Federal prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy with smuggling heroin into a jail where he was assigned to investigate gang crimes.

Overtime costs have ballooned at the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Last year, deputies worked more than 4.3 million hours of overtime.

Officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that an outage of its emergency 911 system Wednesday impacted all 23 stations. The incident, according to an LASD news release ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will retest about 4,000 DNA samples after discovering some exam kits used last year and in early 2025 might be prone to "intermittently poor performance ...

March 27 (UPI) --The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will retest more than 4,000 DNA samples after announcing it used a faulty testing kit for at least eight months. The sheriff's office ...

FILE - A roll of police tape is left on the windshield of Los Angeles County sheriff's vehicle in the parking lot of its training academy in Whittier, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.

Loved ones are searching for a missing woman who was last seen in Los Angeles County. Dajia Nicole Patton, 28, was reported missing on March 9. Her last known location was on the 9700 block of ...

LOS ANGELES -- In February, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Trevor James Kirk was found guilty of using excessive force during a shoplifting investigation outside of a supermarket in Lancaster.

It’s unclear what was said, but the situation quickly escalated into a physical altercation, according to investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. During the fight ...

A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recruit was arrested this month on suspicion of assault with a firearm, the department said Wednesday. Kiwan Newbell, 36, was fired one day after ...