Two Modesto brothers, owners of several car dealerships in Stanislaus and Merced Counties, are heading to prison for more than four years each as a result of their conviction for conspiring to commit bank fraud. “These men, along with several of their employees falsified the information of potential car buyers in order for the potential […]
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DMV Investigators Bust Unlicensed Car Dealer Ring
Fresno – Three men with the same last name are now staying under the same roof, the Fresno County jail, after allegedly operating an unlicensed car dealer ring. On June 18, 2013, Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) investigators, along with Fresno police, arrested Rami Alrawashdeh, 20, and Murad Alrawashdeh 24. They later arrested Atef Alrawashdeh, 30. […]
Madera Woman Sentenced To Prison In Driver License Scheme
Rosemary Fierros, 47, of Madera, was sentenced Monday, May 20, 2013 to four years in prison for her role in a scheme to issue California driver licenses to people who either did not take a written or behind-the-wheel test or failed to pass those tests. Thirteen people in connection with the scheme have been convicted. […]
DMV Investigators Undercover in Oxnard
When Oxnard police received complaints from downtown business owners about shady and disruptive activity taking place, they looked into the matter and called upon investigators from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for help. In a six week period, operating undercover, Oxnard police and DMV investigators discovered two men were setting up shop and illegally […]
License Plate Fraud: Ex-City Employee Admits To Forgery
When Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) investigators were tipped off something was not right with the fee-exempt government license plates on a car being driven erratically in Riverside County, they went to work and uncovered 17 vehicles registered to a fictitious fire district. The common denominator? Canyon Lake ex-city employee Patrick Joseph Colleary. Colleary was […]
DMV Employee Busted For Stealing Credit Cards
When Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies went to investigators at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and said, ‘Help us, we have a problem,’ those investigators went to work. The problem? Reports from two people that their credit cards had been stolen and used, something they noticed shortly after they had conducted business at the DMV […]
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 […]
DMV Licensing Scheme: 13 Convicted, Let The Sentencing Begin
A Madera man was sentenced to prison this week for his role in a driver license scheme to issue California driver licenses to people who either did not take a written or behind-the-wheel test or failed to pass those tests. United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Victor Vasquez, 36, to 18 months in […]
State Investigators See Pension Abuse Case Through To Sentencing
Our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association(CSLEA) members who are investigators with CalPERS were in a Sacramento courtroom today to witness a judge sentence a former state worker in a pension abuse case that dates back to 2008. Lisa Trevino-Angelo, 41, a former part-time personnel specialist at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) was sentenced to […]
DMV Investigators Crack Driver’s License Scheme
From investigation to incarceration, our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are investigators with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) know how to get the job done. Last week a Fresno man, Yadwinder Singh, 50, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a driver’s license scheme to issue […]
