A federal judge sentenced  Vardges Markosyan, 47, of North Hollywood, to 108 months in federal prison for smuggling more than 80 pounds of cocaine – concealed and suspended in grease – in household products that were mailed to Australia. Markosyan – aka “David Petrosov,” “Giani Oncho,” and “L...

            LOS ANGELES – A San Bernardino County man was sentenced today to 77 months in federal prison for stealing more than half a million dollars in United States Treasury checks and then using them to defraud two major banks.             Danele Ramon Morgan, 46, of Rancho Cucamonga, was sen...

LOS ANGELES – A former Dunbar Armored Inc. employee was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for orchestrating the theft of nearly $300,000 in cash out of Dunbar's storage facility in Vernon.             Eric Miranda, 39, of East Los Angeles, was sentenced by United States District Judg...

          The feds arrested Melinda Romines, 41, ofAnaheim, and charged her with conspiring to engage in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, possessing an unregistered firearm, and distributing methamphetamine. The grand jury indictment alleges that Romines found firearms avail...

          A Walnut man, Christopher Myung Kim, 30, got 168 months in federal prison for orchestrating a $2 million armed robbery of a commercial marijuana warehouse where over half a ton of marijuana was stolen. Marc Antrim, corrupt Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy helped him.  Kim ...

    In October 2019, James Roy McDaniel, 66, of Long Beach, a former tax and estate-planning lawyer pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion.A federal judge sentenced McDaniel to 60 months in federal prison.  McDaniel also has to pay back $1.54 million.  McDaniel, a licensed California lawyer f...

          The former chairman of the board for the Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, of Los Angeles, Charles Sebesta, of Huntington Beach, pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges that he stole more than $11 million in church money via bank accounts for phony companies and tried to cover...

A federal district court judge sentenced Li Lin Hsu, a.k.a. Yilin Hsu Lee, 42, of Diamond Bar,  a former Ameriprise financial advisor who ran a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 20 of her clients – including some of her relatives – out of more than $8.1 million to 136 months in federal prison. The judg...

A federal judge sentenced Daniel Patrick Diaz, 35, of Wilmington, 84 months in federal prison for possessing child pornography and distributing the sexually explicit images of children to other Internet users. Diaz pleaded guilty to four counts of receipt and distribution of child pornography and...

SANTA ANA, California – A doctor and the former owner of a Long Beach hospital was sentenced this morning to 15 months in federal prison for taking part in a long-running health care fraud scheme where he authorized sham contracts that concealed over $30 million in illegal kickback payments to ph...

            SANTA ANA, California – A federal judge sentenced Shirene Hernandez, 47, of Corona, a former Fannie Mae employee to 76 months in federal prison for a multimillion-dollar scheme to take bribes and to discount sales of Fannie Mae-owned properties to herself and to real estate brokers in...

      A twice-deported Belizean national, Akeem Garnett, 37, a.k.a. “Akeen Dean Garnett” and “Emerson Edmund Hewitt,” who most recently lived in Beverly Hills, and who currently is serving a nine-year sentence in a California prison for a domestic violence-related conviction was charged today wit...

     A federal judge sentenced Rowena Isabel Lokeni, 36, of Garden Grove, a former Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who stole more than $176,000 in Social Security Benefits to 15 months in federal prison.  She also has to repay $176,015 to the SSA. Lokeni pleaded guilty to one count ...

            A federal judge sentenced ex-doctor Kumar, 56, of Encino to 24 months in federal prison for engaging in a multi-faceted Medicare fraud scheme, and also for illegal prescribing thousands of opioid painkillers and muscle relaxants.Ex-Dr. Kumar also has to pay $1 million, consisting incl...

               A federal judge sentenced Dino Tabar Trias, 45, of Bakersfield, to 84 months in federal prison for robbing banks in Long Beach and San Luis Obispo County while he brandished what appeared to be a handgun at the tellers. He also has to repay $4,001 to the banks. Trias pleaded guilty...

            LOS ANGELES – A Venice man was sentenced today to 39 months in federal prison for his conviction on federal charges of illegally distributing prescription opioids.             James Wilson, 56, was sentenced by United States District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr.             At the conclu...

LOS ANGELES – A San Gabriel Valley man was arrested today on federal criminal charges that he participated in a $23.8 million scheme to manufacture and ship counterfeit laptop computer batteries and other electronics from China to the United States, where the bogus batteries were sold to unsuspec...

A federal district court judge sentenced Susan Margaret Werth, 58, a San Diego woman who ran a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme to 70 months in federal prison for deceiving investors by falsely claiming their money would be used to make short-term construction loans to other investors seeking to ...

            The U.S. Attorney's office has accused Jorge Gomez Torres, 66, of playing a key role in an international drug-trafficking organization that shipped more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine around the world. The indictment charges Torres with three counts – one count of drug trafficki...

            Timothy Dalton Vaughn, 21, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina,  pleaded guilty to federal charges of making bogus threats of shootings and bombings to schools in the United Kingdom and the United States, including numerous schools in Southern California. He also          admitted making...

A federal district court judge sentenced Anthony Wade Evans, a.k.a. “Devine Evans,” 45,  a Grammy Award-winning music producer to 24 months in federal prison for fraudulently using his clients' credit card information to purchase services for his wedding, as well as airline fares and hotel reserv...

A Laguna Niguel girls softball parent volunteer and former member of the University of California, Irvine Board of Directors was sentenced to 170 years to life today for molesting three young girls at his home. On October 15, 2019, a jury convicted Glen Thomas Kauffman, 55, of Laguna Niguel of si...

           A jury found Christopher Myung Kim, 29 A former employee of a marijuana distribution warehouse guilty of federal criminal charges that he conspired with a corrupt Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy to rob his former employer of $2 million dollars' worth of marijuana and cas...

A federal judge sentenced spinal surgeon Dr. Daniel Capen, 70, of Manhattan Beach, to 30 months in federal prison for participating in a long-running health care fraud scheme in which he received at least $5 million in kickbacks for performing hundreds of spinal surgeries. The overall scheme resu...

            A jury found two Gardena Police officers guilty federal criminal charges for scheming to purchase “off-roster” firearms not available to the general public and then illegally reselling the firearms for profit.   The jury found Carlos Miguel Fernandez, 44, of Norwalk, and Edward Yasush...