Fernando Alvarado and Kevyn Arquieta were convicted after receiving roughly $23,000 total from fraudulent unemployment claims. Author: Samantha Solomon (ABC10) Updated: 12:16 PM PDT April 26, 2021 PLACER COUNTY, Calif. — The first of several unemployment benefits fraud cases in Placer County was wrapped up with two convictions, the county's district attorney's office said in a Facebook post on Monday. Fernando Alvarado, 41 and Kevyn Arquieta, 25, were each convicted of unemployment insurance fraud. The Placer County District Attorney's Office said both defendants were in custody in the Placer County Jail for other, undisclosed felony offenses when they filed the false unemployment claims with the state's Employment Development Department [EDD].