A Ukiah, California, restaurateur pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen for the Northern District of California to corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the due administration of the internal revenue laws and to harboring illegal aliens for profit, announced Principal Deputy ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged today with shooting at two on-duty Brea Police Department (BPD) officers through a motel wall when they responded to a call to check his welfare. Thomas Michael Dawson, 56, Yorba Linda, is charged with two felony counts of assault with a firearm on a peace of...

The former vice president of a California wholesale tool company was sentenced to 63 months in prison today for his role in a scheme to defraud East West Bank that resulted in losses of over $9 million. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U...

SANTA ANA, California– An Orange County man who pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately $1.4 million from his employer – while he was pending sentencing in another $2.6 million embezzlement case – has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison. Peter Suk Lee, 49, a resident of the City o...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was convicted today of the stabbing-murder of a stranger in a parking lot. Daniel Perez Munoz, 23, Garden Grove, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife. Perez Munoz faces a maximum sentence o...

LOS ANGELES – The 16th and final defendant in a racketeering indictment that targeted the East Coast Crips (ECC) street gang, which claims a large swath of territory in South Los Angeles, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to federal charges. Gregory Sutton Jr., 40, of South ...

A 25-year-old man was sentenced today to 15 years to life in state prison for driving under the influence of alcohol and killing a man who was traveling home from work, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's sentencing, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carl...

FULLERTON, Calif. – A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) deputy was convicted today of threatening and assaulting a woman including lighting her hair on fire. Alejandro Flores, 34, Buena Park, pleaded guilty today, Aug. 15, 2016, to three felony counts of domestic battery with corpora...

The Justice Department reached an agreement today with TEG Staffing Inc., also known as Eastridge Workforce Solutions, a temporary staffing agency headquartered in San Diego, to resolve allegations that their Mira Mesa, California, office discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in...

LOS ANGELES– A San Pedro man who responded to an Internet advertisement to have sex with a young girl and sent a photograph of his genitals has pleaded guilty to a federal obscenity charge. Joshua Paul Crouch, 28, pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor. A...

An e-commerce retailer pleaded guilty today for conspiring to fix the prices of posters sold online, the Department of Justice announced today. Trod Ltd. (doing business as Buy 4 Less, Buy For Less and Buy-For-Less-Online), a U.K. company headquartered in Birmingham, England, pleaded guilty to fi...

LOS ANGELES– A man who trafficked a 17-year-old girl from Nevada to Southern California and forced her to work as a prostitute has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison. Kenyati Jakeen Rahh-Potts, 27, of Hahira, Georgia, was sentenced on Monday by United States District Judge Michael W....

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man previously dubbed the Assistant Coach Bandit by the FBI is facing additional charges for defrauding over $40,000 from six victims through a loan modification scam. James Allen Ramsdell, 51, Huntington Beach, was additionally charged today with five felony counts of grand...

RIVERSIDE, California–The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) has arrested six Inland Empire residents who are charged in indictments that allege federal crimes related to mail theft. The six arrested over the past two weeks are among 11 defendants who have been charged by a federal ...

LOS ANGELES– A longtime U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been arrested on federal charges that allege that he stole mail from the International Mail Facility (IMF) in Torrance and arranged to have an accomplice deposit checks obtained from the stolen mail. Carlos Canjura, 54...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – Vietnamese entertainer “Minh Beo” was convicted today of sexually assaulting a minor boy and attempting to commit a lewd act on a fictitious minor. Minh Quang Hong, who goes by the stage name “Minh Beo”, 38, Garden Grove, pleaded guilty today to one felony count of oral copu...

The Justice Department announced today that Lincoln Military Housing, which owns and operates dozens of on-base and off-base military housing communities throughout Southern California, has agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that it unlawfully evicted active-duty servicemembers and the...

SAN DIEGO– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that California has reached a $252,000 settlement with two privatized military housing contractors over the companies' unlawful evictions of 18 military servicemembers and their families from private military housing complexes in San Di...

The Department of Justice announced that an Orange County, California, man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California, for his role as the owner and operator of a multi-million dollar fraudulent mortgage modification scheme that posed as a successful law firm to defraud strugg...

A priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose pleaded guilty today to four counts of tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department's Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch for the Northern District of California ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced to three years in state prison today for pimping and pandering two women he drove from Fresno to Orange County to solicit commercial sex. Kurtis Chappell, 23, Fresno, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of pimping, two felony counts of pandering by procurin...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) deputy has been charged with unauthorized access of a law enforcement database to view criminal histories. Angel Lora Guerrero, 57, Santa Ana, is charged with two misdemeanor counts of receiving unauthorized privileged information. ...

LOS ANGELES –A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against a Los Angeles burger stand owner who distributed cocaine base in the form of crack cocaine. Brian Sawyers, 57, of Los Angeles, was found guilty yesterday of two felony offenses of distribution of cocaine base in the form of crack co...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A speeding driver was convicted yesterday and sentenced to 11 years in state prison for killing two people by crashing into their car after driving through a stop sign in Santa Ana. Jorge Ocampo, 24, Santa Ana, pleaded guilty yesterday, Aug. 4, 2016, to two felony counts of ve...

LOS ANGELES– The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that the United States Marshals Service seized more than 100 cases of products labeled as containing the dangerous and unapproved ingredient Kratom. The product...