RIVERSIDE - On May 12, 2020, Steve Fulton, Secretary-Treasurer for the CHP Public Safety Dispatchers Association (CHP-PSDA) met with new dispatchers...
After the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) closed all its field offices to customers effective March 27, 2020, the California Statewide...
SACRAMENTO- On May 6, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom announced an executive order providing California’s essential workers with new workers’ compensation...
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...
SACRAMENTO – On May 19, 2020 California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced 12 operations throughout the state where special agents with the California Department of Justice seized dozens of firearms, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, ghost...
FORT BRAGG - On May 17, 2020, just before midnight, the Mendocino County Sheriff's dispatch center received a 911 call from North Harbor Drive in Fort Bragg. The caller reported that a number of people had just assaulted a person with a knife. When...
SISKIYOU COUNTY - On May 13, 2020, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office (SCS0) and its Siskiyou Interagency Marijuana Investigation Team (SIMIT), in partnership with the North State Major Investigation Team (NSMIT), a drug task force that is led by the...
ARCATA – On May 15, 2020, California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents posted Notices of Revocation at two bars in Arcata, prohibiting the sales of alcohol. The notices were posted at Toby and Jack’s and at Sidelines Sports Bar. According to ABC,...
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - On May 12, 2020 the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office Cold Case Task Force and the South Lake Tahoe Police Department announced the arrest of a suspect in the 2013 murder of Manpreet Singh, a clerk at US Gas in South Lake...
ESCONDIDO - On April 15, 2020, Special Investigators from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Investigative Services Unit, along with the Escondido Police Department, concluded a year-long investigation into a statewide illegal/unregistered...
FERNDALE - On April 27, 2020, deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET) served a search warrant to investigate illegal cannabis cultivation in the 2900 Block of Mattole Road in Ferndale. The California Department...
REDDING - On April 23, 2020, the bodies of two adult males, Ya Sosavanh, 68, and Cheng Chu, 64, both of Redding, were discovered at a Redding home. Investigators determined both men had been shot and called upon the California Department of Justice to...
OROVILLE- On April 2, 2020, in an effort to keep the community safe from the fast spreading coronavirus COVID-19, California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents and Oroville Police Department officers conducted an operation to confront people not...
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...
