News Releases & Advisories

October 23, 2025: Chipotle Settles Gift Card Redemption Lawsuit

LOS ANGELES – Chipotle Mexican Grill, a national restaurant chain with over 500 stores in California, has settled a consumer protection lawsuit alleging it failed to allow California consumers to cash out Chipotle gift cards with a remaining balance of less than $10.

October 22, 2025: Atlas Iron and Metal Sentenced to Pay $2 Million, Shut Down Operations Following Felony Conviction

LOS ANGELES — Atlas Iron and Metal Corp. was ordered to permanently shut down its Watts recycling facility and pay $2 million in restitution and fines after admitting to illegally dumping hazardous waste at an unpermitted site. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Terry A. Bork imposed the sentence following the company’s no contest plea to five felony counts of unlawful hazardous waste disposal.

October 15, 2025: LADA Charges 13 LA County Employees with Stealing Over $430,000 in Unemployment Benefits

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has charged 13 Los Angeles County employees from seven different agencies with felony grand theft for stealing a combined $437,383 in state unemployment benefits between 2020 and 2023. 

October 15, 2025: USC Ph.D. Graduate Charged With Multiple Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assaults Since 2021

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has charged 30-year-old Sizhe Weng, also known as Steven Weng, with drugging and raping multiple women between 2021 and 2024 while enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of Southern California.

September 30, 2025: Man Sentenced to More Than 24 Years in Prison for Killing Off-Duty Monterey Park Police Officer Gardiel Solorio

NORWALK, Calif. – Defendant Gerardo Magallanes was sentenced yesterday to 24 years and eight months in state prison for the murder of off-duty Monterey Park Police Officer Gardiel Solorio in August 2022.

September 30, 2025: Court of Appeal Grants DA’s Petition to Overturn Mental Health Diversion for Defendant in Violent, Hate Crime Assault

LOS ANGELES – The California Court of Appeal has granted the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office petition to overturn a Superior Court ruling that allowed mental health diversion for a man accused of a vicious, racially charged assault in Santa Monica.

September 30, 2025: Jury Finds Gang Members Guilty of 2015 Double Murder of Teenage Girls in Montecito Heights

LOS ANGELES — A jury has found Jose Antonio Echeverria also known as Klepto and Dallas Stone Pineda aka Trippy guilty of all charges and allegations in the 2015 murders of two teenage girls whose bodies were discovered near a hiking trail in Montecito Heights.

September 29, 2025: Three Charged With FEMA Fraud During LA Wildfire Recovery

LOS ANGELES – Two men from Los Angeles and a woman from Louisiana have been charged with falsely claiming they were residents of Altadena and the Pacific Palisades and fraudulently obtaining more than $40,000 in disaster assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency intended for victims of the January 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires.

September 24, 2025: Man Charged With Animal Cruelty for Viciously Killing Dog During West Hollywood Burglary

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A 27-year-old man has been charged with felony animal cruelty, first-degree residential burglary and vandalism for allegedly breaking into his former roommate’s home and violently beating the victim’s small dog and throwing it off the balcony onto a nearby construction site, where it was found dead.

September 17, 2025: Declaración de Fiscal Hochman sobre denegación judicial de Petición de Habeas Corpus de Hermanos Menéndez

Felicito al juez de la Corte Superior del Condado de Los Ángeles, William C. Ryan, por su fallo reflexivo y decisivo al rechazar que se haga un nuevo juicio para Erik y Lyle Menéndez, quienes permanecen en prisión por los asesinatos de sus padres, José y Kitty Menéndez en 1989. Este fallo cierra otra puerta en la larga campaña de los hermanos para escapar de la responsabilidad por sus acciones.

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