LOS ANGELES ? A man from the mid-city area of Los Angeles was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison for illegally selling more than two dozen firearms, including machine gun conversion devices ? sometimes known as ?switches? and ?ghost guns,? or firearms that lack serial numbers.

SAN DIEGO?? A superseding indictment was partially unsealed in the Southern District of California today charging Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta, an alleged drug trafficker, with murdering two people to prevent them from testifying in drug trafficking prosecutions that were pending in federal...