California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents spent four months, undercover, investigating illegal activity at a market in Stockton and what they found sent the store owner to prison and the store lost its license to sell liquor. “Store owners should take notice, if community members suspect illegal activity at a store in their neighborhood, our […]
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El Dorado County Sting Nets 10
In an effort to protect consumers, level the playing field for licensed contractors and to help curb the underground economy, our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are investigators with the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) go undercover and arrest unlicensed contractors. Last week’s sting in El Dorado County resulted in 10 arrests. […]
San Fernando Valley Doctor Sentenced To Prison In $3 Million Medicare Fraud Case
Congratulations to our California Department of Justice special agents in the Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud & Elder Abuse. Their expertise in the investigation of a San Fernando Valley doctor has resulted in a 3-1/2 year prison sentence and an order to pay $3,184,000 in restitution. “This doctor, through his cosmetic health care clinic, submitted to […]
SB 140 The Call For More Special Agents Moves Closer To Governor’s Desk
Senate Bill 140, which calls for more California Department of Justice (DOJ) special agents to take on the backlog of people on the armed prohibited persons list was passed by the State Assembly with overwhelming support, today. “The DOJ wants to go after these guys, they need the money to do it,” said Assemblyman Bob […]
Water Watch: No Signs Of Oil Sheen
Our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association members in the California Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) have been monitoring the possibility of an oil spill near Big Sur. OSPR was called in Saturday, April 13, after a tugboat towing a crane barge sank. The Coast Guard rescued four people floating in a life raft. […]
Upfront & Center At The California Democratic Convention with CSLEA
The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Political Action Committee attended the California Democratic Convention in Sacramento, April 12-14, 2013, meeting with political leaders, state lawmakers and members of Congress. “It’s vital to our CSLEA members that we are there,” said CSLEA President Alan Barcelona. “It’s so very important that we are in the same […]
17-Plus Years – One Of The Largest Marijuana Traffickers In Northern California Sentenced
On Monday, April 15, 2013, a Fresno man was sentenced to 17 and a-half years in prison for running a massive marijuana operation. Uriel Ochoa-Espindola, 44, and his ring of managers grew tens of thousands of marijuana plants in El Dorado, Tehama and Placer counties and then used commercial truckers to ship hundreds of pounds […]
DMV Investigators Bust Counterfeit I-D Mill
When the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) got a tip that someone was making phony temporary California driver licenses and selling them, our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are DMV investigators went to work. Four months later, they arrested two people for allegedly making counterfeit temporary operating permits and temporary driver […]
CAL FIRE – 911 What’s Your Emergency?
April 14th-20th is National Public Safety Communicators Week and what better time to recognize our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are CAL FIRE communications operators? These men and women answer 911 emergency calls for help as do our CSLEA members who are CHP public safety dispatchers. Our CAL FIRE communications operators are […]
More Than Just Drinks – ABC Agents Find Drugs For Sale At Merced Bar
Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents spent several months investigating suspected drug activity inside Carolyn’s bar in Merced and on Thursday, shut it down. According to an ABC press release, the license of Carolyn’s will be indefinitely suspended because the bar allowed a bartender and patrons to sell and use illegal drugs on the premises. The […]
