SACRAMENTO- On February 9, 2021, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Senior Counsel Andrea Perez had the pleasure of conducting...
LOS ANGELES –On January 17, 2021, Exposition Park Department of Public Safety (DPS) Museum Security Officer Jesus Castillo, a member of the California...
RIVERSIDE COUNTY - On February 18, 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 six marijuana cultivation-related...
SACRAMENTO – On February 11, 2021, two siblings, Yan Lu and William Lu, were charged with allegedly under-reporting millions of dollars in sales and evading sales tax for the Mama Lu restaurants they own in Monterey Park. Both Yan Lu and William Lu pleaded...
SAN DIEGO – On February 8, 2021, Jonathan Madison, 29, of San Diego pleaded guilty in federal court to sex trafficking of children, admitting that he knowingly recruited, advertised, and solicited teenage girls and women to engage in commercial sex acts....
LOS ANGELES – On January 27, 2021, former licensed insurance agent and customer service representative Laura Lopez, 37, of Long Beach, was arraigned on one felony count of grand theft after allegedly collecting more than $97,000 in insurance premiums...
LONG BEACH - On the night of January 30, 2021, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) officer partnered with the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) on a joint agency boat patrol in and around Long Beach Harbor. While on patrol, the officers...
PALO ALTO – On February 2, 2021, California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents posted a Notice of Suspension at Ernie’s Liquors on El Camino Real in Palo Alto. The license has been ordered revoked, with the revocation stayed for six...
MONTEREY COUNTY– On February 3, 2021, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced that Jose Luis Mendoza, 47, was found guilty by court trial of contracting without a license, a violation of Business & Professions code section 7028, and...
MONTEREY COUNTY - On February 2, 2021, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced that seven people have been charged with unemployment insurance fraud. Five are Monterey County jail inmates: Tony Nguyen Tran, Lanh Van Truong, Juan Castillo...
MONTEREY COUNTY – On February 2, 202, Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni announced that Hilda Beatriz Valencia Flores, 29, of Salinas, will be sentenced to prison for three counts of gross vehicular manslaughter with intoxication and...
LONG BEACH– On February 1, 2021, California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents posted a Notice of Revocation at Taco Beach, a restaurant located on Pine Avenue in Long Beach. The business is prohibited from serving, selling and allowing...
MONTEREY COUNTY - On February 2, 2021, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced that its Environmental Protection Unit entered into a stipulated judgment with Growers Transplanting, Inc. to settle a civil action brought under Business...
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY – On February 1, 2020, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office announced that James Fuentes, 44, was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison after pleading to one count of forced oral copulation, a violent felony...
OROVILLE -On January 30-31, 2021, California Alcoholic Beverage (ABC) agents and Oroville Police Department officers conducted two operations targeting alcohol related violations, including furnishing alcohol to someone under 21 and loitering and consuming...
LONG BEACH – On February 1, 2021, agents from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) posted a 25-day Notice of Suspension at Green Diamond Liquor on Long Beach Boulevard in Long Beach. An investigation determined that in 2019, a...
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY - Shortly after noon on a stormy January 28, 2021, a driver found herself trapped on a road in which a swollen creek was flooding both in front and behind her vehicle. It happened on Refugio Road along the Gaviota Coast in Santa...
BERKELEY – On January 21, 2021, agents from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control posted a 45-day Notice of Suspension at the Safeway store located at 1444 Shattuck Place in Berkeley. Alcohol sales are immediately prohibited and cannot...
