WEST SACRAMENTO- On September 16, 2019, nine California Highway Patrol (CHP) dispatchers training at the CHP academy in West Sacramento saw the...

VISALIA – On September 11, 2019, the California Association of Regulatory Investigators and Inspectors (CARII) hosted an evening informational...

SACRAMENTO – California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) attorneys spent some important time with new California Department of Motor...

RIVERSIDE – On September 4, 2019 California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Attorneys Jim Vitko and Stacy Olsen met with California...

  LOS ANGELES – The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) and its affiliate the CHP Public Safety Dispatchers Association...

Written by CSLEA Senior Counsel Andrea Perez SACRAMENTO – As the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association’s (CSLEA) tentative agreement...

The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) is proud to announce the recipients of this year's CSLEA Consumer Protection &...

RIVERSIDE -  Six California Highway Patrol (CHP) public safety dispatchers and operators training at the Ben Clark Training Center in Riverside...

SAN DIEGO – On September 16, 2019, Christopher James Stracuzzi, of San Diego, pleaded guilty in federal court, admitting that he distributed fentanyl that resulted in the death of a San Diego man. According to court documents, on the evening of July 18,...

MALIBU – On Saturday evening, September 14, 2019 California State Parks Lifeguard Dave Wilson was alerted on his cellphone by the PulsePoint app of a 911 call for a water rescue at Sycamore Cove Beach in Malibu.  Wilson, still in field training, immediately...

WOODLAND – On September 12, 2019, Rohail Sarwar, 28, of Woodland was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of Junying Lu at the Cottonwood Massage parlor in Woodland. On August 1, 2019, Sarwar was convicted of...

CARMEL -  On September 13, 2019,  California State Parks rangers assisted with two simultaneous calls, one involving a reckless driver who led Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies on a pursuit and then became trapped on a cliff after he bailed on foot;...

REDDING – On September 5, 2019 the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office announce that a jury found Patrick Tenerelli guilty of a felony charge for contracting without a license in a declared disaster area. The judge also found Tenerelli’s prior felony...

SALINAS – On August 30, 2019, Arthur Bright Jr., 71, was sentenced for a cannabis cultivation operation discovered at his Carmel Valley Road home in June 2018. Bright was sentence to three years of probation and ordered to serve 90 days jail. The illegal...

SACRAMENTO – On August 9, 2019, investigators with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Food and Drug Branch (FDB) observed a business in Sacramento that unlawfully stocked and was offering for sale misbranded prescription ophthalmic devices...

SANTA ANA– On August 27, 2019, a physician assistant at a Fountain Valley clinic was arrested on an 11-count federal grand jury indictment charging him with conspiring to issue prescriptions for the highly addictive opioid painkiller oxycodone, without...

LOS ANGELES -On August 26, 2019, a Studio City man pleaded guilty to operating a computerized odometer rollback business for vehicles that were leased from dealerships in the San Fernando Valley and Glendale. Serge Oganesian, 45, pleaded guilty to six...

SACRAMENTO- On August 23, 2019, former California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employee Aaron Gilliam, 51, of Sherman Oaks, was sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bribery, to commit identity fraud, and to commit unauthorized...

VACAVILLE – On August 22, 2019 the Solano County Sheriff’s Office Investigations Bureau arrested two suspects in a 2017 attempted homicide, kidnapping and robbery case.  A DNA match, investigative leads, and community members helped solve this cold case....

TERRA BELLA – On August 14, 2019, Tulare County Sheriff’s deputies conducted a welfare check at a home in Terra Bella.   A caller stated concern about two children possible in the home. The call was later believed to be a ruse, in order to get the Sheriff’s...

SALINAS - When a grieving mother, who lost her 20-year-old son to a solo, fatal vehicle accident, discovered her son was driving drunk, she turned to the California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to find out who furnished alcoholic beverages to her...

SALINAS, California- On August 14, 2019, Raymond John Coopersmith, Jr., 55, of Carmel, was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay a $3,000 fine for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance. Coopersmith faces up to one year in county...

SACRAMENTO – On August 8, 2019, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced the recipients of the 2018 Eastern District of California Law Enforcement Awards. These awards are presented annually to law enforcement agencies and investigators in the District’s...

OXNARD- On August 8, 2019, California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents posted a 45-day Notice of Suspension at of El Tenampa Cantina in Oxnard.  The business is prohibited from selling, serving and allowing consumption of alcoholic...