Investigators with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) joined forces with local and federal law enforcement agencies to take down a ring of drug dealers in San Diego in an investigation dubbed “Operation Purple Haze.” “Operation Purple Haze” targeted a group of 19 to 24-year-olds suspected of forging and filling prescriptions that were […]
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DTSC Investigators At Work: Merced County Plating Shop Operators Plead To Criminal Charges
On August 20, 2014, the Department of Toxic Substances Control’s (DTSC) Office of Criminal Investigations announced that two Merced County plating shop operators pleaded no contest to criminal charges related to the release and abandonment of hazardous waste. The pleas were entered back in June: June 17, 2014 – Bonnie Rita Cardenas pleaded no contest […]
In Memory of DLSE Investigator Lee Pearson
“He was a leader and my best friend,” – Frank Capetillo, President, California Association of Criminal Investigators (CACI) Family, friends and colleagues are mourning the loss of Senior Special Investigator Lee Pearson, 44, of Temecula, who died February 17, 2014. Pearson, a member of the California Association of Criminal Investigators (CACI) and the California Statewide […]
Operation Safe Medicine: Our CSLEA Members At Work
Phony doctors, bad medical procedures, risky treatments. Nobody wants that kind of experience but it happens right here in the state of California. Need proof? Just ask our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are investigators with the state medical board’s Operation Safe Medicine unit. Operation Safe Medicine investigators handed prosecutors 61 cases […]
