A judge sentenced a West Hollywood man, Jeffrey Craig Yohai, 37, to 110 months in federal prison for defrauding investors, lenders, friends and family members out of about $6.7 million, via a series of scams he ran while out on bond after pleading guilty in a prior federal case. Yohai pleaded guilty to two counts …
Three Saudi nationals have been charged in two separate indictments for allegedly violating federal export laws by purchasing more than $100,000 in weapons parts in the United States while on student visas and then smuggling the parts to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All three defendants are believed to …
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A jury convicted a gang member, Osiris Lenin Garfias Pedraza, 23 of first-degree murder in the 2017 killing of Jonathan Hernandez, 22, who had ties to a rival Anaheim gang. Garfias Pedraza now faces a minimum sentence of life without the possibility of parole. Garfias Pedraza was in one of three cars that went into …
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A federal grand jury has indicted two men in a scheme to obtain lawful permanent resident status for South Korean nationals by submitting fraudulent visa applications that falsely claimed American businesses wanted to hire skilled foreign workers. The indictment alleges that the defendants exploited the EB-2(a) visa program by …
The Orange County DA’s office charged five members of a University of California, Irvine fraternity, namely Sigma Alpha Episilon (SAE) in connection with the alcohol poisoning death of a fellow under aged fraternity member after a party in January. Zavier Larenz Brown, now 21, Jonathan Anephi Vu, now 22, Mohamed Ibragim Kharaev, now 21, Caleb …
A US District Court judge sentenced Aquinas Kasbar, 19, of Newport Beach, to three months in federal prison for breaking into the Santa Ana Zoo after hours and stealing North America’s oldest ring-tailed lemur in captivity to keep the endangered animal as his pet. Kasbar must also pay $8,486 …
Julian Miles Mayers-Johnson, 32, a Venice man who sold the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl to a 19-year-old man who suffered a fatal overdose pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. On October 19, 2018, outside a fast-food restaurant in Venice, Mayers-Johnson knowingly possessed fentanyl, intending to distribute it. Mayers-Johnson sold one-half gram of …
A jury found Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba, 33, a Texas man, guilty of hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) computer system, using the system to send approximately 2 million malicious phishing emails, and fraudulently obtaining hundreds of credit card numbers. The judge gave him 45 months in …
A Manhattan Beach man, Adam Joiner, pleaded guilty to a fraud charge and admitted bilking foreign investment groups out of $14 million by falsely claiming the money would be used to produce a feature film that Netflix would distribute. He faces 20 years in federal prison. (Doubtful that he will get 20 years) …
The Seal Beach Police arrested a former Chef, Darryl Lee Matanane, 55 in Midland, Texas. The police identifed Matanane as a suspect in the February 18, 2018 sexual assault. He was released pending further investigation. After further investigation, the police arrested him. The prosecutor charged Matanane with six felony counts in connection with the February 2018 …