Committing credit card fraud may be the last thing you intend to do. While this is a term often used to describe a wide range of theft and fraud using a credit card, it usually has an association with unauthorized credit card charges. There are seemingly innocent or...

A man in Ventura now faces charges related to a armed bank robbery after police arrested the man while he was allegedly hiding inside a couch in his home. After authorities received footage of a man they claim is the suspect using a weapon to rob a bank, a SWAT team...

The Laguna Beach Police Department (LBPD) has reportedly arrested two individuals it believes are responsible for having burglarized various cars during June of 2017. A multi-department investigation led officers to one suspect who, once arrested, was able to identify...

Even in cases where it seems as though the guilt of a suspect is clear cut, it is crucial for any person charged with a crime to obtain the strongest criminal defense that he or she can get. Mounting a strong criminal defense, even when the evidence seems strong for...

A multi-year probe into an identity theft, credit care fraud, and drug smuggling ring resulted in the early morning arrests of more than a dozen different individuals on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. The round-up, which required the collaboration of the Federal Bureau of...

Burglary and robbery are very similar, but legally distinct concepts that carry separate sentences in a courtroom. Often, the difference between one charge or the other comes down to a some small details, but those details could be the difference between facing fines...

Understanding the nature of property laws, and theft in particular, is sometimes a bit more complex than it may seem. In general, theft occurs when one party takes or withholds someone else's property or right to that property. In general, accusations of theft often...

Identity theft is a crime that has the potential to not only rob an individual of hard-earned financial resources or credit rating, but to adversely impact a person's reputation. This is one of the reasons states like California prosecute the illegal obtaining,...

If the numbers of car burglaries in Orange County were not alarming enough in 2015, they saw very little improvement in 2016. This unnerving trend has led police to back out into the streets, going door-to-door with volunteers to warn county residents about the...