LOS ANGELES A member of the South Los Angeles-based Florencia 13 street gang who admitted to distributing kilograms of methamphetamine and cocaine and to selling dozens of firearms and 16 machine gun…
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Defendant in Multimillion-Dollar Boiler Room Scam That Targeted Timeshare Owners Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
LOS ANGELES A former Long Beach resident was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for leading a telemarketing scheme in which boiler room tactics were used to scam dozens of…
Former CEO of Whittier Health in California Sentenced to 10 Years for Running Multimillion-Dollar Medi-Cal Scheme
LOS ANGELES The former president and CEO of a Whittier medical clinic was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for submitting fraudulent billings to a Medi-Cal healthcare program that provides…
Texas Man Guilty of Kidnapping 13-Year-Old Girl at Gunpoint, Sexually Assaulting Teen
LOS ANGELES A Texas man pleaded guilty Friday to kidnapping a 13-year-old girl at gunpoint last year in San Antonio, officials stated. Steven Robert Sablan admitted that he drove her to California,…
Calif. Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Bombing Aliso Viejo Spa That Killed His Ex-Girlfriend, Injured Two Others
LOS ANGELES A Long Beach man was sentenced to life plus an additional 30 years in federal prison for building and planting a package bomb that detonated inside an Aliso Viejo day…
DOJ Report: ‘cascading failures’ and ‘no urgency’ during Uvalde, Texas, shooting
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Police officials who responded to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas “demonstrated no urgency” in setting up a command post and failed to treat the killings…
Calif. Woman Charged with Drug-Related Crimes, Including Distributing Fentany That Resulted in a Death last year
LOS ANGELES A San Luis Obispo County woman was arraigned Wednesday on a federal grand jury indictment alleging, among other crimes, that she knowingly distributed fentanyl, the use of which resulted in…
Three Allegedly Operated a Multimillion-Dollar Pyramid Scheme Named 8 Figure Dream Lifestyle
WASHINGTON An indictment unsealed Friday charged a U.S. citizen residing in Canada for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar pyramid scheme named 8 Figure Dream Lifestyle LLC (8FDL). Guilty pleas by his co-conspirators, who participated…
Man Who Used Machete to Attack Three NYPD Officers Pleaded Guilty of Attempted Murder
Trevor Bickford Traveled to the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration in 2022 for the Purpose of Killing U.S. Officials in the Name of Radical Islamic Jihad and Used a Machete-Style Knife…
North Carolina Man Convicted of Federal Hate Crimes for Racially Motivated Attacks Against a Black and a Hispanic Man
A jury Thursday in Greensboro, North Carolina, convicted Marian Hudak, 52, for committing a hate crime against a black man and a Hispanic man on separate occasions, officials stated. It’s one thing…
Jury Indicts Calif. Lawyer for Money Laundering, Tax Evasion and Obstructing Probe of $2 Million Payment from Swiss Oil Company
LOS ANGELES A federal grand jury indicted a Koreatown lawyer with multiple felonies arising from an alleged $2.1 million bribe. Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo allegedly received the award while serving as an officer…
Virginia Animal Breeders Surrender About 200 Dogs and Cats for Alleged Mistreatment of Animals
Two North Chesterfield, Virginia, animal breeders, Elena Mikirticheva and Andrey Mikirtichev, recently surrendered about 200 dogs and cats following court-ordered federal injunctive relief, officials announced Tuesday. The Justice Department, on behalf of…