RIVERSIDE COUNTY - On January 13, 2021, personnel from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, Riverside County Code Enforcement, California Department of Fish and Wildlife and California Department of Food and Agriculture served five marijuana cultivation...
LOS ANGELES—On January 11, 2021, licensed insurance agents Robert Farmer, 65, of Camarillo and Marion Urcan, 67, of Agoura Hills, were arraigned in Los Angeles County Superior Court on multiple counts of grand theft after allegedly accepting more than...
SANTA ANA- On December 31, 2020, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announce that the owner of a Costa Mesa bar has been charged with illegally operating during the COVID-19 pandemic despite repeated attempts by law enforcement and the city...
SACRAMENTO – On December 28, 2020, the California Department of Insurance announced that Jorge Gerardo Maldonado, 55, of Sacramento, is charged with three felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly underreporting payroll and employees to illegally...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – On December 19, 2020, California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents partnered with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and the San Diego Police Department for a joint drunk decoy operation in Encinitas and San...
LOS ANGELES – On December 18, 2020 the California Department of Insurance announced the arrests of Hazel Edwards, 59, of Menifee, and her daughter Laquinta Lowe, 38, of Chula Vista. Both women were arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud...
SAN DIEGO – On December 17, 2020, a former contract employee with California’s Employment Development Department, which administers the state’s unemployment insurance program, was charged in federal court with fraud and identity theft in connection with...
LOS ANGELES – On December 17, 2020, former insurance agent Lloyd Gronich, 61, of Oak Park, was arraigned on 29 felony counts of grand theft, identity theft and unauthorized computer access, as well as 13 misdemeanor counts of theft after allegedly stealing...
ANZA- On December 17, 2020, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, California Department of Fish and Wildlife and California Department of Food and Agriculture served five marijuana cultivation related search warrants in the unincorporated Riverside...
LOS ANGELES – On December 16, 2020, a Riverside County woman pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge for fraudulently obtaining more than $500,000 in COVID-related unemployment benefits for herself. Cara Marie Kirk-Connell, 32, of Menifee, pleaded...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY - On December 12, 2020, California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents teamed with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to conduct a joint “drunk decoy” operation in Santee and Lakeside. From 10:00 a.m. to 4:00...
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY - On December 15, 2020, the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation Identity Theft Unit authored search warrants in a complex and ongoing Employment Development Department (EDD) unemployment insurance fraud...
UKIAH – On December 10, 2020, Zachary Pierre Brown, 41, of Ukiah, was in court for his post-plea formal sentencing. Brown was convicted by guilty plea on October 23rd of maintaining a location for the unlawful cultivation of non-licensed cannabis, a...
RIVERSIDE COUNTY – On December 1, 2020, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control’s Enforcement Unit served a multi-location search warrant concerning an unlicensed cannabis delivery service based in Riverside County. The Riverside County District Attorney's...
FRESNO— On December 1, 2020, Carmen Arreguin, 62, was arraigned on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud, arson and reporting a false crime after allegedly committing vehicular arson and reporting her car stolen to receive an undeserved insurance...
MENDOCINO COUNTY – On November 24, 2020, criminalists from the California Department of Justice crime lab in Eureka were called upon by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office to assist with preserving and collecting evidence where two bodies were discovered...
