AB 109 Task Force Makes 40 Arrests in Multi-City Sweep

From the Pomona Police Department
The holiday season typically brings an increase in a variety of crimes. Many of those crimes are committed by repeat offenders who realize that citizens will tend to have more money and property with them during the holiday season. In addition, criminals who are on probation or parole, or have absconded, tend to return home for the holidays to be with their families.

On December 9, 2013, the San Gabriel Valley East AB109 Task Force (operated out of the Pomona Police Department) conducted a series of one-day one-city operations titled “Home for the Holidays”.

The goal of the operation was to conduct probation and parole compliance checks on persons being supervised by the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s Chief of Police Regional Support Unit (COPRS), State Parole (parolees) and sex registrants (Penal Code 290).

The operation resulted in the following:

-215 parole/probation compliance checks conducted.
-40 arrests consisting of 12 AB109 violations, 17 parole violations, 7 sex offender violations and 4 other arrest for felony or misdemeanor warrants.
-15 firearms seized/confiscated.
-Narcotics and narcotic paraphernalia seized as evidence.

The San Gabriel Valley East AB109 Task Force is a multi-agency team comprised of officers from seven cities including the LA County Probation Department. Their primary responsibility is to conduct compliance checks on those individuals who have been released from prison under AB109 to ensure that they are complying with their terms of release. The Task Force is responsible for enforcement in the cities of Azusa, Baldwin Park, Claremont, Covina, Glendora, Irwindale, Pomona, La Verne, West Covina and Whittier. Agents from the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) Parole Division and the Department of Children and Family Services Multi- Agency Response Team (MART) also assisted with the two week operation.