If you have any question that young people under the age of 21 can walk into a store and purchase alcohol, just look at the undercover operations in Contra Costa County last month. The California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) and Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff conducted three decoy operations at businesses that sell […]
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They Can Walk Away With Your Cash In Hand
Would you hand over $7,000 as a down payment to a worker who, based on his word alone, promised to take on your home improvement project? That’s what one unlicensed contractor requested from our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are investigators working undercover at the Contractors State License Board CSLB. The investigators […]
Senate Votes For Additional Special Agents To Tackle Armed And Prohibited Persons Backlog
SACRAMENTO – Senate Bill 140, which calls for more California Department of Justice (DOJ) special agents to tackle the enormous backlog of armed prohibited people in California, passed the Senate on a 31 to 0 vote, today. “This is great news for our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are special agents in […]
Disarming Felons & The Mentally Ill – Senate Committee Unanimously Passes SB 140
SACRAMENTO- Senate Bill 140, which calls for more California Department of Justice (DOJ) special agents to take on the enormous and growing backlog of armed prohibited people in California, unanimously passed the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee yesterday. “The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) fully supports SB 140. I am encouraged by the […]
Busting Those Who Give Or Sell Booze To The Under-21 Set
Rarely a week goes by without a headline that states a store clerk, bartender or patron has been busted for selling or providing alcohol to someone under the age of 21. Our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association(CSLEA) members who are agents with the California Alcoholic Beverage Control conduct operations using minors as decoys on a […]
Special Agents: Operation “Red Bandits”
SACRAMENTO – California Department of Justice (DOJ) special agents, teamed with CHP and local law enforcement officers, busted 13 gang members suspected in a three-month crime spree in the Sacramento region. “Eighty home burglaries, 51 vehicle burglaries, that’s like a home burglary every day and a vehicle burglary every other day,” said Alan Barcelona, president […]
Special Agents At Work: Couple Plead Guilty In $16.6 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are special agents in the California Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse helped crack a $16.6 million Medicare Fraud case that resulted in the arrest of two people who, this week, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare. Rajinder Singh Paul, […]
“Fight Against Forbidden Firearms”
Want to see our DOJ special agents on the job? Ride along with them via this KCRA report! See what they encounter as they “fight against forbidden firearms.” KCRA Report “Our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are special agents with the Department of Justice (DOJ) Firearms Bureau have been the focus of […]
ABC Agents: Drug Paraphernalia & Gambling at Santa Clara Liquor Store
When residents complained to police about a liquor store in Santa Clara, our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are agents with Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) went to work. On Friday, February 15, 2013, ABC agents posted a 30-day suspension notice at Hana’s Bottle Shop. Agents went in undercover during a two month […]
Why Special Agents Are “Special”
Sacramento Businessman Sentenced To Decades In Prison After Preying On Children If one special agent with the California Department of Justice (DOJ) could feel the symbolic hugs from parents all around the world, it would be the special agent in DOJ’s eCrimes unit who conducted the forensics on a sexual predator’s computer and provided expert […]