WEST COVINA, Calif. – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman recognized three individuals with Courage Awards for their exceptional bravery, strength and resolve in the face of significant adversity and for the vital role they played in advancing justice.
LOS ANGELES — General Motors, LLC will pay $12.75 million to resolve a civil lawsuit alleging that from 2020-2024, General Motors unlawfully sold hundreds of thousands of OnStar subscribers’ personal information and driving data to third party data brokers in violation of California’s privacy, false advertising and unfair competition laws.
LOS ANGELES — A 26-year-old man has been held to answer and arraigned for allegedly labor trafficking a 14-year-old middle schooler by making him prepare hundreds of items of clothing for online resale after taking the victim’s cell phone so he could not be contacted by his family. The defendant, Brandon Holguin, is also accused of furnishing the victim with Adderall and instructing him to use it as he worked. Holguin allegedly left the child stranded on a Los Angeles freeway in the middle of the night, nearly three days after the teen was reported missing.
LOS ANGELES — David Peter Bloom, known as the “Wall Street Whiz Kid,” pleaded no contest today to 18 felony counts stemming from an investment scam that grossed close to $250,000.
SAN FERNANDO, Calif. – A 29-year-old man was charged today with a series of sexual assaults in the San Fernando Valley that occurred within a matter of hours last week involving eight victims.
LONG BEACH, Calif. — A 44-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after he stabbed a Long Beach Police officer multiple times while the officer and his partner were responding to a call on April 17.
BURBANK, Calif. — A 30-year-old man was charged today with murder in the stabbing of first-grade teacher Arti Varma, 59, and the attempted murder of her 25-year-old daughter, Meera Varma, at their home in Burbank.
LOS ANGELES — A man was charged today with murder in the killing of an 84-year-old man living with dementia who had wandered from a convalescent home before being brutally beaten and set on fire in downtown Los Angeles.
NORWALK, Calif. – Nicholas Gutierrez, 25, pleaded guilty today to a fatal wrong-way crash that resulted in the death of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s recruit Alejandro Martinez-Inzunza and caused severe injuries to several other recruits in November 2022 in Whittier.
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced that musician David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, was charged today with murdering 14-year-old Celeste R., whose body was found decomposed and dismembered in his car that had been impounded in September 2025.
