Calif. officials combat restaurant-inspection scam

ROSEVILLE Calif. Police here are searching for a 48-year-old man known as "Rick" who is suspected of defrauding at least two Roseville restaurant operators while posing as a state inspector for the California Department of Industrial Relations' Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA.

Raymond Richard Whitall II is thought to have committed similar scams elsewhere in Southern California, targeting small, independently owned restaurants. In