News Releases & Advisories

August 15, 2025: DA Hochman Highlights Ongoing Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts in Coordination with Recent Federal Sex Trafficking Indictment

LOS ANGELES — District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman commends the outstanding work of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Los Angeles Police Department, and other federal and state law enforcement agencies in securing a federal 31-count indictment against six members and associates of the South Los Angeles-based Hoover Criminal Gang. The defendants were charged with racketeering conspiracy, including sex trafficking of children and adults through force, fraud, or coercion on the Figueroa Corridor of Los Angeles. 

August 12, 2025: District Attorney Files New Public Corruption Charges Against LA City Councilmember Curren Price

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has filed two new public corruption charges against Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price after uncovering evidence that the city’s housing authority and LA Metro paid Price’s wife more than $800,000 total at the same time Price voted to award the agencies multimillion-dollar contracts.

August 11, 2025: Former LAPD Officer, Three Others Charged in Kidnapping for Ransom, Armed Robbery

LOS ANGELES – Felony charges have been filed against a former Los Angeles police officer and three other men in connection with a violent home invasion and kidnapping for ransom in Koreatown last December.

August 11, 2025: District Attorney Hochman Works With Law Enforcement to Crack Down on Street Takeovers

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman was joined today by law enforcement officials to address illegal street takeovers that have become dangerous and sometimes deadly spectacles, warning those who participate can be arrested and face criminal charges.

August 8, 2025: Los Angeles County Fire Captain Charged with Falsifying Disability Claim

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County Fire Department captain has been charged with fraudulently claiming long-term disability insurance for a work injury that could not have occurred because he was not at work.

August 7, 2025: District Attorney’s Office Responds to Menendez Habeas Petition, Opposes Bid for New Trial

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office today filed its 132-page detailed response to a 2023 petition for writ of habeas corpus submitted on behalf of Lyle and Erik Menendez, demonstrating the manifest failure, both factually and legally, in the Menendez brothers’ effort to obtain a new trial.

August 5, 2025: Statement on Erroneous Information Involving Denzel Perryman Case

Our office is aware of erroneous information circulating in several news reports regarding the status of Denzel Perryman's case stemming from an arrest on Friday, August 1, 2025. Contrary to some media reports, no decision has been made to decline charges or forgo prosecution.

August 4, 2025: Felony Charges Filed Against Parter Medical Products Inc. and Owners for Exposing Workers to Toxic Chemicals

COMPTON, CA — Five felony charges have been filed against Parter Medical Products Inc., doing business as Parter Sterilization Services, and its president and manager for allegedly exposing workers to a toxic chemical linked to cancer, then attempting to cover up the danger by filing false documents and concealing critical safety risks from regulators.

August 1, 2025: Six Charged in ‘Operation Sugar Diamond’ Probe of Illegal Cannabis Lab Blasts That Killed Five Workers

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced that six people were charged today as part of a multi-agency investigation dubbed “Operation Sugar Diamond” that targeted an illegal cannabis extraction business where four people were killed in a fiery explosion at a warehouse in Irwindale in 2023 and another man died at a South El Monte facility last year.