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An officer with the Benicia (CA) Police Department responded to a welfare check call, discovering an elderly woman whose out-of-town family had not been able to contact her. A week later, he returned to see if she needed anything.
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The massive wind-whipped fire that roared through California mountain towns and hamlets on Thursday appears to have spared little, including homes owned by Cal Fire crews, Paradise police officers, and Butte County sheriff's deputies.
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Sgt. Ron Helus, who spoke to his wife multiple times during every shift, told her “I’ve got to go handle a call. I love you. I’ll talk to you later,” Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said Thursday.
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According to Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean, the slain Ventura County SO sergeant and a California Highway Patrol officer arrived on the scene at the Borderline Bar and Grill within three minutes of the call coming in and made entry into the establishment because they “heard shots being fired."
Read More →In what could be a stunning upset in the race to be Los Angeles County sheriff, challenger Alex Villanueva took a narrow lead over Sheriff Jim McDonnell early Wednesday.
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Highland Station received a call regarding a pig "the size of a mini horse" running around the neighborhood. Deputies Shelly Ponce and Ashleigh Berg found the animal—named "Smalls"—and due to previous calls, knew where he lived.
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Incumbent Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell finds himself in a much tighter race than expected, with voters heading to the polls on Tuesday. If Retired Sheriff's Lieutenant Alex Villanueva wins, he'll become the first person to unseat a living Los Angeles County Sheriff in more than 100 years.
Read More →A Bay Area vehicle pursuit that began in Vallejo and ended in Oakland—two cities roughly 30 miles apart—ended in an officer-involved shooting that left one unidentified male suspect injured.
Read More →A San Francisco paramedic and a police officer have lost their jobs after an alleged assault in May 2017 on a woman who was restrained in the back of an ambulance on an involuntary mental health hold, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Prosecutors have determined that two officers with the San Jose (CA) Police Department were justified in fatally shooting an ax-wielding man in January 2018. The man—identified as 27-year-old Thompson Nguyen—had been seen waving the weapon at a power facility in a rural area near downtown.
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