The California Highway Patrol captain arrested last week on suspicion of workers' compensation fraud was the commander in charge of the fatal April 2023 Mahaney Park shootout in Roseville , three officers who worked under him at the time of the shootout confirmed to CBS Sacramento. We are withholding the names of the three officers because they are not authorized to speak on the record.

That captain was identified as Matthew Stover, a 22-year CHP veteran, who approved the decision to serve the high-risk search warrant to an armed suspect, Eric Abril, at a busy park during spring break, our sources said. That plan resulted in a deadly shootout that injured an officer and killed James MacEgan, who was taken hostage with his wife by the suspect.

On Tuesday, a judge ruled Patty Ma

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