WEST SACRAMENTO -On November 16, 2020, new CHP dispatchers training at the academy in West Sacramento spent some time getting to know their representatives...

By CSLEA Senior Counsel Jim Vitko SACRAMENTO - On October 28, 2020, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Chief Counsel Kasey...

Decades and decades of ground gained By maintaining union membership, state workers take a stand against those who want to take it all away CSLEA...

“This fund is so important to CSLEA members who suddenly find themselves in need of legal assistance for criminal or civil matters arising from...

SACRAMENTO - In an effort to ensure that all Unit 7 peace officers have the legal authority to carry firearms which are not on the list of weapons...

The California Association of Fraud Investigators (CAFI)  is currently accepting applications for scholarships that will be awarded to qualified...

The California Association of Criminal Investigators (CACI) Board of Directors would like to congratulate the five deserving winners of its first...

EL CAJON -  There’s a lot going on in terms of wildfires in California, but that’s not scaring away those who are working to become CAL FIRE...

SACRAMENTO – On November 19, 2020, the California Attorney General’s Office announced the arrest and arraignment of nine people on 136 felony counts for allegedly operating an advance fee mortgage relief scam that claimed to prevent the foreclosure of...

SANTA ANA – On November 18, 2020, a former physician assistant at a Fountain Valley medical clinic pleaded guilty to a federal charge that he conspired to issue and sell prescriptions for oxycodone, a highly addictive opioid painkiller, without a medical...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY – On November 17, 2020,  the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced charges have been filed against two men for allegedly submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications on behalf of homeless people....

SACRAMENTO— On November 17, 2020 the California Department of Insurance announced that co-workers Rajdeep Singh, 35, of Rocklin, and David Bailey, Jr., 29, of Sacramento, were arrested on multiple counts of insurance fraud and arson after allegedly conspiring...

TULARE COUNTY - On November 4, 2020, the Tulare County Superior Court sentenced Robert Duran, 39, to 56 years-to-life in prison for conspiracy to commit murder. On December 18, 2018, a jury convicted Duran of conspiracy to commit murder with the special...

REDDING – On November 13, 2020 the Redding Police Department announced an arrest in the 1995 murder of Christine Munro, 37, who was attacked and killed while jogging on a trail along the Sacramento River in Redding  on June 24th.   Munro was a nurse and...

SACRAMENTO – On November 12, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the arraignments of Ashot Mamikonyan and Lorraine Watson, the final two of nine defendants charged in an extensive fraud scheme involving All Care One Community Health...

REDDING— On November 12, 2020, Donn Lurrinda Hayden, 36, of Anderson was arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud, filing a false police report, and witness intimidation for allegedly reporting her vehicle stolen after a crash in which she...

GILROY -  On November 9, 2020, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced that a  Gilroy husband and wife have been charged with human trafficking for allegedly locking a man in a liquor store where he worked 15-hour shifts, seven days...

SACRAMENTO – On November 5, 2020, two Mexican nationals were sentenced for a conspiracy to cultivate marijuana, marijuana cultivation in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and depredation of federal lands and resources. Armando Vargas Garcia, 38, and...

REDDING – On November 5, 2020, four clerks working at various businesses in Anderson were cited for selling alcohol to a customer under the age of 21.  The customer was actually a decoy working under the supervision of California Alcoholic Beverage Control...

MONTEREY COUNTY – On November 3, 2020, election day, former candidate for the 30th Assembly District for the State of California Neil Kitchens, 53, of Prunedale, entered a plea of no contest to one count of filing a false declaration of candidacy, a felony...

LOS ANGELES – On November 3, 2020,  an Inglewood woman and her mother-in-law, both of whom ran a South Los Angeles drug and alcohol abuse treatment program, pleaded guilty to a health care fraud charge for fraudulently submitting more than $500,000 in...

ISLA VISTA – On November 2, 2020, the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office thanked their allied agencies, including California Alcoholic Beverage Control agents, for assisting in the planning and logistics involved in their 2020 Halloween Operation in Isla...

HUMBOLDT COUNTY - On November. 2, 2020, Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies served three search warrants to investigate illegal cannabis cultivation in the greater Humboldt Bay area. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife and Humboldt County Code...

ORANGE— On November 2, 2020, Glory Ghosh, 24, of Northridge, was arraigned on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly filing a fraudulent insurance claim stating her car was stolen.  She is accused of filing the claim after the car was...