On October 11th, 2017
SACRAMENTO – On October 10, 2017, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra held an awards ceremony at the Courtyard Marriott Midtown, to thank Department of Justice employees for their excellent work and outstanding accomplishments. Among those awarded were California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) and California Association of Law Enforcement Employees (CALEE) Members Reva Headley, […]
On July 22nd, 2016
RIVERSIDE - Those interested in the role that crime labs, and those who work in them, play in solving crimes, finding suspects, and identifying victims got a chance to hear from California Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminalist Melanie Velasco on Thursday, July 20, 2016. Velasco, a member of the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) […]
On May 16th, 2016
RICHMOND- While it's not a celebration, it certainly is a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment - having identified a woman whose murdered body was found in Los Angeles in 1969, and for 47 years was only known as Jane Doe 59. Thanks to work over the years by California Department of Justice criminalists, Jane Doe […]
On May 5th, 2016
STOCKTON - When the daughter of an 84-year-old Stockton murder victim who was raped and killed inside her own home, stood before television news cameras to express how relieved she was that her mother's suspected killer had finally been identified and arrested four years after the crime, California Department of Justice (DOJ) criminalists in the […]
On May 5th, 2016
LOS ANGELES – On May 5, 2016, a jury in Los Angeles returned guilty verdicts in the trial of Lonnie Franklin Jr., 63, aka the Grim Sleeper serial killer. The former mechanic is now convicted of killing nine women and a 15-year-old girl during a 22-year period from 1985 to 2007. Most of the victims […]
RIPON - On April 15, 2016, seven Association of Criminalists-Department of Justice (AC-DOJ) board members met in Ripon for their first quarterly meeting in 2016. "Due to the distances involved and everybody's busy schedules, we don't often get to meet physically as a board," said AC-DOJ President John Miller. "It was great to see everybody […]
