LAKE ELSINORE - On November 6, 2018, the Riverside Auto-Theft Interdiction Detail (R.A.I.D.) arrived at a residence in the city of Lake Elsinore to conduct a probation search and follow-up investigation related to auto-theft suspect Ernesto Valenzuela...
SACRAMENTO – When California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) investigators set up enforcement operations targeting those who use Disabled Persons Parking Placards (DPPP) illegally, they often receive big cheers from those who have real health or mobility...
VISALIA – On November 7, 2018, Kory Tapia, 41, was sentenced to 136 years-to-life in prison for raping an elderly woman in her Poterville home in October 2016. DNA work by California Department of Justice criminalists lead to Tapia’s arrest 24 days after...
SISKIYOU COUNTY - On Thursday, November 1, 2018, the Siskiyou Unified Major Investigation Team (SUMIT), a California Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Investigation task force, served a search warrant at a home near Dunsmuir which resulted in three...
FRESNO. — On November 5, 2018, Maximiliano Farias-Martinez (Farias), 49, a Mexican national residing in Merced County, pleaded guilty to conspiring to cultivate marijuana. According to court documents, Farias supervised Jose Manuel Sanchez-Zapien (Sanchez),...
SACRAMENTO— On November 5, 2018, a Georgia woman was sentenced to two years in prison for her role in a casino and credit card fraud scheme that targeted casinos nationwide, including Red Hawk and Cache Creek casinos in California. Vivian Wang, 55, was...
THOUSAND PALMS – On October 30, 2018, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office announced the seizure of nearly 1,150 marijuana plants at a dispensary operating illegally in Thousand Palms, an unincorporated area of the county. The county’s Cannabis...
SAN FERNANDO - When the California Highway Patrol suspected automotive repair fraud on one of its Crown Victoria patrol vehicles, it called upon the skilled professionals in the California Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) Field Operations and Enforcement...
WILLITS – On October 26, 2018, Mendocino County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Marcus L. Caldwell, 27, of Willits, on one count of forcible rape after criminalists at a California Department of Justice (DOJ) lab conducted a DNA comparison of rape kit evidence...
CLOVIS – On October 16-17, 2018, the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) teamed with the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office and the Clovis Police Department to conduct an undercover sting operation targeting suspected unlicensed contractors in...
FONTANA – In an effort to reduce underage drinking and the problems and crimes associated with it, California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents and Fontana Police officers conducted a decoy shoulder tap operation in the city of Fontana on October...
OAKLEY – On October 10-12, 2018, the Contractors State License Board worked with the Oakley Police Department to conduct an undercover sting targeting those who contract for home improvement work without the necessary CSLB license. The investigators set...
LOS ANGELES – On October 18, 2018, California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) investigators arrested a Studio City man who allegedly operated a computerized odometer rollback business for vehicles that were leased from dealerships in the San Fernando...
RIVERSIDE – On October 18, 2018, the California Department of Justice, the Riverside Police Department, and the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office released details of a six-month investigation dubbed Operation “Eastbound and Down” which was...
BAKERSFIELD- On October 15, 2018, investigators from the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Southern Tri-County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (STC-HIDTA), with the assistance from Homeland Security Investigations, Drug Enforcement Agency, and California...
BODEGA BAY - The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office is crediting California State Park Ranger Tim Murphy for locating a stolen Honda Pilot that, hours earlier, was the subject of a pursuit in which the pursuing deputy accidently crashed into an occupied...
