STANISLAUS COUNTY -Between May 31-June 4, 2021 the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of California state law enforcement officers, targeted outdoor and indoor illicit marijuana grows throughout Stanislaus County, eradicating plants,...
“This case of health care fraud involved millions and millions of dollars and if not for state and federal investigators, may never have been prosecuted. They are the protectors of programs that are in place to assist people, these programs are not in...
COACHELLA - On June 2, 2021, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Coachella Valley Violent Crime Gang Task Force with the assistance of the Riverside Auto Theft Interdiction Detail (RAID) and California Department of Fish and Wildlife, served search...
KERN COUNTY – On June 2, 2021, the Kern County District Attorney’s Office announced that the Kern County Grand Jury issued indictments against seven defendants alleging a conspiracy to defraud the worker's compensation voucher system for retraining injured...
LOS ANGELES— On May 28, 2021, Nissim Vaknin, 49, of Encino, was arraigned for felony insurance fraud after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) revealed he allegedly underreported employee payroll by more than $70 million in...
“This was an investigation that included multiple law enforcement and criminal justice agencies which demonstrates the work that can be done when teams of investigators work together. There is no place for human trafficking in our society.” – Alan Barcelona,...
MONTEREY COUNTY – On May 26, 2021, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced that Gabriel Otero was sentenced to 35 years in prison for robbery while personally using a firearm for the benefit of the Norteno Criminal Street Gang. On November...
“There is no denying science and it is the work done by California DOJ criminalists that allow detectives to positively identify suspects, obtain arrest warrants and remove sex offenders from our streets where they are a threat to our safety and the safety...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY -On May 25, 2021, investigators from the California Bureau of Cannabis Control’s Cannabis Enforcement Unit, with the assistance of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, served a search warrant on an unlicensed dispensary known...
FRESNO — On May 24, 2021, Salvador Castro Jr., 51, of Fresno, was sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison for conspiring to sell more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. Castro was one of more than 50 individuals charged in June 2019 as part of...
NEWPORT BEACH - On Sunday, May 23, 2021, a joint enforcement operation utilizing more than 50 motorcycle officers and other police officers from the: Newport Beach Police Department (NBPD), Seal Beach Police Department (SBPD), Huntington Beach Police...
SACRAMENTO -On May 24, 2021, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) announced that its ABC agents and officers from more than 40 local police and sheriff’s departments cited more than 150 people during a statewide underage drinking...
“Unemployment insurance fraud and related crimes surrounding that fraud are being investigated on every level – county, state and federal. It is deplorable that individuals attempted to profit when so many fellow citizens were in need due to sudden,...
BAKERSFIELD- On May 24, 2021, Kirankumar “Ken” Patel, 53, was sentenced in Kern County Superior Court after pleading no contest to five felony counts of accessory to a crime. Patel filed a fraudulent insurance claim on behalf of his family who owned...
SANTA ROSA – On May 20, 2021, William Brown, 41, of Santa Rosa, was sentenced to 20 years in state prison after pleading “no contest” in February to three felony sex offenses, including the rape of a victim who was under the age of 14. In 2011, the...
SAN DIEGO – On May 19, 2021, Tony Davis, 65, pleaded guilty in federal court, admitting that he supplied fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of Jacqueline Galvan, 41, of San Diego on October 24, 2018. According to his plea agreement, Davis agreed...
