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Rob Katherman, 68 and his wife Marilyn Katherman, 65 were both charged with felony counts of misappropriation of public funds. Rob Katherman worked as a lobbyist for Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price but has since resigned. Authorities allege that the Kathermans illegally sent money from...

The Orange County Sheriffs Department in conjunction with with the California Office of Traffic Safety and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made nine arrests over the weekend for driving under the influence. Sheriff deputies saturated the areas with patrol cars and stopped 92 vehicl...

Michael Fredrick Molle was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly shooting his two step-grandchildren. Molle 72, of Rossmoor allegedly shot his step-grandchildren after a domestic dispute at their home. No word on what led to the shooting. Neighbors reported th...

Federal authorities are on the hunt for a Fullerton woman who they say is involved in a scheme to defraud Medicare of millions of dollars. Ji Have Kim, 43, of Fullerton is the woman they are looking for. Kim, a registered nurse worked for GreatCare Home Health Inc., a Los Angeles based home hea...

Raul Moreno-Perez, 34, was sentenced to 25 years to life and lifetime registration as a sex offender for a crime he committed in 2001. On November 3, 2001 a 19-year-old girl was waiting at a bus stop in the city of Orange when Moreno-Perez asked her if she wanted a ride. She declined. Minutes lat...

Michael Mordaunt, 45, of Cypress was arrested and charged with 24 felony counts, including 7 counts of lewd acts with minors under 14. According to authorities, Mordaunt was posing as a teenage boy on social media connecting with underage girls. He alleged used MySpace and Facebook between 2009 a...

A 80-year-old Long Beach man arrived at his home around 9:00 p.m. to find two burglars. The pair punched and body slammed the elderly man while they attempted to break into his safe. The homeowner, Tom Greer was able to retrieve a firearm and confronted the burglars who fled on foot out of the ho...

Judge Michael A. Smith dismissed conspiracy charges against all four defendants in the Colonies Partners LP case citing the expiration of the statute of limitations. Jeff Burum, Paul Baine, Jim Erwin and Mark Kirk are accused of conspiring to approve a $102 million settlement between San Bernardi...

A man was arrested after San Bernardino County Deputy Sheriff found him performing a sexual act on a minor. 40-year-old Adelanto School District substitute teacher, Rakshannah Ranney was arrested yesterday and charged with Penal Code Section 288, Lewd and Lascivious Acts on a Minor, PC 459, Burgl...

The jurors began deliberating Wednesday following the trial of two women accused of kicking Kim Pham, 23, in the head outside The Crosby in Santa Ana. Candace Brito and Vanesa Zavala are both charged with second-degree murder in the fatal beating of Pham which has caused a stir in the community b...

A Laguna Niguel business man pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and bank fraud. Donald Keith Goff, 66, admitted in court to the charges that stem from a series of fraud schemes to defraud banks and the U.S. Small Business Administration out of a loan to purc...

Rick Krujin Lee, 25, of Chino Hills was arrested after striking a bicyclist in Pomona. Police arrested Lee for vehicular manslaughter and DUI causing death and he is currently being held on $100,000 bail. According to law enforcement, Lee was traveling down Garey Avenue in a white 335i BMW at a...

Jing Wang, 51, former Executive Vice President and President of Global Business Operations for Qualcomm Inc., pleaded guilty today in federal court to insider trading in shares of Qualcomm and Atheros Communication and money laundering. Wang created a shell company to deposit the proceeds of his ...

David Rose, 57 of Coto de Caza pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud and mail fraud in what authorities are saying was a fraud scheme targeting physicians and dentists. Rose, sought medical professionals to invest in M.D. Venture Partners and Technology Innovation Partners with the promis...

Ronald Preston Spurlock, 36 of Santa Ana was arrested on one felony count of human trafficking, five felony counts of pandering a victim over 18, two felony counts of sale or transportation of marijuana, five felony counts of pimping, and one felony count of felon in possession of a firearm. Sp...

Duy Khac Nguyen, 34 of Garden Grove was charged with allegedly defrauding 42 victims by operating a fraudulent loan modification business. The Orange County District Attorneys Office charged 37 counts of grand theft, 5 counts of theft from an elder and sentencing enhancements for the total loss b...

A New York doctor was convicted of manslaughter after one of his patients died of an overdose and another killed four people during a pharmacy robbery. Dr. Stan Li was also charged and convicted of recklessly endangering six other patients for prescribing controlled substances to known drug abuse...

Robert H. Claudio, 25 of Anaheim Hills was sentenced to 15 years to life after being convicted of molesting a 13-year-old boy in a bathroom at Tustin Library. Orange County prosecutors say that Claudio had been warned to stay away from the library because he is a registered sex offender, however,...

A federal grand jury indicted three women with what authorities are saying is a $50 million health insurance fraud scheme. Theresa Fisher, 44 of Tustin, Vi Nguyen, 31 of Placentia and Lindsey Hardgraves, 30 of San Pedro are each charged with multiple counts of mail fraud. If convicted, the women ...

Steven Matthew LeClaire Jr. 26, is set to start trial today for the murder of his friend and attempted murder of his father in a Cypress hotel. LeClaire Jr. is charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder with sentencing enhancements. If convicted, LeClaire Jr. could spend ...

Irvine, California attorneys Emanuel Hudson and Joseph Cavallo were charged in Los Angeles County with attempted extortion, conspiracy to commit extortion, conspiracy to receive a bribe and conspiracy to obstruct justice. In addition to the attorneys, Leyla Ors was also charged with offering to r...

Wayne Fong, 51 of Tustin pleaded guilty to stealing over $460,000 from Fidelity National Title Group. Fong, a former NYPD officer was the Associate Counsel and VP for Fidelity since 1999. According to prosecutors, Fong embezzled the money via a vendor, Global Discovers where he asked Global to se...

Tyler Wilkinson, 37 of San Diego and Ian Frisch 31, of Bonita are charged with four counts of grand theft with sentencing enhancements for causing loss over $500,000. In addition to these two men, Reuben Banuelos, of Aliso Viejo, Edward Putnam and Maxine Putnam of San Diego were also charged. O...

A female high school teacher was charged with engaging in illegal sex acts with a 15-year-old female student. Rebecca Diebolt, 35 of Brea was charged with two counts of oral copulation with a minor, two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object of a minor under 16 and one felony count of s...

A San Clemente teacher accused of sexually assaulting an 8th grade student is scheduled to begin trial on this week. Richard John Rack, 51 of San Clemente was a teacher at Shorecliffs Middle School in San Clemente since 2002. Between April and November 2011, Rack is accused of committing lewd con...