FAIRFIELD - On September 17, 2018, Lamont Jarome James,34, of Benicia, was sentenced to 11 years in state prison, which included the high term for the offense and enhancements for the prior convictions. On May 21, 2018, a jury found James guilty of two...
OAKLEY - On Friday, September 14, 2018, the Contra Costa County Anti-Violence Support Effort (CASE) Team carried out a search warrant at the Oakley home of a person suspected of unlawfully possessing weapons. During the search of the suspect’s home,...
SANTA ROSA— On September 17, 2018, Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su announced a settlement to recover more than $450,000 in wages, penalties and interest for 15 residential care workers who suffered overtime and other wage theft violations. L’Chaim House...
SACRAMENTO – On September 14, 2018, Damanpreet Singh, 33, of Los Angeles, was sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to commit bribery, identity fraud and unauthorized access of a computer in a bribery case that that resulted in individuals passing...
REDDING – During the second week of September 2018, investigators from the Contractors State License Board and the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office conducted an undercover fraudulent contractor sting operation. The operation took place in an area...
SACRAMENTO – On September 12, 2018, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the arrest of eight people accused of attempting to defraud the State’s Beverage Container Recycling Program by smuggling out-of-state empty beverage containers for...
KING CITY – On September 11, 2018, the California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) announced that ABC agents posted a 30-day Notice of Suspension at the Mariscos El Camaron restaurant in King City. ABC filed an accusation against the business earlier...
COVELO- On September 7, 2018 at approximately 11:40 p.m., Mendocino County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a reported shooting at a residence in the community of Covelo. As deputies arrived Round Valley Tribal Police (RVTP) officers were at the...
SANTA ANA – On September 11, 2018, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced the August 2018 arrests of five suspects in Southern California connected to the theft of newer, high-end vehicles via fraud and/or the fraudulent removal of the...
MERCED - On September 5, 2018, a Merced County jury found Norteno criminal street gang members Jose Hernandez and David Zamora, both 23, guilty of two counts of murder for the April 2015 shooting that killed Salvador Medina, 36, and Jose Zamora, 18....
LOS ANGELES- On September 8, 2018, Andrew Barcoma Go, 51, of Bellflower, was arrested on seven felony counts including six for identity theft and one for grand theft after allegedly falsifying information on insurance applications to steal more than $34,000...
SAN JOSE - On August 30, 2018, a married couple who ran Sunrooms America, Inc. were returned to California to face felony charges following their August 9, 2018 arrest in Arizona. Constance Ruth Gabriel, 51, and William Ernest Gabriel, 65, have been...
SACRAMENTO – On September 10, 2018, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the arrest and indictment of 32 people associated with criminal street gangs throughout Northern California known as the BullyBoys and the CoCo Boys. The gangs and...
SACRAMENTO – On September 7, 2018, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the arrest of, and charges against, a family of four for human trafficking and other labor-related crimes. The four family members allegedly committed these crimes while...
MONTEREY - On August 28, 2018, Jose Maria Lopez Sarabia, 34, of Watsonville pled guilty to two misdemeanor charges for contracting without a license and failing to secure workers’ compensation insurance for his employees and was sentenced to 3 years’...
LOS ANGELES— On September 5, 2018, the Labor Commissioner’s Office announced it cited six garment contractors $573,704 for labor law violations after uncovering a scheme where the contractors illegally operated under one license to avoid compliance. In...
