TRACY – On September 25, 2020, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) announced that ABC agents arrested a bartender following a Target Responsibility for Alcohol Connected Emergencies (TRACE) investigation that started back on...
SAN DIEGO – On September 24, 2020, Melissa Alvarez Torres and Jose Luis Olmos Hernandez, a Chula Vista couple who operated what they claimed to be a private insurance sales company, made their first appearances in federal court on charges they conspired...
RIVERSIDE COUNTY - On September 23, 2020, personnel from more than a dozen agencies assisted the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department to serve 38 marijuana cultivation related search warrants in the unincorporated county areas of Anza and Aguanga. During...
MONTEREY – On September 23, 2020, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announce that gang members Sergio Rodriguez and Francisco Garcia were sentenced to multiple life sentences at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation....
LOS ANGELES – During the week of September 14, 200, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control’s (BCC) Cannabis Enforcement Unit, served two search warrants, targeting the unlicensed cultivating and distributing of cannabis. In one case, with the assistance...
REDDING- On September 22, 2020, Lance Steven Pasalich, 23, was arraigned on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and grand theft after allegedly defrauding his insurer to receive more than $8,600 in disability payments he was not entitled to receive....
FRESNO – On September 21, 2020, Eduardo Medina Ruelas, 46, of Sanger, was arraigned on multiple counts of felony insurance fraud after allegedly defrauding his employer and RISICO Claims Management Co. to collect $38,000 in workers’ compensation insurance...
CHICO- On September 18, 2020, a Butte County jury found Ramsey said Ishmael Smith, 35, a transient in Chico at the time, guilty of raping a woman in a Chico alleyway in March of 2019. Smith, attacked the victim, a then 25-year-old woman, as she was walking...
SONOMA COUNTY – On September 18, 2020, California State Parks announced that State Park peace officers uncovered multiple illegal cannabis cultivation operations during this summer months at Robert Louis Stevenson and Sugarloaf Ridge state parks in Sonoma...
LOS ANGELES – On September 17, 2020, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced that his Environmental Justice Unit has charged 45 people for violations ranging from fishing without a license to taking mussels, turban snails, sea urchins and other...
MADERA COUNTY - When you work in the world of emergency services, you know better than to ask, “what’s next?” But BJ Jones admits that very question crossed his mind on September 10, 2020 while he was working at the Creek Fire Incident Command Center...
OAKLAND – On September 14, 2020, numerous district attorneys in California announced Kelly-Moore Paint Company (Kelly-Moore) is ordered to pay $1.43 million as part of a settlement of a civil enforcement prosecution. The judgment resolves allegations...
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY – On September 10, 2020, Selina Singh, 57, and Kabir Singh, 30, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and related felonies. The pleas were entered in Contra Costa County Superior Court. Both defendants return to court...
MARTINEZ - On September 14, 2020, Kimberly Beatrice Dixon, 52, of Pittsburg was charged by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office for a violation of the Contra Costa County Health Officer Order related to COVID-19. In addition, Dixon was...
RESEDA – On September 8, 2020, the Bureau of Cannabis Control’s Cannabis Enforcement Unit, with the assistance of the Los Angeles Police Department and California Department of Food and Agriculture, served a search warrant on an unlicensed cannabis delivery...
ROSAMOND – On September 9, 2020, investigators from the California Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) served two search warrant as part of their investigation into the suspected illegal cannabis operation at the Green Empire dispensary in Rosemont. The...
