Pinnacle Defends Salinas Employee Arrested During Wednesday Raid

The operator of a Salinas medical clinic raided following a yearlong investigation of alleged workers’ compensation fraud has come to the defense of an employee who was arrested on Wednesday.In a written statement released Thursday, Oregon-based Pinnacle Healthcare said that Eugene Guzman, a physician’s assistant at Pinnacle Urgent Care on Blanco Circle in Salinas, “has been unfairly implicated in a workers’ compensation abuse investigation that targets Smurfit-Stone Container.”Investigators with the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office and the Califor...