Prosecution

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KTLA) -- An Arizona man who admitted traveling to Southern California twice to have sex with a 14-year old boy he met on the Internet was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. According to court documents, Michael Killala, 43, met...

DEL AIRE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who pleaded no contest to smuggling drugs into a courthouse jail in a burrito has been sentenced to two years in jail. Henry Marin, 27, pleaded no contest to one count of bringing drugs...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KTLA) -- A 21-year-old woman convicted of suffocating her baby minutes after giving birth and then dumping the body in a trash can was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison. Juana Perez Valencia, of Anaheim, was found guilty...

MALIBU, Calif. (KTLA) -- A 28-year old man was sentenced Friday to 15-years to life in prison for killing a young girl during a failed suicide attempt on Pacific Coast Highway. Prosecutors claimed 28-year old Sina Khankhanian drove his car recklessly...

More than five years after Dr. Albert Woonho Ro was found beaten to death in his Glen Burnie dental office, his dental assistant admitted Monday that she siphoned more than $17,000 from his business and had him killed to cover it up. Shontay Joyner...

Berkeley County Magistrate Joan V. Bragg found probable cause Thursday to allow felony charges against a Hagerstown man accused of fleeing the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash in April 2011 to be presented to a grand jury for possible indictment. Steven...

The California Department of Insurance is investigating the business practices of Lap-Band surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign, according to insurer Aetna Inc. The insurance giant said in a statement that it was...

Prosecutors formally charge an Arkansas City man with 14 counts of sex crimes against children. Fifty-year old Jerry Mills made his first appearance in court Thursday. He was charged with crimes including rape and indecent liberties with a child....

NILES — The last of five Niles teenagers accused of what some have called “sextortion’’ received a probation sentence today in Berrien County Trial Court in Niles. Although Judge Scott Schofield and Berrien Assistant Prosecutor...

NILES – Parnell Martin, one of five Niles High School students accused in a Facebook sex extortion case, was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 4 years but no more than 15 years in prison. Both Trey Nichols and Parnell Martin pleaded guilty....

Three Hagerstown men who were arrested Friday night at gunpoint by the Washington County Special Response Team following a 90-minute standoff at an apartment near City Park have been charged in connection with the incident. Jacob Malachi Adams, 21, of...

The Washington County Special Response Team took three people into custody following a 90-minute standoff Friday night at a home on Guilford Avenue in Hagerstown. In a news release issued early Saturday, the Hagerstown Police Department identified the...