News Releases & Advisories

LOS ANGELES – Global fast fashion retailer Shein will pay $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the District Attorney’s Offices of Napa, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonoma counties. The lawsuit alleged that the company engaged in unlawful business practices by taking more than a month to ship online orders and failing to provide adequate delay notices to consumers or offer refunds for late orders as required by California law, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced today.

LOS ANGELES – Seven members of a South American crime ring were charged with burglarizing two jewelry stores, stealing over $1 million in jewelry from a Glendale shop and disabling 911 and internet service to more than a million homes and hospitals during a La Verne break-in.

LOS ANGELES – A jury convicted Ida Helen Brockman and her boyfriend, Malachi Xavier Whalen, of the torture and murder of Brockman’s 7-year-old daughter, A’Miya D., at their Hawthorne residence in September 2021.

INGLEWOOD, CA — As Independence Day approaches, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman is warning residents not to engage in the use, possession or sale of illegal fireworks, citing a recent case in which powerful explosives injured a woman and caused destruction in an Inglewood residential neighborhood.