LOS ANGELES– A Riverside woman has been convicted on federal identity theft charges for possessing the identities of more than 50 patients of a residential medical facility in Long Beach formerly known as the Hillcrest Care Center. Bridgette Jackson, 45, was convicted by a jury yesterday aftern...

LOS ANGELES– A Riverside woman has been convicted on federal identity theft charges for possessing the identities of more than 50 patients of a residential medical facility in Long Beach formerly known as the Hillcrest Care Center. Bridgette Jackson, 45, was convicted by a jury yesterday aftern...

LOS ANGELES– Federal authorities have arrested a former captain with Alaska Airlines on federal charges of piloting a plane with passengers while under the influence of alcohol. David Hans Arntson, 60, a resident of Newport Beach, was arrested yesterday morning and was arraigned on the felony c...

LOS ANGELES– Federal authorities have arrested a former captain with Alaska Airlines on federal charges of piloting a plane with passengers while under the influence of alcohol. David Hans Arntson, 60, a resident of Newport Beach, was arrested yesterday morning and was arraigned on the felony c...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A “hard money” lender was convicted today of embezzling over $3 million from investors in a Ponzi real estate-mortgage investment fraud scheme. Thomas Franklin Tarbutton, 56, Newport Beach, was found guilty by a jury of 18 felony counts of grand theft, nine felony counts of ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A “hard money” lender was convicted today of embezzling over $3 million from investors in a Ponzi real estate-mortgage investment fraud scheme. Thomas Franklin Tarbutton, 56, Newport Beach, was found guilty by a jury of 18 felony counts of grand theft, nine felony counts of ...

Two men and a teenager accused of breaking into a Downey house and killing the homeowner were charged today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Paul Darvis Misikei (dob 4/26/97), Henry Willie Sao (dob 2/4/88) and Sakaopo Atanasio Folau (dob 11/24/98) have each been charg...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver is scheduled to be arraigned today for evading police officers after failing to appear in court on animal abuse charges. Tiffini KuuipoTobe, 47, La Habra, was charged today, Jan. 20, 2016, with one felony count of evading while driving recklessly, one misdemea...

Two residents of Glendale, California, were charged in a superseding indictment in connection with a bank fraud scheme involving the proceeds of a mass mailing scam targeting holders of U.S. trademarks. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Two strikers from Fresno are scheduled to be arraigned today for pimping and pandering two women in Orange County. Trent Omar Babcock, 40, and Efrain Dominguez Gonzalez, 25, are each charged with two felony counts each of pimping and two felony counts each of pandering. Babcoc...

A 23-year-old woman was sentenced today to six years in state prison for stabbing her toddler during a domestic dispute, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Michelle Betancourt of Cudahy pleaded no contest to a felony count of assault with a d...

SACRAMENTO– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and Placer County District Attorney R. Scott Owens today announced the arraignment of Riley Bangerter, 36, of Roseville, on 11 charges of identity theft, in a case of cyber harassment. Bangerter pled not guilty when he was arraigned on January 11, 201...

Nine people are scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of participating in a $24 million phony billing scam for interpreting services across Southern California, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. All nine are charged in case BA441949 with conspiracy and insurance fr...

A 53-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge filed almost three decades after the shooting death of a jewelry salesman at a Pasadena gas station, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Deputy District Attorney Ryan Erlich said Albert Ahmad Clark aka Al C...

A jury today found a Los Angeles man guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend's 11-year-old son, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The jury deliberated less than four hours before finding Rineson Curtis Adams, 29, guilty of fatally stabbing ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man who was driving under the influence of heroin was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison today for murdering a bicyclist in a hit-and-run crash in Newport Beach. Neil Storm Stephany, 24, Huntington Beach, was found guilty by a jury Oct. 26, 2015, of one felony cou...

Amin al-Baroudi, 50, a Syrian-born naturalized U.S. citizen formerly of Irvine, California, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiring to export U.S.-origin goods from the United States to Syria in violation of sanctions imposed on Syria by the U.S. government.  The guilty plea was accepted by...

Tri-City Medical Center, a hospital located in Oceanside, California, has agreed to pay $3,278,464 to resolve allegations that it violated the Stark Law and the False Claims Act by maintaining financial arrangements with community-based physicians and physician groups that violated the Medicare p...

LOS ANGELES– A man who was on the run after failing to abide by the terms of his release after serving a prison sentence in a narcotics case was found guilty this afternoon of assaulting a Deputy U.S. Marshal by trying to run him over with a minivan. Keith Leon Smith, 47, was found guilty by a f...

A man was sentenced today to more than 25 years in state prison for the fatal shooting of a 5-year-old boy on Halloween six years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Marcus Denson, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter and two counts of attempted ...

A 36-year-old man best known for his role in the Power Ranger series has been charged with the 2015 stabbing death of his roommate, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Ricardo Medina (dob 1/24/79) was arrested this morning on a felony complaint for arrest warrant in case ...

SANTA ANA, California– A longtime member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang who exerted control over Latino street gangs in Orange County for 30 years was convicted today of federal racketeering offenses, with a jury finding that he ordered murders and assaults while incarcerated in federal prison...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An inmate who was previously sentenced to receive the death penalty will be brought back to Orange County at the request of the Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) to be resentenced to life in state prison without the possibility of parole. Kenneth Clair, 55, housed in San ...

A grand jury in Sacramento, California, returned an indictment today charging Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, of Sacramento, with one count of making a false statement involving international terrorism, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B...

One of two men charged with kidnapping and killing a Palmdale gas station attendant 35 years ago has pleaded guilty to her murder, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Terry Moses, 60, pleaded guilty on Jan. 7 to the murder of Leslie Long on Dec. 3, 1978, said Deputy...