DOJ loses six family members with passing of five special agents, annuitant last year

Date: 1/6/2008

April
Pat Dillon

Dillon started his law enforcement career with the California Highway Patrol in 1982, where he worked as a Traffic Officer until joining the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE) in 1994. During his tour of duty with BNE he served in a variety of assignments including the Special Operations Unit and the Violence Suppression Program. In 2001, Pat transferred to the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), where he was assigned to the Sexual Predator Apprehension Team. In 2002, Pat joined the California Antiterrorism Information Center (CATIC) and subsequently the Criminal Intelligence Bureau, where he served as a member of the Orange Field Office Antiterrorism Task Force and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). He passed away on April after a courageous battle against cancer.

May
Charlie McLaughlin

“He’d arrest someone for major narcotics violations and then my father would invite him to have dinner with our family before he went off to prison,” said son Tim McLaughlin to The Union newspaper of Grass Valley about his dad, Charles McLaughlin, who passed away on May 21 at his home in Nevada City, surrounded by his family. After leaving the San Francisco Police Department in 1960, McLaughlin joined the California Department of Justice, where he worked on narcotics and organized crime cases for the next 25 years.

August
Jim Silver

A former Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in San Francisco Jim Silver recently passed away four days after his 78th birthday from pancreatic cancer. Prior to joining California Department of Justice, Silver was a deputy with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department, an investigator with the state Department of Health, and an investigator with the Alameda County District Attorney’s office. He retired from DOJ in 1982.

October
Dalton Newland

“He had a great personality and added color to any meeting,” said retired Special Agent Bob Luca, “I remember hearing after a Special Agent meeting in Sacramento, after hours of senseless discussions about nothing, Dalton exclaiming, ‘Isn’t anyone going to talk about making a narcotics case?’ ” Newland was raised in Pomona, where be became an Eagle Scout. After serving in the Army Air Corp during WW II, he went to work for the Pasadena Police Department for seven years as a patrolman and detective, including stints in the vice and narcotics divisions. From there he spent a quarter century with the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement in the California Department of Justice, working in the Los Angeles and Fresno offices, before moving to the Orange office as Special Agent in Charge. He retired in 1982. Newland was 80 when he died.

November
Ray Hefley

Annuitant Ray Hefley passed died on November 18 in El Dorado County

December
Norman Frantzman

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