LOS ANGELES - On December 6, 2019, two men were sentenced for stealing nearly $4 million in cash and luxury vehicles in a high-end automobile sublease scam in the San Fernando Valley. Arman Mave Hazarian, aka Dean Hazarian, 48, of Tarzana was sentenced to nine years in state prison and Afshin Hashemi, aka Al Hashemi, […]

PALMDALE - On November 6, 2019, California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) investigators assisted Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies from the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station with a license plate enforcement operation aimed at confirming current vehicle registration and detecting stolen vehicles. The enforcement operation was set up was set up in Palmdale city limits in […]

SAN DIEGO – On September 12, 2019, Almamy Baba Ly, of La Mesa,  pleaded guilty in federal court to identity theft charges, admitting that he misused the identity of a deceased American citizen for 31 years in order to obtain identification documents, as well as thousands of dollars in federal, state and local government benefits. […]

LOS ANGELES -On August 26, 2019, a Studio City man pleaded guilty to operating a computerized odometer rollback business for vehicles that were leased from dealerships in the San Fernando Valley and Glendale. Serge Oganesian, 45, pleaded guilty to six felony counts: one count of conspiracy to commit grand theft and five counts of computer […]