Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

A veteran sheriff’s deputy is suing Los Angeles County, alleging he was subjected to retaliation by members of a deputy subgroup at the Compton Sheriff’s Station for resisting an alleged arrest quotas.

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, publicly called for the LA County Sheriff’s Department to release the names of deputies who took or shared photos of Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant and seven other victims of a helicopter crash in Calabasas last January.

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy, father and Marine veteran lost his life in a crash in Lakewood. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2021.

“Sergeant Armando Meneses was a dear husband, father & almost 25 year veteran of our Department,” LASD said in a tweet. “He was a truly honorable man with a golden heart. Please keep him and his entire family in your prayers.”

Attorneys for the family of a 29-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in August after they stopped him for bicycling on the wrong side of a street said they are filing a claim against Los Angeles County.

His family is filing a wrongful death claim. John Cadiz Klemack reports Feb. 11, 2021.

Patty Dryden lives in the Whitley Heights community of Hollywood – historically the first neighborhood in Hollywood Hills. She says the park across from the Hollywood Bowl looks very different today than it did 5 years ago when transients, gangs and drugs took over.

Sheriff’s deputy, Timothy Tellez, passed away due to complications with COVID-19 leaving behind a wife and a one-year-old son. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Feb. 4, 2021.

An investigation is underway into an illegal cockfighting operation in the Llano area of Los Angeles County east of Palmdale, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported Wednesday. Deputies served a search warrant Jan. 27 at a property in the 23000 block of Fort Tejon Road as “part of an investigation related to animal cruelty and possession of game fowl…

It’s only the second time this kind of inquest has been held in nearly 30 years, looking into a deputy-involved fatal shooting in Willowbrook. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner held its second inquest in nearly 30 years Thursday to provide a public examination of the death of Fred Williams, III, who was shot to death while running from LA County Sheriff’s Department deputies in Willowbrook last year.

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who worked at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility died of complications from COVID-19, the department announced Monday.

A special task force of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department conducted raids on five New Year’s Eve “super-spreader” parties across the county, making over 90 arrests and taking seven handguns off the streets, officials said Friday.

A special task force of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department conducted raids on five New Year’s Eve “super-spreader” parties across the county, making over 90 arrests. NBC4 News reports at 5 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2021. 

The parties took place throughout the county, in areas such as Palmdale, downtown Los Angeles and Compton. In total, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department made 235 arrests and recovered seven illegal firearms, according to the agency.

The LA County Sheriff’s Department says they’ve arrested nearly 160 people, including juveniles, as part of their efforts to crack down on so-called “super spreader” events. The department also said they rescued a teenage girl from possible human trafficking and recovered several guns at a large party in Palmdale. NBC4 investigative reporter Lolita Lopez reports on Dec. 8, 2020.

The first inquest held in LA County in decades starts after family members of 18-year-old Andres Guardado question the LA Sheriff Department’s version of events on the day a deputy fatally shot him in the back. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020.

Proceedings begin Monday for the coroner’s office’s inquest into the June 18 death of 18-year-old Andres Guardado, who was fatally shot in the back by a sheriff’s deputy after running from authorities at an auto shop near Gardena, where he was employed as an informal security guard.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva must show in a hearing early next year why he should not be held in contempt for defying a subpoena to appear before the civilian board that oversees his department and talk about the coronavirus problem in the jails, a judge ruled Friday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Holly Fujie rejected arguments by Villanueva’s attorney, Linda...

Authorities said Tuesday that a patient who was shot by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy inside Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in October has died. Nicholas Burgos Jr., 38, who had been shot multiple times, died on Nov. 1, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office reported. Burgos was hospitalized after the Oct. 6 shooting, which occurred after he used a piece…