Police involved in an undercover narcotics investigation took a woman and three men into custody at a dog boarding facility in Orange County on June 5. Media reports suggest that one of the men owns the facility. The four suspects have been booked on charges including...
On May 17, California authorities announced that two men were arrested for allegedly operating a drug-trafficking ring in Apple Valley. The defendants are reportedly linked to the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico. Media reports state that officers from multiple law...
Federal prosecutors have announced that three men have been charged with laundering money and distributing illegal drugs on a website that hid its activities on what is known as the dark net. Federal authorities worked with law enforcement agencies in Germany and...
In order to prove criminal conspiracy charges, prosecutors in California must be able to convince juries that defendants entered into an arrangement to commit a crime, intended to commit that crime and took action to move the plan forward. Defendants can be convicted...
A 24-year-old woman and her 36-year-old boyfriend were charged with felony counts of transporting a controlled substance on April 10 after 44 pounds of the deadly opioid fentanyl were allegedly found in their car during a traffic stop. The seized narcotics are said to...
Michael Avenatti, the attorney who became known as the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, is facing charges in California and in New York. In California, his charges include embezzling money from a client's settlement and filing false tax returns to gain approval for a $4...
Former Major League Baseball pitcher Esteban Loaiza was sentenced to three years in prison followed by five years of probation by a California federal court judge on March 8 after pleading guilty to a felony drug possession charge. Loaiza entered into a plea agreement...
Fraud can affect any industry, from cybersecurity to home improvement. However, the insurance world experiences the most, and no other sector faces the most scams than does health care, reports the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud.While many fraudulent...
A California pharmacy owner has been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted on charges of health care fraud. The government alleged that the 39-year-old Pasadena woman had billed Medicare for over $1.3 million in prescription drugs. However, these...
The criminal fraud realm is a universe that is often misperceived and not well understood by a large swath of the public.One central disconnect and flat-out myth is this: White collar criminal conduct is not as aggressively investigated or prosecuted as are other...