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 former financial TV news analyst, James Arthur McDonald Jr., has agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud, according to an announcement by the Justice Department.
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A former gynecologist from Newport Beach, Mark Albert Rettenmaier, has entered a guilty plea to federal charges related to the possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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A Palmdale resident, Darius Desean Edwards, is set to appear in court today following a federal grand jury indictment.
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A Long Beach resident, Mateo Paul, has admitted to federal charges linked to a 2021 murder during a marijuana transaction in Inglewood.
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A man from Sylmar has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for using Instagram to distribute child sexual abuse material and threaten victims.
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A former school counselor in Riverside County, Matthew Daniel Johnson, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for child sexual exploitation crimes.
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Milton C. Grimes, a veteran lawyer from Los Angeles, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for evading the payment of over $7.2 million in taxes over more than two decades.
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A Montebello resident, Juan Carlos Gutierrez, also known as "Johnny G," has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
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A former Army private has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for crimes related to child sexual exploitation involving minors he met on Snapchat.
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A customs broker from Corona, Frank Seung Noah, has admitted to defrauding clients out of more than $5 million and evading over $1 million in taxes.
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Two Mexican nationals have been charged with stealing cargo from a freight train in the Mojave Desert, according to an announcement by the Justice Department.
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A Texas man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for the kidnapping and repeated assault of a 13-year-old girl.
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A United States Postal Service supervisor has admitted to stealing substantial amounts of money and valuable items from the mail.
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A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy, Trevor James Kirk, has been found guilty of using excessive force in an incident involving a woman outside a supermarket in Lancaster.
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Two men from Hacienda Heights have been arrested on charges related to a smuggling operation involving contraband from China through Los Angeles-area ports.
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A coordinated law enforcement operation in Los Angeles has led to the arrest of five individuals accused of using "skimmed" electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards to create counterfeit cards and illegally withdraw funds meant for low-income...
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A Los Angeles man, Anthony Farrer, who ran a luxury watch consignment business in Beverly Hills known as "The Timepiece Gentleman," has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison.
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A Riverside County man, John Matthew Piecuch, has been sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for producing sexually explicit images of children he met online.
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A Wisconsin man, Anthony Ruben Whisenant, has pleaded guilty to a felony drug offense linked to a 2020 fentanyl transaction that resulted in the death of a fellow U.S. Marine.
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Federal authorities have apprehended eight individuals following a grand jury indictment accusing them of orchestrating a large-scale smuggling operation.