LOS ANGELES– A federal grand jury today indicted former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on federal charges alleging that he conspired to obstruct justice, obstructed justice, and lied to the federal government. The case against Baca is the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of...

LOS ANGELES – A Florida man accused of filing false and fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service claiming nearly $470,000 in fictitious tax refunds and then attempting to file false liens and encumbrances in retaliation against IRS employees for not paying his tax refund claims ha...

A music promoter and founder of the Electric Daisy Carnival pleaded no contest today to one count of conflict of interest and agreed to pay $150,000 to Los Angeles County for his role in the 2012 Coliseum embezzlement and bribery case, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was charged today with kidnapping a 4-year-old boy who was reported missing and found after Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) located the victim thanks to the assistance of Good Samaritans. Armando Torreblanca Nunez, 28, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of ki...

A 43-year-old man was sentenced today to four years in state prison for the death of his cousin who was killed when the car they were in struck a light pole in Lincoln Heights, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. In June, Jose Noe Lugo pleaded no contest to one count of g...

A Los Angeles woman was sentenced today to 23 years in state prison for her role in a robbery of a Montebello restaurant that resulted in the fatal shooting of two of her accomplices, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Toni Danielle Lopez, 22, pleaded no contest to one c...

Three alleged gang members charged with killing a Downey police officer last November now face additional counts including a string of armed robberies and shootings, some just hours before the officer was gunned down, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Prosecutors ...

A gang member was sentenced today to 94 years to life in state prison for shooting a man to death as he stood outside of a Redondo Beach home and later writing a song about the murder, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On June 28, after three hours of deliberations, a j...

FULLERTON, Calif. – A man was convicted today of stabbing and murdering an acquaintance after chasing and stalking him before fleeing to Mexico. Mario Alberto Rodriguez, 26, Santa Ana, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former mosque volunteer is scheduled to be arraigned today on additional charges for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl who came forward after seeing media coverage of prior sexual assaults. Ahmad Henry Osman, 54, Tustin, is charged with seven felony counts of performing ...

A San Pablo, California, resident pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to commit theft of government property, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department's Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch of the Northern District of...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to face trial tomorrow for the stabbing-murder of a stranger in a parking lot. Daniel Perez Munoz, 23, Garden Grove, is charged with one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife. If convicted, Perez Munoz faces a m...

LOS ANGELES– A California man who was found guilty at trial of traveling to Cambodia to have illicit sexual conduct with young girls was sentenced today to 70 years in federal prison and $40,000 restitution to a victim. Ronald Gerard Boyajian, 55, who previously resided in Menlo Park and has sp...

A Los Angeles, California, businessman was charged today in an information, which charges one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Atto...

LOS ANGELES– A businessman who defrauded more than 300 investors in a precious metal investment scam was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud and money laundering offenses in a case that caused victims to lose nearly $11 million. Bruce Richard S...

LOS ANGELES– The Mayor of South El Monte was charged today with bribery for accepting money from a contractor doing business with the city, as well as accepting a bribe during an FBI undercover operation. In conjunction with the case filed today, Luis Aguinaga, 48, of South El Monte, agreed to ...

LOS ANGELES– A North Hollywood man surrendered to U.S. Marshals this morning after an arrest warrant was issued on federal charges of aiding and abetting the illegal smuggling of protected elephant ivory. Cesar Ernesto Gutierrez, 75, was charged in a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in United...

LOS ANGELES– Two men who earned the moniker the “Cowboy Gun Bandits” for brandishing a large-caliber revolver during a series of robberies – starting with gas stations and culminating in a bank robbery that netted them over $55,000 – were convicted today in federal court. Dominic Dorsey, 48, of...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A parole agent was arrested yesterday on charges of exchanging embezzled California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) funds for narcotics prescribed to a parolee. Scott Patric Keblis, 49, Chino, is charged with one felony count of embezzlement by a public emp...

SANTA ANA, California– A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment that now accuses a Laguna Beach man of defrauding victims out of more than $3 million in an investment fraud scam related to green energy. Peter Heinrich Conrad Reinert, 61, was arrested in April 2015 after a gran...

SANTA ANA, California– An Orange County man who allegedly posed as an agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an attempt to extort money from at least one female victim made his first federal court appearance this afternoon after being charged with impersonating a federal of...

LOS ANGELES– A longtime employee of two Los Angeles-area businesses involved in earring manufacturing was charged today with wire fraud for stealing approximately $2 million from the companies. In conjunction with the case filed today, Claudia Alvarez Calderon, 45, of La Crescenta, agreed to pl...

LOS ANGELES– A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was sentenced today to 10 months in federal prison for accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a Korean businessman. Joohoon David Lee, 43, who currently reside...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A striker was arraigned Friday, July 22, 2016, for the robbery of five Fountain Valley grocery and drug stores by threatening cashiers with a firearm. John Allen Wagner, 48, Westminster, is charged with five counts of second degree robbery. Wagner faces sentencing enhancemen...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Six defendants were charged today with the stabbing murder of a man in a San Juan Capistrano park. Ashkan Dezhangfard, 21, Brion Cairo Hyde, 22, and Anjelica Marie Shibata, 28, of San Juan Capistrano, Siavash Hosseinaliarhani, 18, and Ryan Timothy Huebner, 20, of Laguna Niguel...