The California Association of Criminal Investigators is currently accepting applications for scholarships that will be awarded to qualified members,...
WASHINGTON D.C. – When members of Congress and the public paid their respects to Representative John Lewis as his body lied in state at the United States Capitol on July 28-29, 2020, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Member and...
CHICO – On July 30, 2020, the Butte County District Attorney’s Office announced today criminal charges against a Chico businessman for the unlawful dumping of asbestos in a residential Chico neighborhood. In February of this year, the California Department...
SANTA MARIA - On July 29, 2020, detectives with the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office Cannabis Compliance Team executed a search warrant in the area of Pine Canyon and Highway 166 with the assistance of wardens from the California Department of Fish and...
MARTINEZ- On July 26, 200, Maurosan Milhomem pleaded no contest to six felonies related to his complex fraud schemes of insurance premium fraud and payroll tax fraud. He also admitted a white- collar crime enhancement that he caused the loss of more than...
COVNIA- During the week of July 20, 2020, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control's Cannabis Enforcement Unit, with the assistance of LA Impact, the Los Angeles County Fire Department and the California Department of Public Health, served a search...
LOS ANGELES – On July 22, 2020, a San Fernando Valley man was arrested on a series of weapons charges and a drug trafficking offense that alleges he possessed about 3.8 kilograms of heroin for sale. At his arraignment the next day, Edmond Tumasyan, 35,...
SACRAMENTO – On July 23, 2020, California Attorney Xavier Becerra today announced the arrests of two men and the filing of charges against Christopher Mancuso, John Black, and Joseph Tufo for allegedly operating a multimillion-dollar investment fraud...
SAN DIEGO – On June 22, 2020, former life insurance agent Christopher Dougherty, 47, was sentenced to 12 years in state prison after pleading guilty to three counts of securities fraud, three counts of grand theft, and a sentencing enhancement for running...
REDDING – On July 22, 2020, the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office announced that a jury found Morgan Eddy guilty of first degree murder for the April 2016 stabbing death of Pete Jeppesen in Redding. Eddy was originally convicted at a jury trial...
TRINITY COUNTY – On July 13 - 14, 2020, narcotics investigators with the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office, along with wardens and scientists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, special agents with the North State Major Crimes Investigation...
LOS ANGELES – On July 16, 2020, Andrew Marnell, 40, of Los Angeles man was arrested and ordered held without bond after on federal charges alleging he fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, some of which...
LOS ANGELES – ON July 14, 2020, Christopher Bathum, 58, the founder of a Los Angeles drug and alcohol treatment facility was sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a $175 million fraudulent healthcare billing scheme. The sentence will run concurrent...
FRESNO – On July 14, 2020, a Porterville man was arrested as a result of a federal grand jury five‑count indictment charging him with mail fraud and introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud. According to the indictment:...
LOS ANGELES– On June 30th, 2020, California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents posted a Notice of Suspension at Max Liquor, located at 2130 Sawtelle Boulevard, in the city of Los Angles. Alcohol sales at the location were immediately...
FRESNO- On July 9, 2020, Francisco Alcantar-Miranda, aka Paquin, 31, of Mexico, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana....
SACRAMENTO – On July 9, 2020, two Southern California brothers, Derek Stradley and Justin Stradley were arraigned and sentenced for tax evasion related to a Southern California counterfeit clothing scheme in which authorities seized an estimated $775,000...
