cunn...

SACRAMENTO – Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a $9.8 million settlement with Walgreens, one of the largest drugstore chains in the United States. The settlement involved allegations that Walgreens failed to adhere fully to requirements imposed by California law for the dispensing o...

SANTA ANA, California – A former resident of Orange County who now lives in northern San Diego County has been sentenced to 102 months in federal prison for tax evasion and charges related to his attempt to flee in 2013 on the eve of a trial on the tax charge. Louis Joseph Vadino, 75, a Ramona re...

LOS ANGELES – The former Mayor of South El Monte was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison for taking bribes from a contractor doing business with the city – in one instance accepting a bribe during an FBI undercover operation. Luis Aguinaga, 49, of South El Monte, was sentenc...

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) Tony Rackauckas announced a shutdown of a $40 million fraudulent medical billing and kickback operation with the filing of charges against more than two dozen doctors, pharmacists, and business ow...

The driver of a truck that crashed into a Los Angeles police cruiser, killing the officer, pleaded no contest today to gross vehicular manslaughter, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Robert Maldonado, 48, entered his plea before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H...