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Sheriff Chad Bianco is expected to make an official announcement on his coming run Monday. Current Gov. Gavin Newsom cannot run again.
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LASD said Detective Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Detective Victor Lemus, and Detective William Osborn who were all assigned to Special Enforcement Bureau’s Arson Explosives Detail were killed in the incident.
Read More →The Kern County (Calif.) Sheriff's Department is fending off accusations its deputies fatally beat a suspect with batons as he lay on the pavement.
Read More →Kern County (Calif.) Sheriff Donny Youngblood has asked the FBI to investigate the death of a man who was repeatedly struck by deputies' batons.
Read More →"There's evidence at the scene, to support that the suspect produced a shotgun and actually fired upon our K9 Obie," Madera County Sheriff Jared Pogue said.
Read More →Several schools were closed and residents were advised to lock their doors as a manhunt continued Monday in a remote Central California community for a murder suspect in the shooting of two Kern County, Calif., sheriff's deputies.
Read More →The man accused of shooting a Merced County, CA, sheriff's deputy was captured following a nearly hour-long high-speed chase. The sheriff said the man was in the country illegally and the agency had been unable to turn him over to ICE earlier this year because of politics.
Read More →The March 4 special election will allow voters to decide on an amendment to the county charter that, if approved, would grant the board the power to remove a sitting sheriff.
Read More →Riverside County (Calif.) Sheriff Stan Sniff has mailed layoff notices to 800 full-time staffers and will begin implementing layoffs of deputies June 1 to help close budget gaps plaguing the county. The cuts could also cause reductions in jail operations.
Read More →Three Kern County (Calif.) Sheriff's Deputies shot and killed a woman after she allegedly pointed a BB gun at them. Officers contated the woman who was standing on a rock pile throwning rocks. When she pointed a BB gun made to look like a real semi-auto handgun at them, they opened fire, killing her.
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