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Details Written by FBI San Diego, California - Derick Jonathan Cameron of Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to wire fraud, admitting that while employed as the Financial Controller for San Diego-based RAL Investment Corporation, he embezzled more than $400,000.  In a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jill L. Burkhardt, Cameron admitted he abused his access to the company’s accounting software and issued more than 200 unauthorized checks to himself using the electronic signature of the company’s CFO and deposited them into his person...

Updated: 9:42 PM PDT July 13, 2021 CHULA VISTA, Calif. — A Chula Vista couple admitted in federal court Monday to conspiring to defraud hundreds of pregnant Mexican nationals and causing over a million dollars in losses to California's Medi-Cal health program. Melissa Alvarez Torres, 33, and Jose Luis Olmos Hernandez, 36, advertised their insurance company through Facebook under the name "Seguros Americanos Embarazo (American Pregnancy Insurance)." Alvarez and Olmos falsely claimed that their insurance would allow these pregnant women to legally give birth in the United Stat...

Federal Jury Finds Man Guilty of Possessing Molotov Cocktails at La Mesa Protest Details Written by IVN San Diego, California - After a two-day jury trial, Zachary Alexander Karas of San Diego was found guilty of possessing incendiary devices known as Molotov cocktails at a protest that began on May 30, 2020 in La Mesa. After the jury returned a guilty verdict, Chief District Judge Dana M. Sabraw remanded Karas into custody. Sentencing is set for August 13, 2021, at 9 a.m. before Chief Judge Sabraw. “No one should bring a Molotov cocktail to disrupt a protest,”...

Details Written by IVN Calexico, California - Former Calexico City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem David Romero, along with Bruno Suarez-Soto, a former commissioner on the city’s Economic Development and Financial Advisory Commission, were each sentenced to two years in prison today for taking bribes in exchange for “guaranteeing” a City permit for a cannabis business. In pronouncing sentence, U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo observed that public officials should not “take positions of power to line their own pockets” and that the pair’s conduct “ta...

CALEXICO — Former Calexico City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem David Romero and Bruno Suarez-Soto, a former commissioner on the city’s Economic Development and Financial Advisory Commission, were each sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for taking bribes in exchange for guaranteeing a city permit for a cannabis business. In announcing the sentences, U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo said public officials should not take positions of power to line their own pockets and that the pair’s conduct “taints how we hope to believe democracy works.” Romero. 37, and ...