James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, pleaded guilty today for his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel” v...

A 20-year-old man accused of killing his friend and dumping the victim's body in a canyon pleaded not guilty today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Phillip Von Wade (dob 3/15/96) of West Covina was charged this morning with one count of murder in case KA113465. The fe...

The Justice Department reached a comprehensive settlement agreement today with the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California State Board of Education to improve their compliance monitoring systems and ensure language instruction services to the approximately 1.4 million English ...

SANTA ANA, California– A Utah man has been arrested for his role in a real estate fraud scheme in which Southern California investors collectively suffered nearly $3.5 million in losses. Shawn Patrick Watkins, 46, of Layton, Utah, was taken into custody on September 1 when he surrendered to FBI...

LOS ANGELES– With guilty pleas this week by a leader of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC), the three lead defendants in the largest racketeering case currently pending in Los Angeles have now pleaded guilty. Tyrine Martinez, also known as “Lil' C-Bone,” 36, of Los Angeles, pleaded gu...

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles nursing home and two physicians who worked at the facility have paid $3,563,140 to resolve civil allegations that they participated in a scheme to improperly transfer patients recruited from the “Skid Row” district to a hospital for medically unnecessary services, and ...

A registered arsonist was sentenced today to 16 years to life in state prison for trying to set a woman's car on fire outside of a Lancaster motel, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On July 26, a jury found Edmund Crigler Pemberton (dob 6/6/60) of Lancaster guilty of tw...

A 26-year-old man was sentenced yesterday afternoon for stealing from a church last month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Aug. 22, Trevor Fix of Long Beach pleaded no contest to three felony counts in case NA104771: two counts of second-degree burglary and one cou...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged today with involuntary manslaughter after a teen was shot in the defendant's home. Matthew Jacob Granados, 21, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of involuntary manslaughter by a lawful act in an unlawful manner with a sentencing enhancement for the ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Los Angeles man was sentenced to four years in state prison today for pimping and pandering a woman in Stanton and Anaheim. Carlos Andrew Morehead, 27, pleaded guilty today to one felony count of pimping and one felony count of pandering by procuring.                        ...

The Justice Department filed a proposed consent decree today with Humboldt County, California, resolving claims that the county violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The consent decree, which is still subject to approval by the U.S. District Court for the Northern Distri...

SANTA ANA, California – After a grand jury issued a federal racketeering indictment alleging corruption by a former clerk in the Orange County Superior Court, authorities this morning arrested 10 defendants on charges stemming from a bribery scheme in which the clerk improperly and illegally reso...

LOS ANGELES– A Sun Valley man pleaded guilty this afternoon to 11 federal charges related to a 2013 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport in which he murdered Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez. Paul Anthony Ciancia, 26, pleaded guilty to first-degree murde...

SANTA ANA, California – A Rancho Mirage woman who was the executive director of a cosmetic surgery center has been named in a superseding indictment that adds new fraud and identity theft charges to a case in which she is accused of participating in a scheme that billed insurance companies $50 mi...

A Sun Valley, California, man pleaded guilty today to charges related to a 2013 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in which he murdered a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, Secretary Jeh Johnson of the Department of Homeland S...

LOS ANGELES– The United States Attorney's Office is hosting a conference next week that will bring together first responders and experts who will provide their insights on last year's terrorist attack in San Bernardino and important lessons learned that can be applied to other large-scale incide...

LOS ANGELES– The president of an Anaheim-based bulk mailing company this week paid the United States $3 million to resolve a federal investigation into allegations that the mailer systematically misclassified postage and defrauded the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) out of millions of dollars in post...

An 18-year-old man pleaded not guilty yesterday to stabbing his teenage ex-girlfriend last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jason Scott Gustin (dob 10/21/97) of Azusa has been charged with two felony counts in case GA099518: attempted murder and aggravated mayhem...

A 40-year-old man was sentenced today to 26 years to life in state prison for the 2002 murder of a man found dead at the Port of Long Beach, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Aug. 5, a jury found Stewart Maua Teofilo (dob 3/14/76) guilty of first-degree murder in cas...

A 29-year-old man was sentenced today to nine years in state prison for getting into a physical altercation with a family member that resulted in a death, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Aug. 30, Ramon Velasquez Jr. of Compton pleaded no contest to a felony count o...

A German man was found guilty today for setting a series of fires over several days during the holiday season five years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for less than a day before finding Harry Burkhart, 29, guilty of 25 counts of arson of prop...

A Pollock Pines, California, woman who owned a tax return preparation business and two of her employees, pleaded guilty to charges related to filing more than 250 false claims for refund, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department's T...

A 28-year-old man was sentenced today to 12 years in state prison for burglarizing a home that resulted in the fatal shooting of a fellow burglar, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On Aug. 22, a jury found Gus Polly Adams guilty of two felony counts in case NA099761: fi...

LOS ANGELES– The former operator of the Normandie Club in Gardena has been ordered to pay a $1 million criminal fine and to forfeit nearly $1.4 million after pleading guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to report large cash transactions to federal authorities. During a federal c...

LOS ANGELES– Two doctors who each operated medical offices in Lynwood have been arrested on federal drug charges that allege they issued prescriptions for narcotics and sedatives without a medical purpose. The two doctors were charged by the United States Attorney's Office in conjunction with a...