SAN FRANCISCO – On June 18, 2018 the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced charges against Vi Thieu Binh, 67, for selling and holding for sale, prescription drugs without a license. Binh is also charged with selling and holding for sale counterfeit,...
LAGUNA BEACH – When California State Parks rangers discovered a panga boat that washed ashore in Crystal Cove State Park early June 19, 2018, they quickly accessed the seriousness of the situation, called in additional allied resources, and began searching...
PLACERVILLE - On June 13, 2018, an El Dorado County jury convicted Nolen Keith Buchanan of three counts of first degree murder with multiple enhancements for the use of a firearm in the commission of his crimes. “This cold blooded, calculated killer was...
SAN DIEGO – On June 18,2018 Beverly Hills Radiologist Ronald Grusd and two of his corporations, California Imaging Network Medical Group and Willows Consulting Company, were sentenced in federal court after a jury trial in December resulted in convictions...
LOS ANGELES – On June 14, 2018, a joint operation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the California Department of Justice led to the seizure of 553 firearms in Agua Dulce, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County. Special agents and...
EUREKA - On June 13 and 14, 2018, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) wardens assisted deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) in serving search warrants to investigate the illegal cultivation of marijuana...
SACRAMENTO – On June 18, 2018 the California Attorney General announced the arrest and arraignment of David William Reimers, 52, of El Dorado Hills, on 126 felony charges involving financial fraud against numerous elderly victims. The Attorney General’s...
LOS ANGELES - On June 13, 2018, the California Department of Insurance announced that Erwin Raul Mejia, 42, of Van Nuys, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison following his conviction on 10 felony counts of insurance fraud for his role in a staged...
EUREKA – On June 12, 2018, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office announced that three people charged in a succulent plant poaching case out of Humboldt County have each pled guilty to two...
SACRAMENTO- On June 7, 2018, Raeef Ohan Ohan, 59, of Stockton, pleaded guilty in a criminal case that involved the sale of stolen cargo. According to court documents, from 2012 to 2014, Ohan received and possessed thousands of dollars’ worth of stolen...
SAN DIEGO – On June 4, 2018, the San Diego County District Attorney announced that neuropsychologist Michael Howard Kabat, 50, owner of Neuropsychology Consult Services, has been charged with 12 felony counts of health insurance fraud in connection with...
SAN JOSE - A doctor and an unqualified medical interpreter were arraigned in early June on felony fraud charges for conspiring to bilk insurance companies out of thousands of dollars by billing for translation services that were illegal or non-existent....
FRESNO – On June 4, 2018, Fernando Alanis, 55, of Rio Grande City, Texas, was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for two counts of mail fraud related to a scheme to defraud the California Employment Development Department (EDD) of unemployment...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego doctor accused of 11 felony charges for allegedly prescribing controlled substances for his own use is scheduled to appear in San Diego Superior Court on June 8, 2018. Dr. Robert Scott Klein is charged with two counts of identity...
SACRAMENTO – Disabled parking spaces are reserved for those with handicapped license plates or disabled parking placards issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Placards are issued to a specific individual and cannot be used by another unless...
SACRAMENTO – On May 29, 2018, the Bureau of Automotive Repair announced that a formal accusation has been filed against an auto body shop in Merced for allegedly defrauding consumers and insurance companies of thousands of dollars. During an investigation...
