A Sheriff's Department official was found last night passed out in her car in the middle of the Foothill Freeway with a blood alcohol level of .20, which is over twice the legal limit. City News Service reports that Natalie Salazar was discovered after police received a number of calls reporting a vehicle stopped in the middle lane of the highway. more ›

This week at Miramonte Elementary kicked off with the arrest of Mark Berndt for allegedly feeding semen to his students, and it is ending with the arrest of another male teacher accused of lewd conduct on his students. more ›

More details are emerging about the man fatally shot by deputies last night in Lancaster. The sheriff's department said that the man was unarmed and that there was a warrant out for his arrest. more ›

Deputies fatally shot a man who tried to flee from them during a bicycle traffic stop in Lancaster last night. Christian Cobian, 26, was killed last night just before 11 pm when deputies tried to stop him for committing a traffic violation. more ›

A video captures a sheriff's deputy punching out a woman on a bus in Bellflower. The video shows the woman yelling at deputies, but she doesn't seem to be violent. One of the deputies punches her in the face, causing her to topple over. more ›

Shervin Lalezary, the unassuming Beverly Hills lawyer (it turns out that's not an oxymoron), is getting his moment in the spotlight after nabbing the Hollywood arson suspect. more ›

A man has brought a lawsuit against the Sheriff's department over a beating that was caught on tape by a parking lot security camera last April. His attorney said he called deputies to the scene to help him deal with his father. The security footage shows that the situation quickly escalated. more ›

Occupy Los Angeles, whose encampment on City Hall lawn was raided on Tuesday night, marched from Pershing Square down Broadway and through downtown to the jail at the Twin Towers Correctional facility. more ›

The city council of Lancaster just approved a program that will allow a Cessna to weave through the airspace of Antelope Valley for 10 hours a day while a camera rolls. The film will be sent to the sheriff's station on the ground and reviewed in real-time for people doing hilarious shit in the privacy of their own backyards crime, according to The Los Angeles Daily News. more ›

When Sheriff Lee Baca said he didn't know jailer brutality was a serious problem, this didn't sit well with some critics. If sheriff's command staff kept Baca in the dark, why weren't their heads rolling now? And now Los Angeles Times has obtained clear evidence that Baca's command staff knew jailer brutality was a problem, but the department is still saying that Baca never got the memo — literally. more ›

Funeral services are being held this morning for 19-year-old Cesar Rodriguez, a volunteer with the L.A. County Sheriff Department's Explorer program, reports the Daily News. Rodriguez was standing outside of a residence in Whittier in the early morning hours of August 28 with a friend when a gray Scion pulled up and the driver fired a handgun several times at the two young men. Both Rodriguez and his friend, 24-year-old Larry Villegas, died at the scene. more ›

A Burbank neighborhood was evacuated late yesterday afternoon when deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's bomb squad were on hand to remove "what appears to have been an old military explosive" from inside a home, according to LA Now. Residents of the home on the 1100 block of Rose Street "found the heavy metal object" in the attic, which they thought belonged to the previous occupant, who neighbors say "was related to a collector of military items." No other military objects were found in the home, and the bomb squad safely removed the unexploded device. more ›

Sheriff's deputies served a search warrant on a home on the 26500 block of Pegasus Way which is occupied by a family of three, including "a father, a mother and their 24-year-old son." As part of the search, authorities seized "a green Mitsubishi SUV," which may be the vehicle witnesses reported as the green SUV they saw near the area where Lopez was abducted as she walked home from her summer school classes at Moreno Valley High School in July. more ›

New numbers released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department indicate that the region they patrol is experiencing a continuing downward decline in criminal homicides, resulting in the lowest homicide rate since 1975. more ›

After public outcry about safety concerns on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has added a motorcycle deputy to patrol the area, reports the Santa Monica Daily Press. more ›

James Neal was a NASCAR track racer in the 1980s, but he never won a national race. But on Monday night in Orange County, Neal drove himself right into the spotlight, and the hot seat, when he led authorities on a 50-mile chase that went from San Clemente to La Jolla, according to LA Now. more ›

An audit report of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has revealed massive amounts of overtime and disrespect for the rules that may have led to underperforming deputies, according to the LA Times via a county report. Key findings in the report include: more ›

Despite having returned back to his post just two weeks ago, today Orange County's beleagured Sheriff Michael Carona, announced his retirement from the job on the Department's blog. Carona is entwined in a mess of legal troubles that extend to include his wife and his mistress, Deborah Carona and Debra Hoffman, respectively, in its web. more ›