U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California
Recent News About U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California
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A federal grand jury has indicted a former Culver City government employee on charges related to the production and possession of child pornography involving a 7-year-old girl enrolled in an after-school program.
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An Orange County resident and co-founder of the company formerly known as Aspiration Partners Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud charges after being accused of defrauding investors and lenders out of more than $248 million.
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A federal grand jury has indicted Adrian Andrew Martinez, 20, of Pico Rivera, on a charge of conspiracy to impede a federal officer.
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A North Hollywood woman has agreed to plead guilty to five federal charges related to drug distribution, including providing the ketamine that led to the death of actor Matthew Perry in October 2023, according to the Justice Department.
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A Chinese national living illegally in the United States was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for exporting firearms, ammunition, and sensitive technology to North Korea.
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José Ángel Del Villar, the CEO of Latin music conglomerate Del Records and Del Entertainment Inc., was sentenced to four years in federal prison for violating the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.
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A Chinese national has been sentenced to 28 months in federal prison for laundering approximately $3.5 million obtained from victims of investment scams known as “pig butchering” schemes.
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A leader of the Whittier-based Quiet Village (QV) street gang has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to violent crimes, including a fatal shooting in 2022.
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Federal and local authorities arrested six individuals in Los Angeles as part of a crackdown on an alleged sex trafficking ring operated by members and associates of the Hoover Criminal Gang.
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A Laguna Niguel resident has admitted to firing a semi-automatic rifle at an Orange County Sheriff’s Department helicopter from his home last year.
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A federal grand jury has indicted two individuals following an anti-immigration enforcement protest that took place last month in downtown Los Angeles.
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A federal grand jury has indicted Joshua Mandel, a 46-year-old film production accountant from Woodland Hills, alleging he embezzled more than $1.9 million from independent film productions that employed him.
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A federal grand jury has indicted Jacob Daniel Terrazas, 30, of Paramount, on a charge of assaulting a federal employee with a deadly and dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury.
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A man from Fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area has been charged with stealing rare and historical Chinese manuscripts valued at about $216,000 from a university library system, according to an announcement by the Justice Department.
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A San Bernardino County man was arrested on federal charges for allegedly obtaining more than $800,000 in COVID-19 relief funds by hiding his prior criminal conviction.
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A Guatemalan national and former Los Angeles resident, Miguel Angel Batz Jr., was extradited from Guatemala to the United States and arraigned on federal charges in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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A Glendale resident has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for her role in a hospice fraud scheme that resulted in more than $10 million in false Medicare claims.
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Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in Los Angeles on allegations of illegally exporting sensitive microchips used in artificial intelligence applications to China.
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A Romanian citizen living in Hollywood was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a scheme that skimmed tens of thousands of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards from ATMs and point-of-sale terminals across California and New...
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A former San Gabriel Valley resident and financial television analyst was sentenced to five years in federal prison for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars.