SANTA ANA, Calif. – A parolee sex offender on a GPS monitoring device was sentenced Friday, June 17, 2016, to eight years in state prison for the pandering and attempted pimping of an 18-year-old woman. Eddie Bridges III, 38, Compton, was found guilty by a jury on July 29, 2015, of one felony cou...

SAN DIEGO — Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the arrest of three individuals as part of an ongoing investigation into a sex trafficking case in San Diego.  The joint investigation and operation, “Operation Hotel Tango,” was conducted by the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force,...

FULLERTON, Calif. – Additional charges were filed today against the former Finance Services Manager for the City of Placentia (Placentia) charged with embezzling $5.2 million from the city. Michael Minh Nguyen, 34, Irvine, is charged with an additional 19 felony counts of misappropriation of publ...

LOS ANGELES– Six Coachella Valley residents have been charged by federal prosecutors with drug trafficking offenses, and four of the men face additional counts for illegal possession of a firearm. Four of the men were arrested this morning as part of a joint operation involving both federal and...

LOS ANGELES – A British man who was previously charged with travelling to the Coachella Valley to have sex with pre-teen boys was charged today in a superseding indictment that adds child pornography charges. Paul Charles Wilkins, 70, of Littleport in East Cambridgeshire, England, a dual United ...

LOS ANGELES– Law enforcement authorities this morning arrested four defendants who are charged in a federal indictment with participating in a conspiracy that planned and executed a series of brazen smash-and-grab robberies that targeted millions of dollars worth of Rolex and other high-end Swis...

Mollie Halpern: The FBI is offering an up to $50,000 reward for the conviction of the East Area Rapist. The unknown suspect committed more than 45 rapes and a dozen homicides between 1976 and 1986. Marcus Knutson: During that time frame, everybody was in fear. This guy was terrorizing the communi...

A 59-year-old man has entered a no contest plea for the death of a woman who had recently become his roommate, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Ani Bailey said Mario Rene Villalobos of North Hills pleaded no contest Tuesday to one count of volu...

A 59-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his children's mother in a domestic violence incident pleaded not guilty today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Ngounsay Keo (dob 12/12/56) of Long Beach has been charged with three felony counts in case NA103998: one coun...

SANTA ANA, California– A Yorba Linda chiropractor who solicited more than $2 million from investors in a real estate scam has been sentenced to four years in federal prison. Bobby Hamby, 56, of Yorba Linda, was sentenced Monday afternoon by United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who als...

A 21-year-old transient was charged today with capital murder for allegedly setting fire to a vacant building in the Westlake District that left five people dead, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Johnny Josue Sanchez (dob 7/14/94) is scheduled to be arraigned after 2 p...

SANTA ANA, California– A former Newport Beach resident has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme through his Orange County-based company that defrauded hundreds of investors out nearly $50 million. Joseph J. Lampariello, 62, who recently relocated to Huntingt...

Two men have been charged with killing two men after they allegedly fled in their vehicle to Tarzana after a drug deal gone bad in Woodland Hills, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Guillermo Terán (dob 7/14/92) of Oxnard and Tomás Ramos Ochoa (dob 3/7/82) of Los Angeles...

LOS ANGELES – As a result of a racketeering indictment issued last week by a federal grand jury, 31 members and associates of a Santa Fe Springs-based street gang were arrested today on charges related to a wide-ranging criminal enterprise controlled by a member of the Mexican Mafia that alleged...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A Garden Grove man was convicted today of shooting and murdering a man and attempting to murder two women in Santa Ana. Dustin Sean Ross McDonald, 24, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of first degree murder, two felony counts of attempted murder with premeditatio...

SANTA ANA, California– A federal grand jury has indicted a doctor who operated a medical clinic in Fountain Valley, as well as two physician assistants who worked at the clinic, on federal drug trafficking charges that allege they issued prescriptions for dangerous and addictive narcotics withou...

LOS ANGELES– Former California State Senator Ronald S. Calderon has agreed to plead guilty to a federal corruption charge and admits in a plea agreement filed today that he accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for performing official acts as a legislator. Ron Calderon, 58...

A former actor was sentenced today to 40 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting his wife at their Los Angeles home in front of the couple's two young sons, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Michael Andrew Jace, 53, was found guilty last month of the second-d...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) today turned over to the court a complete copy of the newly obtained Special Handling Log (SH Log) from the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD), and filed briefs to seal privileged data and request a court hearing to turn over d...

Amin al-Baroudi, 50, a Syrian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, formerly of Irvine, California, was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for conspiring to export U.S.-origin goods from the United States to Syria in violation of sanctions imposed on Syria by the U.S. government. The sentence was an...

RIVERSIDE – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the arrests of 52 individuals and the seizure of 67 firearms, including assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons, $95,700 in currency, and methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana with a total street value of $1.6 million, as part of a...

U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Robert Gilbeau pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges that he lied to federal investigators to conceal his illicit years-long relationship with Leonard Glenn Francis, owner of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), the foreign defense contractor at the center of a mass...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man was sentenced today to 14 years in state prison for the human trafficking, pimping, and pandering of a woman, and attempting to pimp another woman by threatening both victims. The defendant received nearly $50,000 from the trafficking of one of the victims. Johnny Lee Gu...

Wenxia Man, aka Wency Man, 45, of San Diego, was convicted today by a federal jury in the Southern District of Florida of conspiring to export and cause the export of fighter jet engines, an unmanned aerial vehicle – commonly known as a drone – and related technical data to the People's Republic ...

LOS ANGELES– A Long Beach-based lobbyist, whose clients included illegal marijuana stores in Long Beach, has been charged with filing a false tax return and failing to report more than three-quarters of a million dollars in income over a six-year period. Carl A. Kemp, 43, of Long Beach, the own...