Over the past 6-months, several 911 calls were placed that claimed violent crimes were being committed in various neighborhoods in the South Bay. The act is known as "swatting," and typically involves one or more people calling 911 and reporting a serious, violent crime in the hopes of eliciting a significant police response. In one recent [...]
A South Bay business owner is being charged with seven counts of misdemeanor identity theft after allegedly double-charging customers who wrote negative online reviews of his companies. According to reports, Steve Yojin Yun, the owner of two maid service companies, allegedly contacted customers who wrote negative reviews of his maid services and asked them if [...]
Patricia A. Francisco, 62, plead guilty in August to 4 counts of wire fraud committed at her place of employment, California Multimodal in Long Beach. Francisco lived in Huntington Beach and worked for the company as an accountant and, on several occasions, stole business checks from the company and made them out to "cash." She [...]
