RIVERSIDE, California– Enrique Marquez Jr., a longtime friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, was charged today with conspiring with Farook in 2011 and 2012 to commit crimes of terrorism. Marquez was also charged today with the unlawful purchase of ...

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles art dealer has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle looted archeological resources into the United States, and then using those antiquities as the basis of a charitable donation tax fraud scheme involving local museums. Jonathan M. Mar...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged yesterday for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl, who was waiting on a curb in line for Christmas presents at a school. Raul Marin Martin, 59, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of committing a lewd act upon a child under the age of 14, and alleg...

Lumsden W. Quan, 47, an art dealer from San Francisco, California, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Vegas, Nevada, to one year and two days in prison for conspiracy to violate the Lacey and Endangered Species Acts and to a violation of the Lacey Act for knowingly selling black rhinocer...

SACRAMENTO– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the arrest of Alex Morales III, 54, an employee of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), on bribery charges. Morales allegedly received bribes in the form of money and a vehicle in return for ensuring that Americans w...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted yesterday of assaulting a 2-year-old child causing his death. Lae Thong Thongpun, 33, Garden Grove, was found guilty by a jury yesterday, Dec. 14, 2015, of one felony count of involuntary manslaughter and one felony count of assault on a child under 8 years...

A jury today recommended the death penalty for a 34-year-old man convicted of gunning down four people outside a Northridge boarding home two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The same jury that on Nov. 19 found Ka Pasasouk guilty of four counts of first-degr...

SAN FRANCISCO– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley today announced a settlement with Comcast Cable Communications LLC (“Comcast”) to resolve allegations that Comcast both unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste and discarded records without firs...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) announced today that he will seek the death penalty against a registered sex offender for the special-circumstances murder of four women after kidnapping and raping the victims. Steven Dean Gordon, 46, Anaheim, was indicted by the gra...

FULLERTON, Calif. – A man was sentenced today to four years in state prison for pandering of an undercover officer posing as a 17-year-old minor on a social media website. Rashon Raymond Cook, 35, Inglewood, pleaded guilty today to one felony count of pandering. Circumstances of the Case With the...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A gang member pleaded guilty and was sentenced today for pandering a woman and using his brother to dissuade the victim from testifying. Tyrell Anthony Lancaster, 32, Hemet, pleaded guilty today to one felony count of pandering, one felony count of dissuading a witness from ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An insurance agent was sentenced today to 10 years in state prison for defrauding over $1.4 million through an advance commission scheme. Eric Lee, 65, Brea, pleaded guilty on Oct. 23, 2015, to 10 felony counts of grand theft and 10 felony counts of insurance fraud with senten...

SANTA ANA, California– An Orange County man who allegedly bilked distressed homeowners with false promises that he could help them avoid foreclosure by obtaining modifications to their mortgages – or even completely eliminating their loans – was arrested this morning on federal fraud charges by S...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A famous Hispanic band member has been charged for assaulting his ex-girlfriend outside an apartment complex in Santa Ana. Regulo Cristobal Valentin, 36, Las Vegas, Nevada, is charged with one felony count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and one fel...

An Orange County man suspected of assaulting two women while pretending to be a police officer is awaiting arraignment today on charges, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Joseph Christoph Moore (dob 1/3/76) is scheduled to be arraigned sometime after 1:30 p.m. at the Fo...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An automobile dealership owner and an accounting firm owner were charged and arraigned for filing approximately $1.2 million in fraudulent tax returns. Young Eui Hong, 51, and James Jun Kul Pak, 49, both of Garden Grove, are each charged with six felony counts of unlawful fail...

LOS ANGELES– Federal authorities today arrested 11 defendants named in a sweeping racketeering indictment that alleges a series of money laundering schemes that revolved around the former head Westminster-based Saigon National Bank. Four other defendants who are named in two separate money launde...

LOS ANGELES– Two members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 13, have been arrested on federal fraud charges that allege they caused two medical clinics to bill the union's health care plan for chiropractic services that either were not provided or were not medically ...

LOS ANGELES – The United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California collected $42,370,356 as a result of criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits during the 2015 fiscal year, United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker announced today. The amount collected for U.S. taxpayers duri...

The former owner, operator and managers of a Southern California ambulance company were sentenced to prison for their role in a fraud scheme that resulted in more than $1.5 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Crimina...

SANTA ANA, California– A commercial firefighter who resides in Huntington Beach has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for attempting to produce child pornography by sending money to the Philippines to purchase a camera to take sexually explicit photos of a 13-year-old girl and her fr...

LOS ANGELES– A former deputy U.S. marshal was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison after being convicted of obstruction of justice – a charge stemming from lies he told to police after he fatally shot a man. Matthew Itkowitz, 47, who now lives in Suffern, New York, was sentenced by Unit...

SANTA ANA, California– A Santa Barbara-area physician who wrote numerous prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients” – many of whom were drug addicts, and some of whom died from drug overdoses – was sentenced today to 327 months in federal prison. Julio Gabriel Diaz, 67, a Goleta reside...

RIVERSIDE, California– The founder and co-owner of a Rancho Cucamonga business was sentenced today to 18 years in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme that offered bogus loan modification programs to thousands of financially distressed homeowners who lost more than $7 million when they paid ...

LOS ANGELES– A Corona woman who was the chief executive officer of a high-end jean company that outfitted Hollywood celebrities was sentenced today to 79 months in federal prison for running what prosecutors called “two fraud schemes of epic proportions.” Carolyn Marie Jones, 52, was sentenced th...