Irvine man’s accomplice sentenced for over $1M in fraudulent COVID-19 loans
LOS ANGELES – A Ventura County man who schemed with an Orange County man to illegally acquire disaster relief funds was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for…
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Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva and CA-45 Leaders endorse Kim Bernice Nguyen for Congress
GARDEN GROVE, CA Coming on the heels of a successful rollout and just four days after announcing her campaign for Congress, Garden Grove City Councilwoman Kim Bernice Nguyen announced a…
Santa Ana man indicted for $1.25M COVID-19 fraud
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com SANTA ANA, California – A federal grand jury today returned an eight-count indictment charging an Orange County man with defrauding California’s unemployment insurance program…
Mayor Amezcua visited the White House and attended the U.S. Conference of Mayors
Santa Ana, CA – Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua visited Washington, D.C. this week to attend the Winter Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors and meet with White…
L.A. man who built equipment to steal your credit card info at gas stations sentenced
SAN DIEGO – A Los Angeles resident was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for his role building specialized devices to steal the financial information of unwitting victims at…
Mexican drug dealer sentenced for transporting cocaine and marijuana into the U.S.
Pedro Alejandro Rubio-Perez, the former leader of a drug trafficking organization that operated in Baja California, Mexico, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in leading an…
The O.C. Housing Finance Trust received $3M in new federal funding
The Orange County Housing Finance Trust (OCHFT) was awarded $3 million in federal funding last week to finance the development of affordable housing including the kind of housing that helps…
Westminster man indicted for selling over 120K Fentanyl pills and other drugs
LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury has indicted two men who allegedly used the darknet and encrypted messaging applications to sell over 120,000 fentanyl-laced pills and other drugs to…
Federal regulation to preserve and fortify DACA takes affect
WASHINGTON— On Monday, October 31, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security’s final rule to preserve and fortify Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) went into effect. The final rule’s implementation…
Federal judge stops Orange County from opening a cold weather shelter in Santa Ana
SANTA ANA, Calif. – The County of Orange will not be allowed to open a planned cold weather shelter operated by the Salvation Army in Santa Ana this winter, a…
OCDA responds to the U.S. Department of Justice report on jailhouse informants
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer issued the following statement today regarding the Department of Justice Report on Jailhouse Informants: The Department of Justice investigation acknowledges…
The O.C. Sheriff responds to the Dept. of Justice report on the use of jailhouse informants
SANTA ANA, Ca. (Oct. 13, 2022): Today, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) received the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) report focused on the use of jailhouse informants from 2007 through…
Justice Department finds civil rights violations by by the OCDA and OC Sheriff regarding their use of jailhouse informants
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today, based upon a thorough investigation focused on custodial informant activity from 2007 through 2016, that the…
Pres. Biden finally moving to legalize marijuana and will release inmates charged with possession
Statement from President Biden on Marijuana Reform: As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Sending people…
Biden administration responds to today’s court ruling affecting the Dreamers (DACA)
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement regarding today’s ruling on the DACA (A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered a lower court review of Biden administration…