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 […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Local Police Department Calls On Special Agents For Undercover Work & Expertise
There is no question Department of Justice (DOJ) special agents are tough, thorough and tenacious in fighting crime, so it is no surprise to the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) that DOJ special agents went undercover and assisted the Stockton Police Department in taking down an internet gambling operation. In an investigation that began […]
When Special Agents Come Knocking….
Outside a Madera man’s home, special agents, armed with a search warrant, knocked on the door. Inside, a toilet flushed. Shortly after, 28 year old Jesus Santiago Mendoza was under arrest. Special agents working as part of the Madera County Narcotic Enforcement Team (MADNET) seized $3,000 worth of methamphetamine, a loaded handgun and $800 cash. […]
Disarming Felons & The Mentally Ill – More Help For Special Agents
When Stephen Lindley, chief of the Bureau of Firearms for the state Department of Justice (DOJ) testified at a legislative hearing at the Capitol this week, lawmakers not only listened, they took action. Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Senate President Pro Tem Darell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) introduced Senate Bill 140 which will help special agents […]
DOJ Special Agents Bring Down Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Theft, forgery, notary fraud and the recording of false documents. It is all laid out in a 57-count complaint that resulted in the arrests of three people accused in a mortgage fraud scheme that targeted homeowners in Northern California. “Cracking open a case like this is labor intensive, it takes time, focus and persistence,” said […]
Special Agents At Work: This Was A “Particularly Heinous Crime”
When people began to suspect a nurse was medicating patients in a skilled nursing facility in order to control their behavior and for her own convenience and the convenience of her staff, special agents with the California Department of Justice (DOJ) stepped in. What they uncovered sent Gwen Hughes, 59, the director of a Kern […]
