ATWATER – On April 1, 2020, the Atwater Police Department, Merced County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, and the California Department of Justice served search warrants at two locations in Atwater related to a March 22, 2020 murder investigation in which...
MONTEREY COUNTY – On March 24, 2020, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced that Charles Allen Holifield, 59, was found guilty of the 1998 kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 13-year-old Christina Williams. Holifield was convicted...
ANDERSON – On March 24, 2020, the Anderson Police Department announced that, along with its local and state law enforcement partners, it concluded a year-long investigation into a sex trafficking operation involving eight massage parlors in Shasta County. ...
SACRAMENTO – On March 19, 2020, Pamela Emanuel, 58, of San Jose, was sentenced to six years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $773,733 in restitution for her role in scheme to defraud the state of California by filing false unemployment insurance...
OROVILLE - On March 13, 2020, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) announced the arrest of Timothy Gordon,54, of Oroville. The arrest was the result of a 10-month investigation into sexual abuse allegations. During the investigation, Gordon was interviewed...
GAVIOTA - On March 12, 2020 at approximately 3:30 a.m., Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office, along with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, California Highway Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, and California State Parks responded to the area of Gaviota...
ANZA - On March 12, 2020, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, with the assistance of California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Riverside County Code Enforcement, California Water Board and Riverside County Animal Control, served four marijuana...
SAN FRANCISCO – On February 27, 2020, a federal grand jury indictment was filed, charging licensed physician Timothy Mulligan, 67, of Santa Clara, with the unlawful distribution of opioids, including fentanyl, outside the scope of professional practice...
UKIAH – On March 3, 2020, Grant James Anderson, 31, and Adam Robert Bushaw, 35, both of Los Angeles, were remanded into custody in the Mendocino County Superior Court to begin serving jail sentences. Both men were convicted by plea of unlawfully manufacturing...
VALLEJO - On February 27, 2020, the Vallejo Police Department announced that it now has answers in a murder case that went unsolved for 47 years. Who killed Naomi Sanders, 57, inside her Vallejo apartment on February 27, 1973? Their answer came after...
SACRAMENTO – Investigators with the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) know how important it is for property owners with home improvement projects to hire licensed contractors, and the problems they can face when they don’t, and that’s why they conduct...
SACRAMENTO – California Alcoholic Beverage Control agents know how underage drinking can lead to tragedy and that’s why they work year-round to educate and enforce the law. Routinely they work with local law enforcement officers conducting undercover...
LOS ANGELES — California Department of Insurance detectives have arrested seven suspects on 31 felony charges of auto insurance fraud for their alleged involvement in a family-run organized auto insurance fraud ring dubbed Operation Car Seats. The suspects...
MODESTO – On February 18, 2020, Martin Martinez pleaded guilty to killing five people, including three children at a home in Modesto in July 2015. He was immediately sentenced to five consecutive sentences of life without parole. In addition, Martinez...
SACRAMENTO — On February 24, 2020, Dimas Ortiz, 26, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the U.S. Forest Service for growing marijuana on the National Forest and for depredation of Public...
FRESNO — On February 26, 2020, the California Department of Insurance announced that charges have been filed against Rashpal Virk, 57, and his son, Arwinder Virk, 26, for auto insurance fraud after the pair allegedly falsified an insurance claim in order...
