LOS ANGELES– A federal grand jury has returned a 44-count indictment that charges nine defendants with violating the Clean Air Act by conducting hundreds of fraudulent smog check inspections that falsely certified vehicles had passed emissions tests when different cars and trucks had actually be...

The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today a settlement to resolve allegations that Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (Toyota) engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American and Asian/Pacific Islander borrowers in auto ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former volunteer treasurer for Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's re-election committee is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for embezzling over $300,000 from campaign funds and business the where the defendant worked. Jack Wenpo Wu, 45, Newport Beach, is charged with three fel...

LOS ANGELES– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that she has lodged a lawsuit against Southern California Gas Company for violations of California law in connection with a massive methane leak from its Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.  In addition to filing suit in her in...

The former owner and the former operator of a durable medical equipment supply company based in Long Beach, California, were sentenced today for their roles in a $1.5 million Medicare fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. ...

An Orange County, California, man pleaded guilty today for his role in operating fraudulent debt relief firms that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims' payments as undisclosed up-front fees, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. Jeremy Nelso...

LOS ANGELES– Federal authorities on Saturday arrested 13 people after law enforcement authorities interdicted nearly 3,000 pounds of marijuana that they were trying to smuggle into the United States by panga boat at Arroyo Quemada Beach in southern Santa Barbara County, just north of the city of...

LOS ANGELES – A Riverside resident has pled guilty to possessing child pornography and now faces a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence in federal prison. James Gregory O'Neill, 58, of Riverside pleaded guilty on Monday, January 25 before United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner to possession ...

LOS ANGELES – A Canadian man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison on a federal fraud charge for targeting American victims in several schemes, including a fake lottery scam, one involving “secret shopper” pitch letters, and another involving bogus credit repair services. Peter Omagbe...

LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities this morning arrested three defendants who are charged in relation to a scheme that fraudulently sought approximately $15 million from Medicare for physical therapy services that were never provided to “patients.” The three men arrested today are among 10 defenda...

A 46-year-old former Uber driver is scheduled to be arraigned today after being ordered to stand trial on charges that he allegedly assaulted a client with his car, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney David Berger said Phillip Reid Bagwell (dob 9/...

An LAPD detective has been charged with dissuading a witness and false imprisonment involving an off-duty sexual relationship with a man she met on the Internet, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Christine Wycoff (dob 2/10/71) is scheduled to be arraigned on Feb. ...

LOS ANGELES– A San Fernando Valley woman was charged today with three federal offenses in relation to a scheme in which she submitted fraudulent bills and illegally took approximately $1 million from HBO, where she worked as manager in the Talent Relations Department. In court documents filed t...

A 35-year-old man was sentenced today to four years in state prison for assaulting his wife and leading police on a pursuit, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, defendant Raul Martinez pleaded no contest to two felony counts in case TA137510: ...

A 52-year-old man was convicted today of fatally stabbing the grandmother of his children at a park in 2013, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The jury deliberated for five hours before finding defendant Steven Dwayne Brown of Long Beach guilty of first-degree murder in...

A federal court has ordered a San Diego, California provider of collection services to pay its payroll taxes as they become due, the Justice Department announced today.  Judge Larry Alan Burns of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California entered a permanent injunction requir...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Three previously charged defendants were charged today for escaping from Orange County Jail. Bac Tien Duong, 43, Hossein Nayeri, 37, Newport Beach, and Jonathan Tieu, 20, Fountain Valley, are each charged with one felony count of escape from pending felony charges. Duong faces...

LOS ANGELES– A Long Beach woman and her son have been named in federal grand jury indictments that charge them with illegally shipping hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of firearms parts and ammunition to their native Philippines – munitions that were concealed in shipments they falsely cl...

LOS ANGELES– A man who repeatedly threatened to kill a United States Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer who contacted the man in relation to an investigation into trash dumped in the San Bernardino National Forest was sentenced today 18 months in federal prison. Richard Latka, 57, of Hemet,...

LOS ANGELES– The operator of the Normandie Casino in Gardena agreed in court papers filed this morning to plead guilty to charges that it violated anti-money laundering provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act. As part of an agreement with federal prosecutors, the casino agreed to pay nearly $2.4 mill...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today for starting a fire in a Stanton apartment causing residents of the complex to be displaced. Brandon Tyler Williams, 43, Stanton, is charged with one felony count of arson of an inhabited property. If convicted, Williams faces a maximum...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Santa Ana City Councilman and high-ranking executive for the County of Orange was sentenced today for sexually assaulting his subordinates and committing grand theft of public funds. Carlos Bustamante,50, Santa Ana, pleaded guilty Dec. 18, 2015, to one felony count of...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of attacking a woman with whom he is romantically involved with a meat cleaver after an argument in their Garden Grove apartment. Thang Van Nguyen, 46, Garden Grove, is charged with one felony count of attempted murder, one f...

A U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for accepting cash, consumer electronics and travel expenses from foreign defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) in exchange for classified U.S. Navy information. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Cal...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An arsonist was sentenced to five years in state prison today for collecting over $128,000 in insurance payments after filing claims for a series of fires, later determined to be arsons, and other fraudulent reports. The defendant also illegally collected over $18,000 in welfa...