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Ali Elmezayen was convicted in October 2019 of more than a dozen federal charges including mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Federal prosecutors lacked jurisdiction for federal murder charges.
A South Bay man was sentenced to 212 years in prison for defrauding insurance companies after driving his children and ex-wife off the Port of Los Angeles pier to collect on accidental death policies, a scheme the judge called "evil and diabolical.''
A Hawthorne man was sentenced to 212 years in federal prison Thursday for intentionally driving his ex-wife and two autistic sons off a wharf at the Port of Los Angeles into the ocean – drowning the boys who were trapped in the car – to collect on accidental death insurance policies he had taken out on their lives.
California Man Admits to Cyberstalking Two Teenage Girls Details Written by FBI Los Angeles, California - A Covina man pleaded guilty to federal cyberstalking charges for his multiyear internet harassment campaign against two teenage girls who rejected his sexual advances. Carl De Vera Bennington, 34, pleaded guilty via videoconference to two counts of cyberstalking. According to his plea agreement, Bennington repeatedly sent one victim unsolicited online messages over a period of several years. When she blocked him from contacting her from one of her online accoun...