Los Angeles Criminal Defense Blog
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
In Sacramento, California, a federal grand jury indicted Shanntaye Hicks, 23, for of sex trafficking of a minor and transportation of a minor. The indictment indicates that she controlled a minor ...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2013
Marcel Melanson, the ex-Compton fire battalion chief, appeared in court facing criminal charges that he set a fire at the Compton Fire Department headquarters as part of a scheme to steal ...
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Posted on Jun 3, 2013
In Sacramento, California, a federal judge has sentenced an Oakland resident, Jamir Imari Tatum, 20, to seven years in prison, for his role in sex trafficking a 14-year-old girl. He was also ordered ...
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Posted on May 27, 2013
In Fresno, California, a United States District Judge has sentenced Javier Rocha-Vasquez, 22, to serve 97 months in a federal prison for receiving child pornography images over the Internet. The ...
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Posted on May 20, 2013
David Garcia, who was a methamphetamine drug dealer and a member of the the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, has been sentenced in a San Diego U.S. District Court to serve 262 months in a federal prison ...
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Posted on May 13, 2013
While Tobias Summers was a fugitive, he was charged with kidnapping a 10-year-old girl from her Northridge, California home. Prosecutors said he threatened her with a knife and then sexually assaulted ...
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Posted on May 6, 2013
A Los Angeles woman was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison in a Medicare fraud case where she illegally paid kickbacks to get referrals from patients whose beneficiary information was used to ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2013
In Los Angeles, a Pueblo Bishops Bloods street gang member has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for his participation in a racketeering plot that caused the death of a man who had no gang ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2013
After a three-week trial, a federal jury in San Jose, California has convicted Myra Holmes for bankruptcy fraud, bank fraud, and making a false statement to a bank. Trial evidence showed she made ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2013
In Riverside, California, a man who sexually molested three children, took pictures of the abuse, and then shared the sexual images over the Internet with other pedophiles has been sentenced to 25 ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2013
In Oakland, California, Miguel Bedoya, 56, has pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. As part of his guilty plea, he admitted ...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2013
A federal prosecutor in San Diego announced the sentencing of David Kinh Duc Tran in federal court after he was convicted for production of child pornography. This federal sex offense is a violation ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2013
In Lake Forest, California, murder charges have been filed against a drug dealer for the death of a woman who died as the result of an overdose of drugs he is believed to supply to her. Louis Wood, ...
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Posted on Apr 10, 2013
In a Los Angeles federal court, a jury convicted a Buena Park doctor, Augustus Ohemeng, for his role in a health care fraud scheme that involved unneeded medical procedures and prescriptions. Due to ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2013
A Long Beach, California man has been arrested and is scheduled for arraignment on federal sex trafficking charges. Agents claim he worked with another defendant to force women to work as prostitutes. ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2013
In Costa Mesa, California, police have arrested a man for shooting an individual during a robbery attempt. Kenneth St. Sauver, 26, has been arrested for attempted murder, armed robbery, assault with a ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2013
In Los Angeles, the CEO of a Diamond Bar investment company has pled guilty to two federal criminal charges for his participation in a ponzi scheme to defraud investors in his bogus day-trading ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2013
A San Diego United States announced that a a high-ranking Mexican Mafia associate, Robert Mercado, has been sentenced to federal prison for 14 years after he pled guilty to violent crime in aid of ...
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Posted on Mar 26, 2013
In Sacramento, California, a United States Attorney announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment that charged Erik McKinney, 27, with two counts of receiving and sharing child ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2013
An Orange County, California man was charged with manslaughter after crashing into a mother, her daughter and a niece who were returning home from a baby shower. Police said that Anthony Sanchez's ...
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Posted on Mar 20, 2013
A San Luis Obispo Police Department detective has been arrested for his participation in a bribery scheme where he has been accused of taking cash and drugs from two informants. In return, he would ...
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Posted on Mar 17, 2013
In Santa Ana, California, a prosecutor told a jury that a man convicted of the rape and murder of a 22-year-old pregnant housewife during a sexual assault in Costa Mesa, which was part of a brutal ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2013
In Los Angeles, the former mayor of the city of Cudahy has been sentenced to one year in a federal prison for taking cash bribes in exchange for supporting the opening of a medical marijuana store in ...
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Posted on Mar 11, 2013
A Glendale, California man who was facing accusations that he hacked into hundreds of Facebook, Skype, and e-mail accounts and extorted women into showing him their naked bodies has been arrested for ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2013
In San Bernardino, California, an arsonist was sentenced to death for the murder of five men who died of heart attacks during a 2003 wildfire in the hills east of Los Angeles. The judge had the legal ...
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