Long Beach man convicted of using a homemade bomb to kill his ex at an O.C. spa
LOS ANGELES – A federal jury today found a Long Beach man guilty of building and planting a package bomb that detonated inside an Aliso Viejo day spa in May…
Feds announce results of their crackdown on telemarketers
The Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today a crackdown on telemarketing operations responsible for billions of illegal calls to U.S. consumers. The U.S.…
Rosie Hidalgo sworn in as Director for the U.S. Office on Violence Against Women
The Justice Department announced that Rosie Hidalgo was sworn in today as the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). As director, she will spearhead the Department’s principal…
Santa Ana man will spend 15 years in prison for selling deadly fentanyl pills
Isai Hernandez Higinio, a 24-year-old Santa Ana man, found out the hard way what can happen when you sell deadly doses of Fentanyl as he was sentenced to federal prison…
Guns continue to be a huge problem in Santa Ana
Over 4,000 crime guns were recovered in Santa Ana by the SAPD since 2010 according to a new report by the State of California. The report defines crime guns as…
O.C. man gets only two years in prison for stalking and harassing a female online gamer
LOS ANGELES – An Orange County man was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for stalking a professional online gamer during a long-running harassment campaign. Evan Baltierra, 30,…
O.C. artificial turf company owner pleads guilty to evading almost $1M in taxes
SANTA ANA, California – The owner of a Newport Beach-based artificial turf company pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for failing to report nearly $9 million in income…
Two U.S. Marines from Orange County arrested for firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic
SANTA ANA, California – Special agents with the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service have arrested two Orange County men on federal charges alleging they used a Molotov cocktail…
Santa Ana man sentenced for $1.2M COVID-19 fraud
SANTA ANA, California – An Orange County man was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for fraudulently applying for more than $1.2 million in COVID-19 pandemic unemployment insurance…
Federal complaint filed against California company that transmitted billions of robocalls
The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), today announced a civil enforcement action against XCast Labs, Inc. for allegedly violating the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) by…
Man convicted of scamming timeshare owners in L.A. and Orange County out of over $3.5M
SANTA ANA, California – A former Long Beach resident pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for leading a telemarketing scheme in which boiler room tactics were used to…
The DEA’s Operation Last Mile disrupted fentanyl trafficking by Mexican Cartels
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced today the results of a year-long national operation, “Operation Last Mile,” targeting the trafficking of fentanyl and methamphetamine within the United States driven by the…
A Santa Ana Trumper has been sentenced to over four years in prison for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021
Jeffrey Scott Brown, a 56-year-old Santa Ana man who assaulted police with pepper spray during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 4 1/2…
The Coast Guard intercepted a boat carrying 15 undocumented migrants off the O.C. coast
SAN PEDRO, Calif. - The Coast Guard intercepted a sport-fisher carrying 15 undocumented non-citizens attempting to enter the United States off the coast of Orange County, California, on April 20,…
Man arrested for allegedly robbing 31 gas stations and stores in O.C. and L.A.
SANTA ANA, California – A Los Angeles man has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging he committed armed robberies at Southern California convenience stores and gas stations during…