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CSLEA, CASI respond to Sacramento Bee editorial
More than just a Super Bowl pool was allegedly going on
In a Jan. 28 editorial, the Sacramento Bee wondered if Alcoholic Beverage Control investigators had nothing better to do with their time than bust Super Bowl pools at country clubs. The editorial even called on the Legislature to look at ABC as an excellent candidate for downsizing. More... |
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ABC investigator in thick of La Familia drug cartel takedown
-- Operation Tecate part of record-setting Project Coronado
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called Project Coronado the largest law enforcement action ever undertaken against a Mexican drug cartel, and at the end of the 44-month multiagency investigation last week, the take supported his claim. |
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Troublesome Los Angeles bar finally shut down
-- ABC investigators find extensive menu of criminality at the Grasshopper
"Oh, Grasshopper, could you be creepier?" So wrote one patron on the dinning and entertainment Web site Yelp.com about the Grasshopper bar on 5100 Fountain Avenue in Los Angeles. Yelp, which also lists the Grasshopper in its "Dive Bars" sub-category, also notes that the established is now CLOSED in capital letters. More... |
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CASI news release on furloughs gets wide media coverage
-- TV stations and newspapers from Chico to San Diego pick up story on threat to public safety
The incredible toll on public safety and on the state's economy that furlough Fridays are having on the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control is now known up and down California, thanks to a news release issued by CASI President Shelley Bishop and CSLEA President Alan Barcelona. More... |
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California's vice unit off on furlough Fridays
-- Absence of ABC investigators is best example of state's failure to protect its citizens
NEWS RELEASE
July 15, 2009 TGIFF--Thank God It's Furlough Friday is the new joy cry throughout the drug-dealing, prostitution, and fencing rings in alcohol-licensed establishments in California, as the only police force dedicated to keeping the state's nearly 80,000 businesses with liquor licenses is off that day, as it was last Friday, as it will be next Friday. More... |
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