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...

RIVERSIDE, California– A man facing federal charges related to a $10 million lien filed against an Internal Revenue Service employee has been ordered held without bond pending trial after being arrested last week by federal agents. James R. Vanderveldt was arrested Thursday morning and arraigned ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A gang member was sentenced to 101 years and eight months to life in state prison today for the murder of one woman, attempted murder of a female bystander and assault of a man. Irvin Tellez, 27, Garden Grove, was found guilty by a jury on Sept. 29, 2015, of one felony count e...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver was sentenced to 18 years to life in state prison today for the murder of an elderly woman and injury of her grandson in a hit-and-run crash. Kelly Michele Wolfe, 47, Capistrano Beach, was found guilty by a jury on Sept. 28, 2015, of one felony count each of m...

Damacio Diaz, 43, of McFarland, California, a detective with the Bakersfield, California, Police Department (BPD), was arrested today, charged with abusing his position of trust as a police detective when he conspired with and assisted a narcotics dealer in the operation of the dealer's drug orga...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted yesterday of the shooting murder of his friend as the victim sat in his car in Buena Park. Jonathan Peterson, 35, Buena Park, was found guilty by a jury yesterday, Nov. 18, 2015, of one felony count of first degree murder, and a sentencing enhancement for t...

SAN DIEGO– The owner of a Glendale-based ride-sharing business pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal wire fraud charges, admitting that he illegally generated over $13 million in profits by selling more than 30,000 Apple iPhones fraudulently obtained from Verizon Wireless at substantially disc...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A daughter was convicted today of shooting and murdering her 96-year-old mother. Christine Marie Reynolds, 72, Rossmoor, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of first degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal discharge of a firearm causing death. S...

LOS ANGELES– The United States has returned approximately $11.7 million in civilly forfeited fraud proceeds to more than 1,000 victims who invested or deposited money with e-Bullion.com, a website that operated for years as an illegal money-transmitting business. The funds were disbursed to e-Bul...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Former Orange County Assessor Webster Guillory was convicted today of filing false nomination papers in a re-election bid for County Assessor in the June 2014 Orange County primary election. Webster James Guillory, 71, Newport Beach, was found guilty by a jury of two misdemean...

FRESNO – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms Special Agents have removed more than 500 firearms from a single individual that is legally barred from owning them and is in the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS) database.  T...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted today of strangling and murdering his wife in their Irvine apartment. Shalabh Rastogi, 42, Irvine, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of first degree murder. Rastogi faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in state prison at his sentencing ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer is scheduled to face trial tomorrow on charges 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, is charged with ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Two violent criminal street gangs in the City of Placentia have been preliminarily enjoined from terrorizing the community and acting as a public nuisance, marking the 14th and 15th injunctions to be brought against Orange County gangs. There were 51 participants served betwee...

LOS ANGELES– Concluding one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever seen in Southern California, two men who operated a Calabasas firm at the center of a scam that cost victims approximately $135 million were sentenced today, with one man being ordered to serve nine years, and the other a decade, in fe...

LOS ANGELES– A San Fernando Valley man who hacked into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on a well-known “revenge porn” website was sentenced today to 25 months in federal prison on computer crime and identity theft charges. Charles Evens, 26, of Studio City, was sentenc...

LOS ANGELES– The former chief information officer for the Screen Actors Guild's Producers Pension and Health Plan (PPHP) has pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return in which he failed to report income he received from contractors hired to upgrade the PPHP computer system. Nader Karimi, 51, of...

A federal court in San Diego, California, has permanently barred Lawrence Preston Siegel from preparing federal tax returns for others, providing tax advice for compensation or any promise of compensation and working for any business that provides tax advice or prepares tax returns, the Justice D...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced today for owing nearly $2 million from a tax evasion and insurance fraud scheme. Rand Robert Gordon, 61, Laguna Hills, pleaded guilty Feb. 19, 2015, to five felony counts of misrepresenting facts to the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF), one felony c...

A 62-year-old man who kidnapped a 4-year-old girl from her front yard was found guilty today by an Antelope Valley jury, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami said Earl Duane Williams of Los Angeles was found guilty of kidnapping to commi...

LOS ANGELES– An attorney who prosecutors believe took at least $8 million in investment capital from clients and used the funds for personal expenses and luxury items pleaded guilty this morning to wire fraud and tax evasion charges. Stephen Young Kang, 46, of Newport Beach, pleaded guilty before...

LOS ANGELES – A man who was recently extradited from Mexico to face federal charges related to the illegal trafficking of the world's largest freshwater fish pleaded guilty this afternoon to smuggling two Arapaima gigas to Canada. Isaac Zimerman, 66, who formerly resided in West Hills, pleaded g...

SAN DIEGO – Eight medical professionals and associates are charged in federal grand jury indictments with buying and selling patients in a bribery scheme involving $25 million in improper claims for medical services and devices which were then billed to California Workers' Compensation insurance ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today for the special circumstances strangling-murder of a 61-year-old victim inside a Stanton motel room. Michael Anthony Aparicio, 27, Anaheim, is charged with one felony count of special circumstances murder with a sentencing enhancement a...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A felon who had two of his prior felony convictions reduced to misdemeanors under Proposition 47 (Prop 47), which resulted in his release from custody, was charged today with shooting his firearm at police officers while leading them on a chase. Jimmy Hoang Truong, 28, Santa A...