An Update for DMV Examiners By CSLEA Senior Counsel Ryan Navarre SACRAMENTO - On June 17, 2020, the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association...
SAN FRANCISCO – On July 2, 2020 the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced the prison sentence of Linda Nguyen for her role in a multi-million-dollar disability fraud scheme. Nguyen was sentenced to two years in prison. She plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy...
SACRAMENTO—On July 1, 2020, CalRecycle announced that California Department of Justice special agents arrested nine suspects allegedly involved in an organized recycling fraud ring that stretched from Phoenix to Los Angeles. The network of buyers, sellers,...
SACRAMENTO- One June 25, 2020, five people were indicted for the burglary of a Vacaville gun shop, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Court documents state that on June 1, police responded to reports of suspicious activity at Guns, Fishing and Other...
SACRAMENTO – On June 18, 2020, the California Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Hazem Saba for operating as an unlicensed tobacco distributor and failing to pay nearly $400,000 in taxes to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration....
RED BLUFF - On June 27, 2020 at about 3:32 pm, the Tehama County Sheriff's Office received multiple 911 calls of an active shooter at the Walmart Distribution Center in Red Bluff. Deputies and local law enforcement officers from allied agencies began...
GRASS VALLEY – During the last week of May, criminalists from the California Department of Justice (DOJ) respond with a mobile crime lab to the scene of a double murder in Nevada County, as requested by the Nevada County Sheriff's Office. "Criminalists...
SACRAMENTO – On June 18, 2020, the California Department of Justice announced misdemeanor price gouging charges against Katrin Golian, doing business as RxAll Pharmacy, an independently-owned business located in Los Angeles. "The California Department...
FRESNO- On June 16, 2020, Tommie Thomas, 37, of Bakersfield, was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. According to court documents, on Dec. 14, 2017, after a 10-month...
LOS ANGELES – On June 12, 2020, four Mexican nationals were named in a federal grand jury indictment charging them with possessing and intending to distribute more than 4,700 pounds of marijuana, which they allegedly transported on a fishing boat that...
MERCED - On June 13, 2020, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff’s conducted an investigation into the illegal cultivation, manufacturing, and processing of marijuana in the 5700 Block of West Highway 140, by serving a search warrant on two large...
NAPA- ON JUNE 16, 2020, The Napa County District Attorney announced the distribution of $150,000 in restitution to the victims of Curtis Correll, the former owner of Midas/Speedee franchises in Napa, Petaluma, and Vacaville. Following an investigation...
SAN DIEGO- Congratulations and kudos to California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Member Israel Garcia, a California Department of Insurance (CDI) detective who on May 15, 2020 was honored by U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer in the third annual...
Written by California ABC CARPINTERIA - On March 20, 2020, California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Ventura District Office agents Kim Rodriguez, Sovantana Tan, and Alberto Villanueva were working field enforcement during the global Covid-19 pandemic....
HUMBOLDT COUNTY - On May 26, 2020, deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET) served a search warrant to investigate illegal cannabis cultivation in the Weitchpec area. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife,...
VENTURA- The Ventura Police Department and California State Parks Department are investigating a homicide after a sexual assault suspect who was attacked by a group of people near Emma Wood State Beach, died. Jose Mendez, 31, had been hospitalized since...
RIVERSIDE - In 2019, the Riverside Auto-Theft Interdiction Detail (RAID) began an investigation into a criminal organization involved in Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) switching on a high number of stolen vehicles, many of which were sold to innocent...
