The San Luis Obispo County Jail violates the rights of prisoners by, among other things, failing to provide adequate medical care and subjecting some prisoners to excessive uses of force, according to a Justice Department report that calls upon the jail to make changes to address the constitution...

           A federal judge sentenced a former music teacher,  John Edward Zeretzke, 62, who contracted with several schools to teach music to children, to 183 months in federal prison for producing child pornography.  Eretzke pleaded guilty in August 2020 to one count of production of child porno...

          A federal grand jury this afternoon indicted  John Mathew Piecuch, 61 with sexual exploitation offenses alleging he convinced a preteen girl to send him sexually explicit photos of herself and a younger relative. Piecuch was named in a three-count indictment that charges him with attemp...

RIVERSIDE, California – A federal grand jury indicted John Mathew Piecuch, 61, of  sexual exploitation offenses alleging he convinced a preteen girl to send him sexually explicit photos of herself and a younger relative. Piecuch was indicted with attempted enticement of a minor to engage in crimi...

            A federal jury this afternoon convicted  Mark Steven Domingo, 28, for attempting to bomb a rally in Long Beach for the purpose of causing mass casualties. The jury found him guilty of providing material support to terrorism and attempting to use of a weapon of mass destruction.He face...

The feds charged Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, with foreign murder of United States Nationals for taking his 2-year-old boy and 10-month-old girl to Mexico and killing them. on Monday. A federal criminal complaint filed today charges Coleman with foreign murder of United States nationals. On Saturd...

        A federal judge sentenced Patrick Joseph Soria, 35, to 152 months in federal prison for orchestrating a real estate fraud scheme that victimized more than 2,000 homeowners, involved fraudulent filings that affected the title to properties across the country and caused more than $7 million...

            The feds charged  Helios Raphael Dayspring, a.k.a. “Bobby Dayspring,” 35,  with one count of bribery and one count of subscribing to a false 2018 income tax return that deliberately failed to report millions of dollars in income to the IRS. The federal prosecutors charged Dayspring wi...

     Federal jury found Ed Buck 66 of nine felonies, including giving fatal doses of methamphetamine to two men who died at his apartment. The jury found Buck guilty of two counts of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death, four counts of distribution of methamphetamine, one count of m...

        The feds arrested Douglas J. Chrismas, 77, a noted art dealer on federal charges accusing him of embezzling more than $260,000 from the bankruptcy estate of Ace Gallery, a Miracle Mile-based art gallery, while acting as the estate's trustee and custodian. The feds claim that Chrismas was ...

            Jerome Terry Jr., 45,, an Illinois man pleaded guilty today to a federal sex trafficking charge, admitting that he lured two 19 year old women from Canada with promises of promoting their modeling careers, but instead used force, fraud and/or coercion to cause the victims engage in co...

            The feds charged Erik Christopher Younggren, 34, of Cherry Valley, with attempted possession of firearms and dangerous weapons in a federal facility, a misdemeanor offense that carries a sentence of up to one year in federal prison. Younggren drove to a federal facility in downtown Lo...

          Nizar Farhat, 63, a former Department of Defense civilian official has pleaded guilty to two felony charges for taking tens of thousands of dollars in illegal cash payments from a private contractor to support the contractor's effort to obtain $6.4 million from the government in connect...

            A federal judge sentenced Fred Joseph Stecher Jr., 29  to nearly 20 years in prison for exchanging child pornography – some of which involved infants and toddlers – with others on the internet. When he completes his sentence, he will be placed on supervised release for the rest of his...

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The feds arrested Arturo Ceja III, a South Los Angeles man on federal charges of illegally transporting tons of explosives he bought in Nevada – including dangerous homemade devices that were detonated by police, leading to a massive explosion that destroyed a specially designed containment vehic...

          Federal authorities have arrested Billy Frederick, 51,on charges of producing child pornography, allegedly by developing a relationship with at least one boy in the Philippines who performed sex acts online in exchange for money. Frederick allegedly stored in his Google accounts various...

            LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today returned an 11-count indictment that alleges a Santa Barbara man              The feds charged Darrell Arnold Aviss, 63, of Santa Barbara, was charged today with five counts of wire fraud and six counts of money laundering. He allegedly stole a...

         A federal judge found Tyrome Lewis, 26, a.k.a. “Boobie,”guilty of eight felony federal robbery charges for organizing and leading a crew that committed 15 armed robberies of independent, “mom-and-pop” pharmacies across Southern California, with the intent of illegally selling the stolen ...

    The feds arrested Six California men, four of whom identify as members of Three Percenter militias.  Allan Hostetter, 56, of San Clemente; Russell Taylor, 40, of Ladera Ranch; Erik Scott Warner, 45, of Menifee; Felipe Antonio “Tony” Martinez, 47, of Lake Elsinore; Derek Kinnison, 39, of Lake ...

           A federal jury found Susan H. Poon, 56, a former Orange County chiropractor guilty of federal criminal charges accusing her of defrauding health insurers by fraudulently submitting and causing to be billed $2.2 million in billings for chiropractic services never provided, bogus medical...

      The feds arrested ilit Gagikovna Baltaian, 58 on criminal health care fraud charges arising from her false home health certifications and related fraudulent billings to Medicare. Baltaian, allegedly operated medical clinics in Tujunga and Reseda. From January 2012 to July 2018, Baltaian fal...

            A grand jury indicted Eddy Reyes, 35,with kidnapping his wife in 2016 in an incident that resulted in her death. Claudia Reyes, 21,  was last seen leaving work on the night of May 6, 2016. After Reyes filed a missing person report four days later, the Santa Ana Police Department condu...

 Federal authorities arrested Oumar Sissoko, 59, a Temecula man on federal fraud charges that allege he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) after getting more than $7 million in PPP loan funds for his company that repairs potholes. Sissoko allegedly g...

          A federal judge sentenced Carl De Vera Bennington, who pleaded guilty to two counts of cyberstalking, to 18 months in federal prison for sending hundreds of messages over several years to two victims, including a teenage girl, demanding they engage in sex acts with him and threatening t...