SACRAMENTO – On January 13, 2020, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) President Alan Barcelona and the entire CSLEA Board...

SACRAMENTO- On January 13, 2020, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) officers and directors met at CSLEA headquarters for...

SACRAMENTO – On January 13, 2020, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Directors travelled to the State Capitol for a scheduled...

SACRAMENTO – The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Legal Representation Committee (LRC) met at CSLEA headquarters in Sacramento...

LOS ANGELES – On January 7, 2020, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant ruled in favor of the California Statewide Law Enforcement...

OROVILLE – Prior to the start of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Academy Class 63, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association...

By CSLEA/CACI Member James Potts COVINA – When children in Covina met at the Man-e Moreno Foundation 212 Training Center for an ugly Christmas...

  SACRAMENTO - The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) welcomed seven new members following new employee orientations...

FRESNO- On January 16, 2020, a federal jury found Jose Roberto Arreola-Serrato, 31, of Tulare, guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. According to court documents and evidence produced...

SAN DIEGO— On January 7, 2020, Zaharia Bakier, 34, who fled the United States after criminal charges were filed against him in San Diego County, was arrested for alleged vehicle insurance fraud. An investigation by the California Department of Insurance’s...

LOS ANGELES – On January 6, 2020, the founder of a Los Angeles drug and alcohol treatment facility pleaded no contest to running a $175 million fraudulent healthcare billing scheme. Christopher Bathum, 58, entered the plea to 14 felony counts: seven counts...

Written and submitted by CSLEA Member Joel Lambert, CDPH investigator MOUNTAIN PASS - On December 9, 2019, investigators from the California Department of Public Health, Food and Drug Branch, Food Transportation Enforcement Unit conducted commercial vehicle...

LONG BEACH- On January 2, 2020, California Department of Insurance (CDI) detectives arrested insurance agent Gelinda Phann Keo, 43, on one felony count of grand theft after she allegedly pocketed a client’s insurance payment of $5,500, leaving that client’s...

SACRAMENTO - On December 10-12, 2019, the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) conducted a series of coordinated sting operations in five California counties which resulted in citations for 46 suspected unlicensed contractors. The undercover operations...

REDDING - On December 18 and 20, 2019, California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents joined officers from the Redding Police Department to conduct a shoulder tap and minor decoy operation in the areas of Redding, Anderson and Shasta...

SACRAMENTO-On December 20, 2019,  Yaniv Gohar, 36, formerly of Berkeley, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for conducting an illegal gambling business, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and failure to appear. According to court...

LONG BEACH - On December 17, 2019 California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents and Long Beach Police officers arrested Amor Amacio, 56, of Norwalk for allegedly selling alcohol to Carlo Navarro, 20, of Long Beach, who hours later,...

CAMBRIA – On December 16, 2019, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office received a call regarding an Amber Alert suspect who had been spotted at the Shell gas station in Cambria. The Amber Alert had been issued earlier in the day by the San Jose Police Department....

SAN DIEGO – On December 14, 2019, California Department of Alcoholic Beverage control (ABC) agents and San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies conducted a drunk decoy operation in Encinitas and Solana Beach.   The goal was to educate store clerks about not...

LOS ANGELES - The California Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) and Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA)  Cannabis Enforcement Unit recently conducted a series of enforcement actions against illegal cannabis retailers operating in Los Angeles. Investigators...

SACRAMENTO- On December 5, 2019, a federal grand jury brought a 14-count indictment against a physician, Edmund Kemprud, of Dublin, charging him with prescribing opioids to patients outside the usual course of professional practice and not for legitimate...

SACRAMENTO-  On December 10, 2019,  Pamela Emanuel, 59, of San Jose, pleaded guilty for her role in a scheme to defraud the state of California by filing false unemployment insurance claims seeking more than $2.4 million dollars. Emanuel pleaded guilty...

LOS ANGELES— On December 9, 2019 the California Department of Insurance announced the jail sentence for Vermyttya Miller, 37, of Santa Clarita, after she plead no contest to one count of insurance fraud involving The Knot. Miller  was sentenced to five...

MODESTO -  On December 9, 2019, the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office announced that Michael Zendejas, a former owner of a Modesto temporary employment agency, has been convicted of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud and was ordered...