Bob Squires is honored today as the first Orange County Sheriff's Department officer to die in the line of duty. The investigation into the Battle of Tomato Springs appears to have been cursory at best, leaving numerous questions and inconsistencies which are pondered even now. But back in th...
Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct a reference to Betsy Arakawa's age. The sheriff's department says she was 65. In: New Mexico Gene Hackman Obituary David Morgan David Morgan is senior producer for CBSNews.com and the Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning." He...
Salazar, a Democrat, spent 23 years with the San Antonio Police Department before he was elected sheriff in 2016. He asked his organized crimes unit to investigate. After eight months they uncovered what Sheriff Salazar calls a "covert criminal operation'' carried out by individuals who w...
” said Duran, who believes the department had never before filed a felony complaint against a deputy stemming from the inaccuracy of a report. “This action was brought against Mr. Boland because he was a gay sheriff.”
This year the lack of buses became an even clearer safety issue when the Hughes fire broke out near the Castaic jail complex,spurring questions about whetherthe Sheriff’s Department was even capable of evacuating the facilities’ 4,700 inmates with so few working...
The Wilson County Sheriff's Department Patrol Divisions primary duties are the protection and service to citizens of Wilson County. The Patrol Division is dedicated to the safety of people and property county wide. Wilson County covers a large geographic area that is patrolled twenty-four hours dai...
“Members of the SRT were able to quickly control of Leiter and handcuff him to the rear [of the RV],” the sheriff’s department report said. “After standing him up and trying to escort him to a patrol vehicle, he began resisting. Leiter had to be pushed towards the patrol vehicles...
Within hours, Shipp spotted18 Johnson riding on the back of an ice wagon19. Johnson was handcuffed, brought to jail, and identified by Hixon as the man he had seen with the strap by St. Elmo station. Word of Johnson's arrest spread quickly. That evening a large crowd--many carrying ...
“In a nutshell, the Department of Corrections (DOC) has asked me to identify inmates for an ongoing program entitled “Mister Coffee Bean,” Prator said in his message to school district leaders. “This program will educate a select number of currently incarcerated felony inmates. These inmates...
On April 11, 2006 at approximately 1113 hours, an employee at Royal Oaks Charcoal received a bomb threat by telephone. The facility was immediately evacuated. Officers from the Howell County Sheriff’s Office responded along with the West Plains Fire Department. Because of the extensive size of ...