A federal judge sentenced Marc Antrim, 43,, a  former Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy to 84 months in federal prison for orchestrating and leading a $2 million armed robbery – staged as a legitimate law enforcement search – at a downtown Los Angeles warehouse where more than half a ...

    The feds arested Adolfo Schoneke, 43, of Torrance, and his sister, Bianca Gonzalez, a.k.a. Blanca Schoneke, 38, of Walnut,  a Southern California brother-and-sister team  on federal charges alleging they orchestrated a $6 million real estate fraud scam in which they listed homes without the o...

Investigators Estimate Victims of Ponzi Scheme Put Nearly One-Quarter Billion Dollars into Company that Has Not Been Repaid           The feds arrested Zachary Joseph Horwitz aka Zach Avery, 34, a Beverlywood man, on a federal criminal complaint alleging that victims put $227 million – investment...

A federal judge sentenced Paul James Hayes II, 52,  a former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Complex, Victorville to 15 months in federal prison for taking more than $15,000 in cash bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband – including methamphetamine an...

           A federal judge sentenced Ali F. Elmezayen, 45, to 212 years in federal prison for intentionally driving his ex-wife and two disabled sons off a wharf at the Port of Los Angeles into the ocean – drowning the boys who were trapped in the car – to collect on accidental death insurance po...

            Yi Chen, aka “Brian Chen,” 33, of Monrovia, pleaded not guilty this afternoon to charges in a 21-count grand jury indictment that alleges conspiracy, visa fraud and aggravated identity theft. The charges stem from a scheme that used bogus transcripts, ghostwritten admissions essays, a...

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          A federal judge sentenced Imaad Shah Zuberi, 50, of Arcadia,  venture capitalist and political fundraiser, to 144 months in federal prison for falsifying records to conceal his work as a foreign agent while lobbying high-level U.S. government officials, evading the payment of millions o...

          Bonifacio Jastilana Marinas, 50,  a San Dimas man pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal mail fraud charge that he obtained more than $500,000 in COVID-19-related unemployment benefits in the names of foreign nationals he falsely claimed were local real estate agents hit hard financ...

A federal judge sentenced Nam Hyun Lee, 62, a.k.a. “Daniel Lee,” a South Korean man living illegal  in the U.S., to 46 months in federal prison for illegally importing bulk quantities of erectile dysfunction drugs that he marketed as herbal male sexual enhancement products that earned him million...

A federal judge sentenced Shant Ohanian, 38, a disbarred lawyer to 180 monthsin federal prison for stealing more than $4 million from his clients through various ways including collecting fees for work he never performed. Ohanian pleaded guilty in June 2019 to one count of wire fraud and has been...

          A federal judge sentenced Jorge Esteban Sanchez Ramos, 24, to 18months in federal prison for blackmailing female friends and acquaintances on Facebook by threatening to publish nude photographs and videos of them unless they sent him more sexually explicit images. Ramos pleaded guilty i...

          The feds charged Hovik Dagesian, 39, with illegally selling firearms – including several “ghost guns” – out of his downtown Los Angeles business,  DTLA Hookah Lounge, four times between October 30, 2020 and January 8, 2021, Dagesian illegally sold 10 firearms, including an AR-15-style s...

Ricardo Pacheco, a former Baldwin Park city councilmember has pleaded guilty to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes – including $20,000 in cash – from a Baldwin Park Police officer working at the FBI's direction, in exchange for the councilmember's political support of the Baldwin Park Polic...

           A federal judge sentenced former Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitchell Englander to 14 months in federal prison for his conduct surrounding his obstruction of a public corruption investigation into his acceptance of gifts – including $15,000 in cash – from a businessman during trips ...

           A federal judge sentenced Marie Fulle, 38, a former Comerica bank branch manager, to 41 months in federal prison for stealing more than $1 million from an elderly customer with dementia, and then using it for her personal expenses, including gambling and buying luxury items.   Fulle pl...

            The feds charged Gueorgui Hristov Pantchev, 49, of West Los Angeles, who moved to an apartment blocks from the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center with  a federal stalking charge that alleges he harassed two women doctors at the hospital and three other women who work at ...

            A federal judge sentenced Mike Barry Brior, 43, who worked at the Orange Unified School District for 18 years to 72 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, specifically sending image and video files of explicit sexual conduct involving young children via the Kik i...

           A federal judge sentenced John S. Romero, 74, the former president of a Colton-based labor union, to 144 months in federal prison for stealing nearly $800,000 from the union's health plan trust fund, which he used to pay for personal expenses including legal bills and a car loan for hi...

          Cheryl Perez-Castaneda, 58 acted as a “señora” – or a high-level female associate for an imprisoned Mexican Mafia member – got 144 months in federal prison for using her power on the street to solicit a murder and for participating in a carjacking attempt that resulted in a shooting. Sh...

Carl De Vera Bennington, 34 pleaded guilty to two federal cyberstalking charges for his multiyear internet harassment campaign against two teenage girls who rejected his sexual advances. Bennington sent one teenager unsolicited online messages for several years. When she blocked him from contacti...

DECEMBER 7, 2020 After his swearing in today, District Attorney George Gascón issued a number of new directives, drastically changing the landscape of criminal law in Los Angeles County. While the directives are directed at the District Attorney's office, a number of them may be directly relevant...

The Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today released a new report, Roadmap to Implementing an Effective Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Program, with its partners at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). Drones, as UAS are generally known, p...

              A federal Judge sentenced Chaunta A. Bashir, a.k.a. “taytheonly,” 27, to 300 months in federal prison for producing dozens of sexually explicit images and videos of children, including videos that were recorded on his Snapchat and Facebook social media accounts. He pled guilty to on...

The feds charged Jerry Nehl Boylan, 67, the captain of the P/V Conception, a Santa Barbara-based dive boat that caught fire last year near Santa Cruz Island, resulting in the 33 passenger and one crew member's deaths of 33 passengers and one crew member, with 34 counts of seaman's manslaughter. A...