Feds announce the results of their national COVID-19 fraud crackdown
The Justice Department announced today the results of a coordinated, nationwide enforcement action to combat COVID-19 fraud, which included 718 enforcement actions – including federal criminal charges against 371 defendants…
The State of California seized 1,437 firearms from residents prohibited from owning guns in 2022
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced the release of the 2022 Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) annual program report. In 2006, California became the first and only state…
Man pleads guilty to helping a Santa Ana psychiatrist to illegally sell prescription drugs
William Jason Plumley, 41, a Huntington Beach man accused of conspiring with a Santa Ana psychiatrist to sell prescription opioids, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal drug-distribution charges according to the…
Santa Ana man on probation indicted for possession of large quantities of illegal drugs and a gun
Santa Ana Man Indicted on Federal Drug Trafficking Charges that Allege Possession of Methamphetamine, Heroin, and Fentanyl SANTA ANA, California – A federal grand jury today returned an indictment that…
Santa Ana man gets only eight months in prison after impersonating an ICE agent and threatening a woman
[caption id="attachment_60916" align="aligncenter" width="191"] Luis Flores-Mendoza[/caption] Luis Flores-Mendoza of Santa Ana pleaded guilty last year to impersonating a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and threatening to deport a woman…
Santa Ana man to spend 15 months in prison after pointing a laser at a police helicopter
Mario Deleon Lopez, a 35-year-old Santa Ana man, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison on Monday for shining a laser pointer at an Orange County Sheriff's Department helicopter,…
The FBI recovers 168 juveniles involved in Child Sex Trafficking
FBI Washington, D.C. June 23, 2014 FBI National Press Office, (202) 324-3691 168 Juveniles Recovered in Nationwide Operation Targeting Commercial Child Sex Trafficking During the past week, the FBI; its local,…