News Releases & Advisories

June 18, 2026: Comedian Carlos Mencia Charged with Tax Evasion and Failing to Report $8.7 Million in Income

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman today announced felony state tax evasion charges against comedian Carlos Mencia for failing to report $8.7 million in personal and corporate income taxes between tax years 2019-2024. This is the first case filed by the Office’s newly established Business Tax Fraud Unit.

June 18, 2026: LADA-Sponsored Anti-Labor Trafficking Bill Heads to Governor’s Desk After Unanimous Legislative Approval

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Legislation sponsored by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and co-sponsored by the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office has passed the California State Senate by a unanimous 38-0 vote and now heads to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for consideration.

June 18, 2026: Man Charged with Attempted Murder of Police Officers, Assault During Car Chase in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — A 35-year-old man is facing multiple attempted murder and assault charges after he shot at Los Angeles police officers during a car chase, catching civilians in the crossfire.

June 18, 2026: Raisin Company Heir Charged With Antisemitic Hate Crime Against Rabbi Praying in Pacific Palisades

LOS ANGELES — The heir to one of California’s largest raisin companies was charged with a felony hate crime for allegedly threatening to kill a rabbi at his home in Pacific Palisades as he led a Sabbath evening prayer service.

June 15, 2026: Former Businessman Charged With 2009 Murder of Lawyer Jeffrey Tidus in Rancho Palos Verdes

LOS ANGELES – A man believed to be the mastermind behind the execution-style slayings of attorney Jeffrey Tidus outside of his Rolling Hills Estates home in 2009 and an ex-employee who had filed a class action lawsuit for unpaid overtime in 2011 has been charged with their murders. He also is a suspect in a third murder committed in Las Vegas.

June 12, 2026: District Attorney Hochman Calls on California Legislature to Pass LADA-Sponsored Public Safety Bills

SACRAMENTO — Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman today urged the California legislature to pass and Governor Newsom to sign six bipartisan bills sponsored by the Office to strengthen accountability for human labor traffickers, corporate polluters, drunk drivers, animal abusers and peace officers and strengthen prosecutorial agencies’ investigations into wrongful conviction claims. All six bipartisan bills unanimously passed their house of origin.

June 11, 2026: District Attorney Hochman Files Application to Intervene in the LA County Child Sex Abuse Litigation in Order to Temporarily Stop Payments for Potentially Fraudulent Claims in the More Than $4 Billion Settlement

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman filed a motion yesterday  asking a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to stay payments of the more than $4 billion settlement of child sex abuse claims against Los Angeles County until December 31, 2026, while the Office investigates significant allegations of fraud in a very significant majority of these cases.

June 10, 2026: Man Convicted of 2018 Attempted Murders, Standoff at Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake

LOS ANGELES – A 36-year-old man was found guilty yesterday of the 2018 attempted murders of his grandmother and girlfriend prior to a standoff at a Silver Lake Trader Joe’s where he held shoppers hostage inside for more than three hours.

June 5, 2026: Federal Jury Convicts Four MS-13 Members in Triple Murder

LOS ANGELES — A federal jury has found four members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) guilty of carrying out three gruesome murders in the Angeles National Forest in 2017, including the killing of a victim whose heart was carved from his chest. Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Eric W. Siddall prosecuted the case as a cross-designee in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, serving as a Special Assistant United States Attorney.

June 5, 2026: Man Charged With Killing Actor James Handy in Tarzana

TARZANA, Calif. – A 44-year-old man was charged today with fatally stabbing his mother’s elderly boyfriend, actor James Handy, outside a Tarzana home earlier this week.

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