The feds arrested Brendan Ross, 47, founder and CEO of  Direct Lending Investments, LLC (DLI), an investment firm that specializes in debt instruments  on federal charges alleging he falsified financial records to fraudulently inflate the value of the funds he managed, allowing him to charge inve...

             Alan F. Broidy, 65, a disbarred Beverly Hills lawyer pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge (interstate transportation of stolen property) for scheming to steal more than $500,000 from a client he represented in bankruptcy proceedings and then use part of the money to pay off a ...

            The feds charged Mario Ernesto Alvarado, 42, a Sylmar man with arson by deliberately setting Hollywood's Pizzeria Mozza restaurant on fire during the civil disturbances that struck the city in late May. During the civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles on May 30, Alvarado all...

            The feds charged Samuel Trelawney Hughes, 31, who is a citizen of the United Kingdom, with 26-counts of making a series of detailed threats to harm, rape and kill 10 victims he met in various social and business settings. Specifically, the feds charged Hughes with seven counts of stal...

           Kais Mohammad, 36, a.k.a. “Superman29, a Yorba Linda man will plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he operated an illegal virtual-currency money services business that exchanged up to $25 million – including on behalf of criminals – through in-person transactions and a network...

           Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, 37, a.k.a. “Ray Hushpuppi” and “Hush,” a Nigerian national and Dubai resident who flaunted his extravagant lifestyle on social media has arrived in the United States to face criminal charges alleging he conspired to launder hundreds of millions of dollars from bus...

    Dr. Randy Rosen, 57, a Beverly Hills surgeon and his girlfriend,  Liza Visamanos,  face between 88 and 56 felony counts in connection with  with recruiting and hiring numerous body brokers to find and pay patients to have medically unnecessary Naltrexone implant surgeries and cortisone shots....

            A federal judge sentenced Turhan Lemont Armstrong, 50 to 259 months in federal prison for overseeing a long-running $3.3 million credit card, loan and real estate fraud scheme using stolen identities, primarily that of children.He also has to pay $3,305,609 in restitution and forfeit ...

            Juan Enrique Caudillo, 60, a former United States Postal Service employee got 100 months in federal prison for accepting bribes from business customers in exchange for falsely approving unpaid or underpaid bulk mail shipments, causing more than $11.7 million in total losses to his emp...

     The feds arrested Micah Tillmon, 19, a West Hills man. on federal charges alleging he started a fire that substantially damaged the Sake House by Hikari in Santa Monica on May 31. The feds have charged Tillmon one count of arson, a felony offense that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of ...

             A federal judge sentenced Sylvia Olivas, 73, who was convicted earlier this year on several charges related to her role as a “secretary” to an imprisoned Mexican Mafia member who controlled a street gang (Canta Ranas) to 151 months in federal prison. The jury found Olivas guilty of p...

A federal judge sentenced Chao “Edwin” Chen, 35, a Chinese national in absentia today to 37 months in federal prison for participating in a large-scale birth tourism scheme that engaged in visa fraud that allowed foreign nationals to come to the United States and give birth so their children woul...

The feds arrested  Ruixue “Serena” Shi, 36, lleging she fraudulently solicited $21.6 million in funds for a condominium and hotel complex in the Coachella Valley, then spent a significant portion of her victims' money on her own lavish living expenses, including luxury cars, travel, and designer ...

           A federal judge sentenced Robert Eric Stahlnecker, 48, a  Twentynine Palms man to 12 months and one day in federal prison for making harassing telephone calls to government offices and for threatening to injure congressional staffers and an intern who answered the calls. At a two-day t...

As part of the Los Angeles Superior Court's continuing efforts to help people resolve their Traffic and Non-Traffic Infraction matters, roughly 256,000 information packets are being mailed to individuals with Traffic and Non-Traffic Infraction citation compliance dates to help them resolve their ...

             The feds arrested Paul Horton Smith Sr., 56, a Riverside County man on a federal criminal complaint alleging he swindled dozens of his clients, many of them elderly retirees, in a long-running Ponzi scheme that took in more than $10 million in victim-investor money.  He faces up to 2...

            A federal judge sentenced Theron Charles Barron, 28,  a San Bernardino man who was on federal supervised release when he was found with hundreds of videos and still images depicting child pornography to 10 years in federal prison. In October and November 2018, Barron possessed a total...

           Jesse Beltran, 35, who had a prior state court conviction for child sex abuse pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography.  In 2008, Beltran was convicted of child molestation and spent eight years in the California state prison. While still on parole, in May 2019, t...

            The feds arrested William Sadleir, 66, formerly of Aviron Pictures, on federal fraud charges that allege he applied for $1.7 million in loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), falsely certified that the money would be used to finance the operations of other Aviron entities,...

             Angela Gillespie-Shelton, a.k.a. “Boss Lady” and “Angotti”, 54, of Houston, Texas woman who helped lead an interstate narcotics trafficking ring pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges arising out of an opioid buy-back scheme in which a doctor at a Los Angeles clinic prescri...

A federal judge sentenced Minas Matosyan, a.k.a. “Maserati Mike,” 40, of Encino to 108 months in federal prison for leading a conspiracy to distribute powerful prescription opioids via sham medical clinics that hired corrupt doctors who wrote fraudulent prescriptions to black market customers.   ...

            The feds arrested Briana Matla, 20, a former Colton resident, a United States citizen who now resides in Mexico and her boyfriend, Sanchez, on a federal criminal complaint alleging they collected ransom money as part of a kidnapping conspiracy where California residents were kidnapped...

            A San Bernardino County man, Chaunta A. Bashir, a.k.a. “taytheonly,” 26, of Chino, will plead guilty to a federal criminal charge that he produced dozens of sexually explicit images and videos of children, including of one victim who was 3 years old at the time. In his plea agreement,...

Antonio Mariot Wilson, a.k.a. “Dr. Tony Mariot” and “Brice Carrington,” 57, a Santa Monica man will to plead guilty to a federal fraud charge for a romance scam in which he deceived women he met online and elsewhere into investing tens of thousands of dollars into his sham sound design and softwa...

    A federal court ordered a California company to stop distributing unapproved hand sanitizer products as new drugs. Innovative BioDefense Inc., of Lake Forest, California and company CEO Colette Cozean and distributor Hotan Barough must stop distributing “Zylast” hand sanitizer products until ...