{"id":366279,"date":"2026-06-18T21:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366279\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:46:15","slug":"comedian-carlos-mencia-charged-with-tax-related-crimes-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366279\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Carlos Mencia charged with tax-related crimes \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Carlos Mencia was charged with tax evasion Thursday after he was accused of failing to pay personal and business taxes for six years, the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced the 12 charges against Mencia, who allegedly did not report personal and business income between 2019 and 2024, amounting to about $8.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Mencia was arrested at his Encino home Thursday morning, according to the DA&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n<p>Mencia, whose legal name is Ned Arnel Mencia, is best known for the Comedy Central series &#8220;Mind of Mencia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedian Carlos Mencia was charged with tax evasion Thursday after he was accused of failing to pay personal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,9686,50,49,1694],"class_list":["post-366279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county-district-attorney","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}