Dylan Hudson, 26, of Placerville pleaded guilty last week to drug charges that could put him behind bars for five to 40 years. According to court documents, Hudson was the lead man in a three-state marijuana trafficking case that Department of Justice (DOJ) special agents, along with local and federal investigators, followed from California to […]
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Picking Up Where Natural Disasters Leave Off
Some would joke that California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) member Bob Butchart gets around. After all, he has rolled up his sleeves with Irene, he has had “boots on the ground” with Katrina and he has recently returned from a whirlwind encounter with Sandy. These were not wild gals, they were wild gales. Hurricanes […]
CSLB Investigators: Lengthy Investigation Leads To Arrest
It is a multi-million dollar case involving fraud, grand theft and diversion of funds and a Santa Cruz County woman is at the center of it. “Our CSLEA members who investigate crimes for the Contractors State License Board are like guardian angels watching over consumers as the unscrupulous attempt their devil-like deeds,” said CSLEA President […]
CDI Investigators: San Mateo Businesswoman Sentenced
When an insurance company suspected the owner of Genesis Building Services, a San Mateo pest and janitorial services company, was under-reporting her payroll to the tune of $10 million dollars, that insurance company went straight to our CSLEA members who are investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI). As a result of their investigation, […]
Human Trafficking: DOJ Special Agents Arrest Five
They stood in a caged area of a Sacramento courtroom dressed in orange prison garb, four men and one woman, all charged with conspiracy of pimping in what investigators call an international sex or human trafficking ring. All five suspects were arrested by special agents in the Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Investigations. “This […]
Undercover ABC Agents Make Narcotics Bust
For two months agents with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) went undercover inside the Alameda Strip Club in Los Angeles and what they found resulted in the arrests of three people, including a club employee. Agents, along with LAPD officers, arrested one employee and two patrons for selling and/or possessing cocaine. During the […]
CHP Dispatchers: Precious Seconds Spent On Pranks
Seconds counts. We all know lives are saved and lives are lost in a very few precious seconds. So why do some pranksters take pride and pleasure in detracting emergency dispatchers from what could be the next dire emergency by phoning in bogus crimes in-progress and fictitious freeway crash sites? “When someone calls in a […]
DOJ Special Agents At Work: Guilty Plea In Investment Scam
Another “job well done” by our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are special agents with the Department of Justice for their work in bringing to justice, investment scam suspect Donald Dunakin. Dunakin , 42, pleaded guilty to three counts of investor fraud in Sacramento Superior Court last week. He was booked into […]
Spotlight On Special Agents And The Effort To Seize Illegally Owned Guns
In newspaper headlines, reported on the radio, featured in television newscasts – congratulations to our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are special agents in the Department of Justice (DOJ) Firearms Bureau for showing the nation how taking guns from the hands of convicted felons and the mentally ill can help to save […]
When Minors Drink & Crash —- ABC Agents Step In
CHP officers in the Santa Cruz area are reporting a spike in underage DUI arrests over the Super Bowl weekend and those who supplied booze to those young drivers could find themselves in some big trouble. One of those underage drivers slammed his car into a home near Watsonville. His girlfriend and his two toddlers, […]
