OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR), and San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar today secured a decision by the San Joaquin County Superior Court against Alpine Helicopter Service, Inc. (Alpine) and several of its employee pilots. In 2020, the California Department of Justice and DPR filed a
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Angela Mancuso had just dropped off her kids at Glenwood Elementary School when she started to smell something funky. She was driving back to her home just a mile away in Stockton, Calif., and decided to roll down her window for some fresh air.
She noticed too late that a helicopter applying pesticide to a nearby walnut grove that Tuesday morning in September 2016 kept flying back and forth across the road, spraying continuously.