RANCHO CORDOVA – On February 14, 2019, five new California State Parks communications operators received a visit from California Statewide Law...

SANTA YNEZ- The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) affiliate California Association of Criminal Investigators (CACI) hosted...

SACRAMENTO – On February 13, 2019, seven new Cal Cannabis special investigators met with California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA)...

NORWALK – As the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) and its affiliate associations prepare for contract negotiations with...

  WEST SACRAMENTO – On February 4, 2019, California Highway Patrol (CHP) dispatchers training at the CHP academy in West Sacramento met...

NORWALK - On January 21, 2019, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Supervising Attorney Dave De La Riva met with 11 new...

SACRAMENTO – The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) and its 17 affiliate associations are holding an event that CLSEA members...

SACRAMENTO – The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) welcomed new California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Licensing...

REDDING – On February 19, 2019, California Alcoholic Beverage Control agents joined the Anderson Police Department and the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office in assisting Redding Police with a “Quality of Life” enforcement effort.  The effort targeted...

LOS ANGELES – On February 15, 2019, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced that his office filed 40 criminal charges against the owners and operators of Playhouse nightclub in Hollywood for alleged after-hours alcohol sales, over-serving customers...

FRESNO -  On February 19, 2019 Jose Manuel Sotelo-Mendoza, 26, of Ceres, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.  He was busted when he and co-defendant Oscar Ivan Salazar-Avalos, 28, a citizen...

DIAMOND BAR  — On February 13, 2019, three medical office employees were arrested for allegedly filing more than $4 million in false insurance claims for treatments they claimed they received from their employer at Diamond Bar ENT Medical Specialty Group....

SANTA ANA– His arrest in California was years in the making, but finally, an Irvine man is back in the United States and California to face fraud charges for the embezzlement of $3.2 million in public funds from a charter school in Santa Ana. Emilio Vazquez,...

APTOS – A man threatening to jump off a pier at Seacliff State Beach in Aptos is getting the mental health assistance he needs after he was assisted to safety by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office and State Parks rangers and first responders. On February...

LOS ANGELES— On February 13, 2019, the California Department of Insurance (CDI) announced the arrest of licensed podiatrist, Schlomo Schmuel, 53, of Sherman Oaks.  Schmuel self-surrendered to CDI detectives on two felony counts of fraud after allegedly...

LOS ANGELES - On February 11, 2019, the Labor Commissioner’s Office announced it cited a Southern California subcontractor for nearly $12 million in wage theft violations that left more than a thousand workers waiting weeks or months to be paid, only...

SACRAMENTO – On February 7, 2019, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control and the Department of Consumer Affairs’ Division of Investigation-Cannabis Enforcement Unit (DOI-CEU) announced enforcement action on two unlicensed cannabis businesses in the...

MODESTO – On February 7, 2019, Modesto Police Department detectives arrested Seth Becknel, 18, for the April 2017 murder and sex assault of Jenny Wu, 41, who had been reported missing from a mental health care facility. “This is a case in which a suspect...

MADERA – When the Madera County Sheriff’s Office Narcotic Enforcement Team uncovered a methamphetamine conversion lab on January 31, 2019, it called upon California Department of Justice criminalists to assist with the dismantling and clean up. “Drug...

FRESNO— On February 4, 2019, Kiandre Johnson, 25, of Fresno, was sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison for engaging in crimes of conspiracy to commit murder and human trafficking.  He was one of 28 people arrested in 2016, and one of 10 criminals...

SAN DIEGO – It’s a case that garnered the largest fines ever imposed in an ivory trafficking case in California.  On February 5, 2019, the San Diego City Attorney’s office announced that the Carlton Gallery in La Jolla, its owner, and an employee will...

CARPINTERIA - On January 31, 2019, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Cannabis Compliance Team concluded a four-month investigation into Power Farms LLC, a local cannabis cultivator operating just outside the City of Carpinteria.  During the investigation,...

SANTA ROSA – On January 14, 2019, an unlicensed contractor arrested after seven consumer complaints alleging that he took nearly $30,000, and provided minimal landscaping work before abandoning the jobs, plead guilty to 11 counts against him, including...

LOS ANGELES – On January 31, 2019, a Ventura County man was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for participating in a massive and fraudulent unemployment scheme that used dozens of nonexistent companies to collect nearly $5 million in unemployment...