Long Beach man sentenced for stealing over $800,000 in bogus invoicing scheme
The man counterfeited 141 invoices for $835,151.35 in value he stole from a Buena Park furniture company, prosecutors said.
Long Beach woman sentenced to 5 years for fatally stabbing caregiver in 2018
Theresa Dargan was arrested four years ago in connection to the murder of her caregiver, 51-year-old Long Beach resident Olympia Riley.
Former engineer gets 3 years for intentional train wreck near Mercy hospital ship
A former locomotive engineer at the Port of Los Angeles was sentenced to three years behind bars today for intentionally running a train at full speed off the tracks near the Navy hospital ship Mercy, claiming the vessel was docked at the port as part of a possible “government takeover.”
Killer who fled to Vegas after deadly West Long Beach robbery gets 15-to-life in prison
Daniel Fernandez stabbed a man to death while he and the man’s son robbed him of the cash he’d saved up to buy a home in Wilmington, prosecutors said.
Man who dismembered, buried overdose victim gets prison in ‘house of horrors’ case
“He lured young men, many of them who were vulnerable and struggling with addiction, to his sex dungeon with the promise of drugs,” a judge said as he sentenced the defendant to six years and eight months.
Long Beach man gets 10 years for shooting gun into parked car
Witnesses later told law enforcement that the man had been harassing his ex-girlfriend and then threatened her just minutes before shooting into a car outside her home.
Man sentenced for shooting woman to death as she held her 2-year-old son
The shooter pulled a gun after he was teased for saying he had voted for Hillary Clinton and his bandmate told him to leave, prosecutors said.
Ex-city employee sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexual abuse that spanned years
“It wasn’t some stranger she encountered only once,” the victim’s family said in a statement “It was someone that was supposed to protect her, someone that called himself a friend to the family.”
Man sentenced to 20 days in jail for fatally striking woman with bus near Long Beach courthouse
A judge sentenced Juan Castro-Alvarenga, 27, of Van Nuys to 20 days in jail along with community labor for fatally striking a Long Beach woman as she crossed the street, said city prosecutor Doug Haubert.
Former Long Beach police detective sentenced to 2-year probation for leaking information to street gang
Yvonne Robinson, 50, was found guilty earlier this month by a 12-person jury of leaking details from multiple police investigations to members of the Baby Insane Crips street gang.