On July 29th, 2020
The California Association of Criminal Investigators is currently accepting applications for scholarships that will be awarded to qualified members, or their immediate family members, seeking higher education. The 2020 CACI Scholarship Program is awarding five (5) $2,000 scholarships. If you would like to submit an application, download the form below and mail it to: California […]
On July 29th, 2020
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 $500,000. Milhomem is the owner of Viking Pavers, Inc., a construction company […]
On July 28th, 2020
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 warrant on an unlicensed distributor/manufacturer located in Covina. This location was a BHO lab in the […]
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 a more than $7 million Ponzi scheme that scammed 49 victims—31 of whom […]
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 in counterfeit apparel. Each defendant, the owners and operators of P.L.A.C.T. BROS., LLC, pled guilty to multiple felonies for […]
On July 8th, 2020
LOS ANGELES – On July 7, 2020, law enforcement officers arrested eight people named in a federal grand jury indictment charging them with creating nonexistent businesses and then claiming more than $1.1 million in unemployment benefits for purported employees of those fake businesses. The nine-count indictment alleges a three-year conspiracy to cheat the state’s unemployment insurance […]
