VIRGINIA Between January 2018 and October 2021, Mark Black, 50, of Arlington, Virginia, was a member of two online groups dedicated to exploiting children, according to officials. The goal of the two…
Romanian Found Guilty of Stealing IDs of Victims of Public Assistance to Fraudulently Get EBT Funds
SANTA ANA, California A federal judge Tuesday found a Romanian man guilty of using his victims’ identities to withdraw money from their public assistance accounts without their consent, officials stated. After a…
Phoenix Man Sentenced to 26 Years in Federal Prison for Armed Robbery Spree That Ended in a Violent High-Speed Chase
RIVERSIDE, California An Arizona man was sentenced today to 312 months in federal prison for committing armed robberies of nine stores in Southern California and Arizona during a crime spree in the…
South L.A. Gang Member Sentenced to More Than 15 Years in Prison for Fentanyl and Weapons Convictions
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…
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…
Two Tax Shelter Promoters Sentenced to 25 Years and 23 Years for Billion-Dollar Tax Scheme
Sold Over $1.3 Billion in Fraudulent Tax Deductions Two men were sentenced today for crimes arising from their organization, promotion, and sale of abusive syndicated conservation easement tax shelters, officials stated. Jack…
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…