SANTA ANA, California – Two Orange County tax preparers were arraigned today on federal charges alleging they participated in a scheme orchestrated by a corrupt social worker who stole his…
LOS ANGELES – A South Bay man pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for participating with his sister in a $6 million real estate scam that involved listing…
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former civilian investigator for the Westminster Police Department has been charged with 15 felonies for lying on her timesheets and claiming to have worked hundreds…
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Juan Carlos Martinez, 56, of Yorba Linda, has been charged with 12 counts of grand theft, 34 felony counts of forgery, 34 counts of insurance fraud,…
The Tustin Police Department has posted a warning about a new scam that is happening in Orange County. Apparently job seekers are looking for jobs on social media and in…
The County of Orange Social Services Agency (SSA) is warning clients who possess an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card to be on the lookout for potential scammers trying to obtain…
ORANGE, Calif. — Unlicensed insurance agent Karyl Lynn Reed, 57, formerly of Cosa Mesa, was arraigned today on multiple felony counts of grand theft, forgery, embezzlement, and aggravated white-collar crime…
The former pastor of the Westminster-based Church of the Healthy Self was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison for orchestrating a church-based investment scam that took in more than…
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A veteran California Highway Patrol officer has been charged with 27 felonies for stealing more than $4,000 by submitting time cards falsely claiming he worked regular…
OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced the arrest of Angela Kathryn Mirabella, the 47-year-old leader of a nationwide, multiyear, multimillion-dollar student loan debt relief scam. The defendant owned a network of third-party…
Seven suspects are facing multiple felony charges for offering fraudulent mortgage foreclosure consulting and debt consolidations at offices in Tustin and in Santa Ana. In total they are alleged to…
This week, the State of California Employment Development Department warned Californians to be on alert for scammers who pretend to be EDD or Bank of America in an attempt to…
ORANGE, Calif. — Former insurance broker Karen Marie Dondanville, 53, of Mission Viejo, was arrested on 90 felony counts including grand theft, insurance fraud, financial elder abuse, and forgery for…
The Santa Ana Chief of Police, David Valentine, Tweeted today that former SAPD police officer Jonathan Ridge is no longer employed by the SAPD after Ridge pled guilty to four…
SANTA ANA, California – A former Southern California resident was charged today with defrauding more than 100 investors out of $14 million by using boiler room tactics to fraudulently offer…