A statewide crackdown by California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are investigators with the Contractors State License Board targeted unlicensed contractors and resulted in 78 arrests. “Some of the people arrested are people you don’t want to have in your home,” said CSLEA President Alan Barcelona. “A sex offender, a convicted rapist, guys […]
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Mortuary Mix-Up: Family Says Goodbye To The Wrong Woman
A Southern California family and friends of 82-year-old Darlene Davidson prayed over the body of the wrong woman as they said goodbye and buried the body of someone who was not Davidson. According to published reports, during a viewing, Davidson’s family told workers at Simpson Family Mortuary in Inglewood that Davidson did not look like […]
DOJ Special Agents Bust $4 Million International Stolen Smart Phone Ring
A Sacramento couple, arrested and charged, is accused of buying hundreds of stolen smartphones from across the nation and reselling them in Hong Kong to rake in nearly $4 million dollars in less than a year. The couple’s alleged illegal activity was uncovered by our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are special […]
ABC Agents: A Different Approach
California Alcoholic Beverage Control agents took a different approach to combating underage drinking in Redlands last week. Often ABC agents will target clerks, bartenders and patrons who sell or provide alcohol to minors, but their operation Tuesday, March 5, was all about checking the identifications of patrons at the Vault bar. ABC agents worked with […]
Special Agents Target Bay Area Gang Violence
When California Department of Justice (DOJ) special agents were called upon to help rid the city of Oakland of gang violence, they did not disappoint. They worked for months to track down, keep tabs on and ultimately arrest dozens of suspected gang members accused of crimes ranging from pimping to attempted murder. The special agents, […]
State Investigation: L-A Doctor Arrested For Sexual Battery
No one wants a doctor acting inappropriately or against the law when he is examining a patient and that is where our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are investigators with the Medical Board of California step in. Investigators with the Board’s Operation Safe Medicine, along with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) […]
State Investigators: Bay Area Childcare Teachers Investigated
Investigators with the state Department of Social Services (DSS) are looking into two separate cases where teachers allegedly endangered children. DSS has forbidden a teacher at Centerpointe Christian Preschool in Pleasanton from working at the center after complaints she tied-up a toddler who refused to take a nap. The teacher has not been arrested and […]
Case Investigated By Special Agent: Former Nurse Ordered To Stand Trial
A former nurse accused of sexual assaulting patients who were bedridden has been ordered by a judge to stand trial. On Thursday, March 7, 2013, a Superior Court judge ruled there is enough evidence to warrant a trial in the case against Paul Robert Simon, 53. Simon worked as a nurse at Rancho Springs Medical […]
Department of Social Services Investigators: Keeping Watch Over Child Daycare Centers
Last week the owner of a former daycare facility in San Rafael and two employees were in court in connection with the death of a four-month-old boy last October. While the infant’s cause of death is listed as accidental due to suffocation from bedding material, Department of Social Services (DSS) investigators determined there was a […]
Bail Bondsman Pleads Guilty to Drug & Firearms Crimes
Our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are special agents in the California Department of Justice (DOJ) assisted with a drug and firearms bust that has now resulted in eight convictions. The United States Attorney’s Office announced Manuel Vasquez, 30, a Fresno bail bondsman, pleaded guilty Monday, March 4, 2013, to his role […]
