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Office Manager Convicted of 51 Felony Counts in Massive Patient Referral Scam

Service Members Scammed out of $4.8 Million

July 12, 2019

More than 100 active duty Navy service members, most of them enlisted sailors, were targets of a scam by a company known as Go Navy Tax Services that sold over 4,700 expensive, unnecessary life insurance policies under the guise of tax preparation services. To pay the premiums on the policies, the defendants fraudulently gained entry […]

How to Recognize Animal Cruelty

June 24, 2019

On March 1, a dog was found abandoned in Escondido, weighing less than 20 pounds and extremely dehydrated with low temperature; he also had pressure sores on his hips and knees. The dog, who was named Remington, recovered thanks to the San Diego Humane Society’s veterinary team. Because of his critical condition, this is a […]

$5 Million Fraud Ring Busted

June 20, 2019

When you think of auto theft, you might think of vehicles being hot-wired and stolen off the street, brought into ‘chop shops’ and sold for parts. But beginning in December 2017, investigators with the San Diego Regional Auto Theft Task Force (RATT) began looking into a massive auto theft scheme of a different kind. The investigation […]