Santa Ana, CA–A man who punched two medical assistants at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Tustin and later groped a nurse who was providing him medical care has been charged with misdemeanor battery and resisting arrest. On December 30, Thomas Apollo, 44, of Poway, was asked to leave the Families Together clinic after he refused […]

A former Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General pleaded guilty on January 14 to federal charges stemming from the theft of proprietary software and sensitive databases from the U.S. government. According to court documents, Charles Edwards, 61, of Sandy Spring, Maryland, executed a scheme to steal confidential […]

Sterling, VA.– Rapper Vic Mensah was arrested at Washington Dulles International Airport on Saturday after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered a cache of illicit narcotics in his baggage. Victor Kwesi Mensah, 28, arrived on board a flight from Ghana at about 7 a.m. on Saturday. During a secondary baggage examination, Customs and Border […]

Washington, D.C.–A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment Thursday, which was unsealed on Friday, charging 11 defendants with seditious conspiracy and other charges for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S.  Congress was in the process of […]

A Florida man pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Florida to a $6.9 million conspiracy to defraud Medicare by paying kickbacks and bribes to obtain doctors’ orders for medically unnecessary lab tests that were then billed to Medicare.  The defendant exploited the COVID-19 pandemic by bundling COVID-19 testing with other forms of testing that […]

A New Jersey man and two New York men pleaded guilty Friday to fixing the prices of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs sold on the Amazon Marketplace.  According to court documents filed in Knoxville, Tennessee, Morris Sutton, Emmanuel Hourizadeh, and Raymond Nouvahian were charged with conspiring with others to fix prices of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs […]

Sacramento, CA–Governor Gavin Newsom has activated the California National Guard to support local communities with additional testing facilities and capacity amid the national surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant.  “California has led the country’s fight against COVID-19, implementing first-in-the-nation public health measures that have helped save tens of thousands of lives,” said […]

Sacramento, CA–Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a proposed $2.7 billion COVID-19 Emergency Response Package – including a $1.4 billion emergency appropriation request – to bolster testing capacity, accelerate vaccination and booster efforts, support frontline workers, strengthen the health care system, and battle misinformation.  The governor’s budget also calls for new legislation to implement supplemental paid sick […]

San Pedro, CA–After sustained cleanup operations for the Southern California oil spill, affected shoreline segments have been returned to their original condition.  The Unified Command, led by the U. S. Coast Guard, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Office of Spill Prevention and Response, the County of Orange, the County of San Diego, and the […]

Sacramento, CA–Governor Gavin Newsom Friday announced the launch of California’s new program to compensate survivors of state-sponsored sterilization, created as part of the 2021-22 state budget package. Beginning Jan. 1, survivors of state-sponsored sterilization can apply for compensation through California’s Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program, which is administered by the California Victim Compensation Board […]