TEHAMA COUNTY – On January 30, 2017, criminalists with the California Department of Justice were called upon to help Tehama County Sheriff’s investigators with a double homicide involving a possible robbery and two crime scenes. According to a Tehama County Sheriff’s press release, it appears two to three men, armed with at least one weapon, […]
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DOJ Senior Criminalist Testifies in Preliminary Trial Involving UCSB Rape Case
SANTA BARBARA- A man accused of raping and beating a fellow student at UC Santa Barbara in February 2014, will face trial on charges of forcible rape, torture and great bodily injury. The decision that there was enough evidence to try Daniel Chen, 21, was made by Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Pauline Maxwell on […]
Coffee Shop Rapist Sentenced To 65 Years
SANTA CRUZ – By all accounts it was a horrific attack against a young barista opening up a coffee shop early one morning in 2008. The man who held a knife to her throat, raped, robbed and locked her inside a storage refrigerator, went about his life for three years before he was identified as […]
Davis And Fresno Police Call DOJ Crime Scene Investigators
When Davis Police found the bodies of an elderly couple killed in their home Sunday, April 14, 2013, they called in our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are specialized crime scene investigators for the California Department of Justice (DOJ). Fresno Police also requested the expertise of DOJ criminalists on Tuesday, April 16, […]
DOJ Criminalists Solve Oakland Museum Artifact Theft
It is an intriguing story of “who done it?” and our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are criminalists in the Department of Justice (DOJ) get overwhelming kudos for solving an Oakland Museum mystery. “Our criminalists in the lab are like officers with handcuffs out in the field,” said CSLEA President Alan Barcelona. […]
Jury Calls For Death Penalty
A Sacramento jury handed down a death penalty verdict for convicted killer Richard Hirschfield last week. The jury foreman said it was the concrete DNA evidence that proved Hirschfield’s guilt in the murder of two UC Davis students 32 years ago. CSLEA member and Department of Justice (DOJ) criminalist Steven Myers testified in the trial […]
