Edgar Sargsyan, 39, an attorney with law offices in Beverly Hills, agreed to plead guilty to five federal offenses – one related to a credit card “bust-out” scheme, and the others related to more than $250,000 in bribes he paid to two federal agents for assistance that included sensi...

           Federal agents arrested Babak Broumand, 53, of Lafayette, California, ho retired from the FBI last year after 20 years as a special agent was arrested today on a federal criminal charge alleging he conspired to accept more than $200,000 in cash bribes and gifts in exchange for providin...

In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment guarantees a right to a unanimous jury – but that defendants in state trials do not have such a right. Today, by a vote of 6-3, the justices reversed course, holding that the Sixth Amendment establishes a right to a unanimous jury that app...

            Special agents with the FBI this morning arrested Carl Bennington, 33, of Covina, a San Gabriel Valley man and online promoter of the involuntary celibate (incel) subculture on a federal cyberstalking charge that he conducted an internet harassment campaign against two teenage girls w...

Southern California-Based Company Agrees to Pay Largest-Ever Fine in a Food Safety Case and Implement a Comprehensive Food Safety Compliance Program            Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. has agreed to pay a $25 million criminal fine and institute a comprehensive food-safety program to resolve c...

     Kent R.E. Whitney, 38, pastor of the Westminster-based Church of the Healthy Self has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he orchestrated a church-based investment scam that took in more than $33 million, Whitney agreed to plead guilty to a two-count information charging ...

           Frank Richard Ludlow, 59, a British man was charged with smuggling into the United States mislabeled drugs supposedly to be a treatment for those suffering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Ludlow was charged with one count of introducing misbranded drugs into...

The federal government arrested  Eduardo Moreno, 44, a train engineer at the Port of Los Angeles for allegedly running a locomotive at full speed off the end of rail tracks near the USNS Mercy. The feds charged MOreno with one count of train wrecking as a result of an incident Tuesday afternoon.M...

            Hiu Kit David Chong, a  35 year old former University of Southern California admissions official will plead guilty to a wire fraud charge in a scheme to obtain USC graduate school admission slots for unqualified international students in exchange for thousands of dollars in cash. Hiu ...

The United States Attorney's Office asks that members of the public are urged to report suspected fraud schemes related to the coronavirus and COVID-19 by calling the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) hotline (1-866-720-5721) or sending complaints to the NCDF e-mail address, [email protec...

            Philip Righter, 43, a West Hollywood man, will plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he sold bogus art he claimed was created by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. He also admitted using fake paintings as collateral for loans ...

            A federal judge sentenced the former CEO of an Irvine-based financial services and insurance company, Mehmet Fatih Biyikoglu, a.k.a. “John B.,” 53, of Palm Desert, to 121 months in federal prison for defrauding elderly victims who thought their money was being invested in a certificat...

In response to concerns regarding the Coronavirus/COVID-19, and in light of local, state and federal emergency declarations based upon the virus, Presiding Judge Kevin C. Brazile of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, announced today the following recommendations to all judge...

A federal judge sentenced Edgar Limon, 39a A Mexican National who was charged in the first major narcotics trafficking indictment resulting from an investigation by the Los Angeles Strike Force to 63 months in federal prison for his role in an international narcotics network that transported 21 p...

       A federal judge sentenced Christopher Lazenby, 29, of Homeland in Riverside County man  to 120 months in federal prison for running a narcotics distribution outfit that, in part, stole at least nine doctors' DEA numbers and dates of birth that he used to obtain oxycodone and other prescrip...

A federal judge sentenced Francisco Alvarado Felix, 33, of Hesperia, a convicted felon who brought an assault rifle into a restaurant and brandished it at the manager after employees refused to serve him an alcoholic beverage to 120 months in federal prison.             Felix and a friend visited...

Mitchell Englander, 49, of Santa Monica, a former Los Angeles city councilman, surrendered to FBI agents this morning to face criminal charges that he obstructed an investigation into him accepting cash, female escort services, hotel rooms and expensive meals from a businessman during trips to La...

            A federal judge sentenced  Clifford Kirstein, 29, of Montreal, a Canadian telemarketer, to 41 months in federal prison for conning American senior citizens by impersonating their grandchildren over the telephone and asking for financial help to get the purportedly distressed relatives...

A federal judge sentenced Anna Vishnevsky, 52, of Valley Village, the former owner of a Studio City medical clinic, to 37months in federal prison for submitting  more than $11.5 million in bills to health care benefit programs for unnecessary – and sometimes nonexistent – sleep studies, primarily...

            A federal judge sentenced Jose Loza, a Mexican Mafia member and “shotcaller” of the Santa Fe Springs and Whittier-based Canta Ranas street gang was sentenced today to life plus an additional 30 years in federal prison for leading the wide-ranging criminal enterprise and for murdering ...

A federal judge sented Brandon Michael Fleury, 22, of Santa Ana, California, to 66 months in federal prison for cyberstalking and sending a kidnapping threat to families of victims of a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Fleury used thirteen different Instagram accounts, using aliases including ...

             Carlos Miguel Fernandez, 44, of Norwalk, a former Gardena Police officer got 33 months in federal prison for scheming to purchase “off-roster” firearms not available to the general public and then illegally reselling the firearms for profit. A jury found Fernandez guilty of conspirac...

    A jury convicted White Supremacist Craig Matthew Tanber, 40, of second-degree murder for stabbing Shayan Mazroei several times after Tanber and girlfriend were told to leave The Original Patsy's Irish Pub in September 8, 2015. Tanber's girlfriend, Elizabeth Thornburg, exchanged words with Maz...

            A federal judge sentenced urologist Mark Wilfred Tamarin, 65, of Manhattan Beach to 71 months in federal prison for submitting fraudulent billings totaling more than $700,000 to Medicare for medically unnecessary and nonexistent treatments, sometimes billing for purported patient visi...

FBI agents this morning arrested a Santa Monica man on federal charges stemming from a series of distributed denial-of-service – or DDoS – attacks on a website for a candidate who was campaigning for a California congressional seat. The feds arrested Arthur Jan Dam, 32 based on a criminal complai...