Los Angeles, Calif. (08/21/2017) – A wealthy Los Angeles couple has pled guilty to one count of human trafficking and one count of being an accessory after the fact, after being indicted by a grand jury. Astati Halim and Hendra Anwar, who previously pled guilty in federal court to misuse of visas and minimum wage violations, held three Indonesian immigrants as indentured servants, withheld their passports and paid them virtually nothing. The couple, who had initially pled not

Crescent City, Calif. (06/26/2017) -- A jury found defendant Bryan Ranger, age 63, guilty of child molestation and rape perpetrated against five of his nine children. Prosecuted by CASE President, Peter Flores, Jr., Ranger was convicted of nine counts of forcible child molestation and one count of forcible rape of a child, after a two-week trial and three hours of deliberation. Ranger, a former social worker, lived off the grid in Del Norte County and kept his family in isola