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Pratt has had a warrant for his arrest since November 2019. He is the last outstanding fugitive in the case.

The FBI has raised their reward offer up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of a New Zealand man accused of operating San Diego-based pornographic websites that recruited young women and at least one teenage girl to engage in commercial sex acts by force, fraud, and coercion.

Eight people are charged in a federal grand jury indictment unsealed this week, accused of participating in a criminal enterprise that

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California: Jason Harrington pleaded guilty and admitted that he sold $1.1 million of forged art. Harrington sold artwork purportedly created by Richard Hambleton – a New York City artist who rose to fame in the 1980s and whose paintings routinely sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. In his plea agreement, Harrington admitted selling forged art to at least fifteen galleries and individuals between 2018 and 2020. The forge...

SAN DIEGO — Jason Ellis of Poway pleaded guilty in federal court today to filing a false tax return as part of a years long tax-evasion scheme with former Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. Until around 2018, Rabbi Goldstein was the director and head rabbi at Chabad of Poway, a tax-exempt religious organization. Goldstein also operated several non-profit entities affiliated with the Chabad, including the Friendship Circle of San Diego. Beginning in 2008, at Rabbi Goldsteins request, El...

Details Written by FBI San Diego, California - Derick Jonathan Cameron of Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to wire fraud, admitting that while employed as the Financial Controller for San Diego-based RAL Investment Corporation, he embezzled more than $400,000.  In a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jill L. Burkhardt, Cameron admitted he abused his access to the company’s accounting software and issued more than 200 unauthorized checks...

Updated: 9:42 PM PDT July 13, 2021 CHULA VISTA, Calif. — A Chula Vista couple admitted in federal court Monday to conspiring to defraud hundreds of pregnant Mexican nationals and causing over a million dollars in losses to Californias Medi-Cal health program. Melissa Alvarez Torres, 33, and Jose Luis Olmos Hernandez, 36, advertised their insurance company through Facebook under the name "Seguros Americanos Embarazo (American Pregnancy Insurance)." Alvarez and Olmos falsely cla...

Federal Jury Finds Man Guilty of Possessing Molotov Cocktails at La Mesa Protest Details Written by IVN San Diego, California - After a two-day jury trial, Zachary Alexander Karas of San Diego was found guilty of possessing incendiary devices known as Molotov cocktails at a protest that began on May 30, 2020 in La Mesa. After the jury returned a guilty verdict, Chief District Judge Dana M. Sabraw remanded Karas into custody. Sentencing is set for August 13, 2021, at ...

Details Written by IVN Calexico, California - Former Calexico City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem David Romero, along with Bruno Suarez-Soto, a former commissioner on the city’s Economic Development and Financial Advisory Commission, were each sentenced to two years in prison today for taking bribes in exchange for “guaranteeing” a City permit for a cannabis business. In pronouncing sentence, U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo observed that public officials sh...

CALEXICO — Former Calexico City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem David Romero and Bruno Suarez-Soto, a former commissioner on the city’s Economic Development and Financial Advisory Commission, were each sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for taking bribes in exchange for guaranteeing a city permit for a cannabis business. In announcing the sentences, U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo said public officials should not take positions of power to line their own pockets and that...