SANTA ANA, Calif. – A mother pleaded guilty today to the special circumstances murder of her two children after losing custody of them to her former husband. Marilyn Kay Edge, 44, Scottsdale, Ariz., pleaded guilty to two felony counts of murder with special circumstance enhancements for committin...

A one-count indictment was unsealed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco against Daniel William Aston and his company, Trod Ltd. (doing business as Buy 4 Less, Buy For Less, and Buy-For-Less-Online), a U.K. company headquartered in Birmingh...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A county contractor was convicted and sentenced yesterday for misappropriation of public funds by falsifying invoices for more than $130,000 submitted to the county for reimbursement and embezzling more than $440,000 by making unauthorized payments with his com...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) is seeking the public's help identifying potential additional victims of a former church pastor charged with forcibly raping a female church member and sexually abusing three other female church members. Sean Patrick Aday, 38...

The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with the J.R. Simplot Company that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations related to modifications made at Simplot's five sulfuric acid plants near Lathrop, California, Pocatello, Idaho, and Ro...

LOS ANGELES– A former Beverly Hills stockbroker has been indicted – along with fugitive hedge fund manager Florian Homm and two others – in an alleged stock manipulation scheme designed to pump up the reported profits of the Homm-managed hedge funds in a fraud that caused investors to lose approx...

LOS ANGELES– Two former Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies who violated the civil rights of a visitor to the Men's Central Jail by beating him while he was restrained with handcuffs were sentenced today, each being ordered to serve at least six years in federal prison. Fernando Luviano, 37, was sente...

LOS ANGELES – A Northern California man who operated the Internet's best-known “revenge porn” website was sentenced late this afternoon to 30 months in federal prison for hiring another man to hack into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on his website. Hunter Moore, 29, ...

A man serving time for a robbery conviction was charged today with the brutal fatal stabbing of a bar owner 14 years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Hugo Lara (dob 4/23/73), aka Whisper, was charged with one count of murder in case BA441878 as well as a special a...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer was convicted today of attempting to commit a lewd act with a 12-year-old girl and indecent exposure to five female victims in Huntington Beach. Ryan Eric Galliher, 33, Huntington Beach, was found guilty by a jury of one felony co...

Nicholas Michael Teausant, 22, of Acampo, California, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner of the Eastern Dist...

LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, along with two local District Attorneys, today filed civil lawsuits against two car donation charities for violating state law by misrepresenting their charitable programs and improperly profiting from ostensibly charitable activities. In partnersh...

LOS ANGELES – An Orange County man who operated a Ponzi scheme that bilked victims out of more than $15 million with false promises of large returns from investments in debt obligations and distressed real estate was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison. William Donnelly Yotty, 69, who ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man has been charged with pandering and attempting to pimp a woman in Santa Ana. Lamont Lee Stcyr, 20, Dixon, is charged with one felony count of attempted pimping and one felony count of pandering. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of six years in state prison. He i...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A convicted felon has been charged for pimping and pandering a woman and carrying a loaded firearm in public. Andrew Michael Meteau, 29, Pomona, is charged with one felony count of pimping, one felony count of pandering, one felony count of carrying a loaded firearm in public ...

A 49-year-old man was sentenced today to 50 years to life in state prison for killing a former coworker and then hiding his body by encasing it concrete under a Santa Fe Springs business, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Steven Schreiner said J...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was arraigned today on charges of tax evasion and insurance fraud for failing to report over $5.6 million in payroll and failing to pay over $384,000 in taxes. Darrin Shawn Wilson, 50, Newport Beach, is charged with 15 felony counts of misrepresenting facts to the State ...

VENTURA– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that the California Department of Justice will be formally joining the Ventura County District Attorney's Office in the ongoing prosecution of multiple individual and corporate defendants charged with environmental crimes and other specif...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man previously convicted of the shaking abuse of his girlfriend's 11-month-old daughter in 2005 was charged yesterday with murder after the victim died as a result of the injuries she sustained 10 years ago. Christopher Edward Byrd, 39, La Habra, is charged with one felony c...

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty late yesterday afternoon to conspiring to use stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that sought more than $2.6 million in false tax refunds. Heber Cotton, 39, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to one count of ...

LOS ANGELES– A former resident of the San Gabriel Valley who was a major distributor of counterfeit cigarettes in the Los Angeles area has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for trafficking in counterfeit goods. Su Qin Yang, who also used the names “Lily” and “Anita Chang,” was...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 24-year-old man is expected to be arraigned tomorrow on charges of attempted murder for repeatedly shooting at an on-duty peace officer, who was responding to a call. Evan Williams Taylor, Orange, is charged with one felony count of attempted murder of a peace officer, one f...

A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy for his role in an investment fraud scheme that promoted fraudulent investment opportunities and caused more than $5 million in losses to investors. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S....

Santa Ana, California– In a series of related cases announced today, the former CFO of a Long Beach hospital, two orthopedic surgeons and two others have been charged in long-running health care fraud schemes that illegally referred thousands of patients for spinal surgeries and generated nearly ...

An 18-year-old and a 21-year-old were charged today with special circumstance murder in the fatal shooting of a Downey police officer last Wednesday night, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Steven Knott (dob 8/18/97) and Jeremy Anthony Alvarez (dob 8/7/94) are sc...