[KHTS] – A federal judge sentenced a Valencia man found guilty of witness tampering in an FBI investigation to 41 months in prison Monday. Lt. Stephen Leavins, 52, of Valencia, was facing a statutory maximum of 15 years in federal prison, along with his five co-defendants. All six of the defendants...

[KHTS] – FBI agents are seeking information about a convicted felon and registered sex offender who could be heading to Southern California. Kevin Anthony Briggs was last seen in Northern California’s Bay Area and is suspected to be heading south towards Mexico. The advisory was issued the night...

Five criminal cases that charge a total of 18 current or one-time deputy sheriffs of various ranks were unsealed Monday as part of ongoing and wide-ranging FBI investigation into allegations of civil rights violations and corruption involving members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Four...

[KHTS] – Santa Clarita ranked among California’s 50 safest cities in a recent study by SafeWise, a Utah-based home security firm. For the full list of 50 safest cities, click here. The company, which ranks cities across the nation, made its determination by looking at crime statistics and FBI...

A simple click of a computer button can give you access to privileged information, download movies and music or post photos online. But that same click can also be criminal and have devastating effects on someone’s life. California State University, Northridge faculty and students have teamed with...

[FBI] – A Los Angeles man charged with multiple homicides in Los Angeles and listed in 2009 as one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was taken into custody after a joint operation with the Mexican government earlier this week, following a multi-year search by the FBI’s Fugitive Task Force,...

One Santa Clarita man was sentenced Monday and a second local man awaits trial on fraud and money laundering charges related to a bogus debt collection agency they ran out of Bakersfield,  Monrovia and Anaheim. Stefan Lemar Miller, 32, pleaded guilty in September and was sentenced Monday by U.S. District...

A Saugus man is among six defendants charged by a federal grand jury with conspiracy and fraud involving aircraft parts in interstate commerce and mail fraud. Anthony Vincent Zito, 47, along with Jerry Edward Kuwata, 60, and Douglas Arthur Johnson, 52, of Granite Bay; Michael Dennis Maupin, 58, or Arbuckle;...

From the FBI via the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department: You can buy almost anything over the Internet — including clothes, a pizza, music, a hotel room, even a car. And while most transactions are conducted lawfully and securely, there are instances when criminals insert themselves into...