Runners on the road during the annual Baker to Vegas law enforcement relay race through the Mojave Desert. (William Liang / For The Times) BAKER, Calif. — He was somewhere near Baker, well out into the Southern California desert, when the scrum […]
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Sheriff Robert Luna sued the county’s Civilian Oversight Commission this week, asking a court to decide whether the department should comply with the commission’s subpoenas requesting information about deputy misconduct and uses of force. Filed in L.A. County Superior Court,
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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 he allegedly threatened a man with a handgun, as
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Nearly two years after a Black mother sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department because, she said, a Palmdale deputy punched her in the face during a wrongful arrest, the deputy has filed suit as well. Timothy Gardner — who
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Four sheriff’s deputies at Men’s Central Jail were attacked Sunday by a group of inmates armed with a shank, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials and two sources inside the agency. There is no video footage of the
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Two U.S. lawmakers have asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold an “urgent” hearing about the Trump administration’s decision to hold detained migrants — many of whom are seeking asylum — in federal prisons. The request, sent Wednesday from California
Nearly six years after a jury awarded him $8.1 million in a lawsuit alleging he’d been harassed for reporting misconduct within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Deputy Andrew Rodriguez has been left empty-handed. When the award came down, the
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A key member of a commission that oversees the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department resigned Monday after the county’s attorneys tried to thwart the nine-member body’s filing of a legal brief in the politically charged criminal case against a former
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The Trump administration appears to be considering a plan to send immigrants facing deportation to a recently shuttered federal prison so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known as the “rape club,” according to an email sent by federal
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A few hours before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve, the computer dispatch system for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department crashed, rendering all patrol car computers nearly useless and forcing deputies to handle all calls by radio, according
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