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A former San Diego County Sheriff’s captain was indicted for violating drug laws by alerting owners, including his cousin, of an illegal marijuana dispensary that law enforcement was planning to search, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

The former CEO of a San Diego startup faces up to two decades imprisonment and at least $250,000 in fines for embezzling $1.5 million from his own company, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Las Vegas resident Jeffrey Fildey, 56, who started the e-forms company GoFormz Inc. in 2012, pleaded guilty Wednesday to wire fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said for…

Two Calexico city officials were charged with accepting cash bribes in exchange for the quick issuance of a cannabis dispensary permit, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of California announced.

A former biologist admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the San Diego Zoo, the Office of the U.S. Attorney announced Thursday.

Two San Diego ophthalmologists have paid hundreds of thousands to the United States to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare, the U.S Attorney’s Office announced on Jan. 2.

The FBI indicted a former San Diego resident with charges of terrorism after nearly a decade of alleged crimes that landed him on the department’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.

The man is believed to be the highest ranking U.S. citizen fighting in a terrorist organization overseas. NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has more.

A former “Jersey Shore” star and his brother are facing new charges in a federal tax evasion case.

Five people including a San Diego County Sheriff’s captain, an SDSO lieutenant and a known San Diego jeweler were indicted Friday for the operation of an illegal firearm trafficking business, which was at times run from the SDSO substation in Rancho San Diego, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced

South Carolina authorities have charged a man from southern California with conspiracy to engage in mail and wire fraud after prosecutors say he defrauded about 2,600 people, including many veterans.

More than a dozen people were changed in a massive counterfeit phone scheme, which the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California called the “biggest fraud of its kind.”

A manager stole more than $2.5 million worth of goods in under one year from a U.S. Navy warehouse where he worked, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.

Daniel Hector Mackinnon, previously known as Daniel Patrick Shelley, drove a Toyota Prius with mismatched license plates into a Raytheon building in Kearny Mesa and then set it on fire at about 2:30 a.m on April 24.

A Pacific Beach resident pleaded guilty to supplying a lethal dose of fentanyl powder to three people who thought they were buying cocaine on Labor Day weekend last year.

An online drug dealer who sold fentanyl-laced pills that caused the death of a La Jolla man in 2018 was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday.

The San Diego Police Department released 911 call audio and officer-worn camera footage from a deadly police shooting in August involving a man in El Cerrito.

A rabbi and associate principal at a prominent New York City private school faces child pornography charges for allegedly tricking a teen boy into sending him nude photos, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Probation officials said there was “no victim” or any “actual or intended loss” in Felicity Huffman’s role in the college admissions scandal, court documents revealed Wednesday. While the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System’s report does not explicitly recommend a sentence for Huffman, the report clearly came down on the side of the Oscar-nominated actress and her bid to avoid...

Three people face federal charges in California for allegedly defrauding foreign investors in a jobs program overseen by U.S. immigration officials, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.