San Diego County Sheriff's Department

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the Health and Human Services Agency’s Behavioral Health Services division, under an agreement announced Wednesday, will seek to develop a better way to provide behavioral and physical health services in the county’s seven detention facilities.

An 87-year-old Vista resident had to be rescued from her burning home Friday after her son allegedly set fire to the residence while high on some sort of drug.

Seven inmates at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa were hospitalized after they were believed to have overdosed on fentanyl, authorities said.

A two-year prison sentence was handed down Friday for a former San Diego County sheriff’s captain who pleaded guilty to running an illegal arms-trafficking operation in which he bought and resold guns available only to law enforcement.

A preliminary hearing is underway for a former San Diego Sheriff’s Department deputy charged with murder in the shooting of a fleeing detainee outside a downtown San Diego jail.

San Diego deputies are continuing their search for a man reported missing three weeks ago – a man who had a stroke before his disappearance and has other medical issues.

A 16-year-old girl and 11 women were recovered during a two-day human trafficking operation in San Diego County that also resulted in the arrests of five men and woman on a variety of charges, authorities announced Thursday.

A Santee man accused of the death of his infant daughter pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of murder and child abuse. Daniel Charles Marshall, 34, was arrested and charged last week in connection with the April 25 death of 7-month-old Hailey Marshall. Paramedics responding to a medical emergency call in the 8600 block of Paseo Del Rey in Santee…

The parents who fought off a would-be kidnapper in a Costco parking lot over the weekend say the encounter has them uneasy and looking over their shoulders at all times.

A former San Diego County sheriff’s captain pleaded guilty Tuesday to running a longstanding illegal arms trafficking operation, in which he bought and resold guns available only to law enforcement for both financial and professional gain. Marco Garmo, 52, the former captain of the sheriff’s Rancho San Diego station, illegally purchased and resold “off roster” firearms, which may be...

An internal affairs probe of a member of the sheriff’s department who “shared a vulgar image” is under way, according to officials.