An 81-year-od Los Angeles doctor was arrested Wednesday, October 15, 2014, along with three other individuals, for allegedly running or participating in a widespread oxycodone prescription drug ring, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. This case is being investigated by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), the California Medical Board […]
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DOJ Agents Take Down Drug Organization in Contra Costa County
When California Department of Justice (DOJ) task forces set out to take down a transnational criminal organization in Contra Costa County they dubbed their investigation Operation Road Trip. Operation Road Trip is the merger of two long-term investigations in which agents discovered methamphetamine from Mexico was being delivered to the Nitro gang in Southern California. […]
ABC Awarded $1.5 Million Grant To Enforce Alcoholic Beverage Control Laws
It is always good news when law enforcement agencies receive money to help keep people safe and target those who break the law. That’s why the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) applauds the California Office of Traffic Safety for awarding a $1.5 million grant to the California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC). The grant will […]
CSLEA PAC Endorses Marc Steinorth & Jay Obernolte
SACRAMENTO- On October 16, 2014, the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Political Action Committee (PAC) endorsed two Republican candidates running for seats in the State Assembly. The two candidates are Marc Steinorth in Assembly District 40 and Jay Obernolte in Assembly District 33. Candidate Steinorth currently serves on the city council in […]
State Law Enforcement Officers Investigate Psychologist For Alleged Billing Fraud
On October 7, 2014, Investigators with the California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) and the California Department of Insurance (CDI), along with the Nevada County District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Department of Labor, served a search warrant in connection with a Grass Valley psychologist suspected of Workers Compensation billing fraud. “There is no shortage […]
ABC Agents Tag Watsonville Restaurant with Notice of Suspension
In no way, shape or form should a restaurant or any other alcoholic beverage establishment be selling or serving alcoholic beverages to people under the age of 21, so when California Alcoholic Beverage Control agents conducted an inspection at the El Popo Restaurant on Freedom Boulevard in Watsonville on October 18, 2013 and found two […]
ABC Suspends the License of Bombays in Redding
The suspension is the result of an ABC “Target Responsibility for Alcohol-Connected Emergencies” (TRACE) investigation in which ABC agents established that on May 28, 2014, a Bombays’ employee served alcohol to two of three minors who were allowed into the bar One of those minors later stabbed someone after leaving the bar. The stabbing occurred […]
CSLEA Membership Event At Patton
The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) held a membership event at Patton State Hospital on September 30, 2014 in which hospital police officers, communications operators, and investigators came together during their lunch breaks to converse with HPAC board members, CSLEA Site Reps and CSLEA Supervising Legal Counsel Dave De La Riva. “We are always […]
Undercover Stings in Fresno & San Bernardino County
Despite widespread publicity that state investigators are on the prowl for people who are bidding on home improvement jobs that are bigger than they are, unlicensed contractors continue to show up at undercover stings hoping to walk away with a job. Instead, they walk away in handcuffs. “The Contractors State License Board (CSLB) hasn’t kept […]
ABC Agents – The Unusual Busts of September
It is not every day that California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents bust into a unit at a business park and discover a large hash-oil manufacturing operation. That’s what they found on September 5, 2014, when they teamed up with officers from the Cotati and Rhonert Park police departments and detectives from the Sonoma County […]
