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An Alamo man who was previously found to have been running an illegal car detailing business out of his former home was recently busted by Livermore police for drug possession during a traffic stop for expired registration.
The Livermore Police Department announced its arrest of the 33-year-old Alamo man — who they said was found to be in possession of nearly 100 Adderall pills believed to be for sale — in an April 21 social media post.
As of Tuesday evening, no charges had yet been filed following the April 19 arrest and there was no update from the department.
He has no previous criminal history in Contra Costa or Alameda County court records, but has been the subject of a homeowners association lawsuit and a failed appeal to the county in Contra Costa Superior Court over an illegal car detailing business that he was found to have been operating from his home.
The court ruled in favor of the HOA late last year, which filed suit against the resident and his relative in 2024 for failing to comply with county code enforcement mandates the previous year, after allegedly running the business illegally since 2017. That decision came shortly after a separate ruling in September rejecting an appeal from the property owners over the county’s code enforcement notices.
The rulings put the two residents on the hook for more than $50,000 between payments awarded to the HOA and fees levied by the county that were upheld by the court’s rejection of the appeal. The ruling in the HOA lawsuit further forbade operating the business at the property, which went on the market last summer for the first time in more than 15 years.
According to both rulings, what was in question was not whether the business was being operated from the home in eastern Alamo but whether it was legally allowed to.
“The operation of the commercial business at the subject property resulted in the following conditions: the washing and detailing of client vehicles at the property; clients, customers, and/or their vehicles at the property; more than one business-related vehicle at the property; client vehicles occupying the required off-street parking; and increasing neighborhood traffic and increasing water use and runoff beyond normal residential use,” a county zoning administrator wrote in a 2023 notice to the property owners.
Although the resident contended that he was operating the business lawfully under a home business permit, and that it was only halted in order to prepare the property for sale, the court determined in November that the HOA was the prevailing party in that case “as it achieved the primary objective of this litigation—namely, to compel Defendants to cease operating their mobile detailing business.”
However, trouble found him yet again as last month’s arrest in Livermore appeared to point to a different illegal business endeavor, with “packaging consistent with sales” allegedly found alongside the pills during the search, according to LPD’s post.
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