Body Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigators are looking for the owner of a 20-year-old white horse abandoned in unincorporated north Orange County. At about 3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 4, deputies along with OC Animal Care responded to a report of a neglected horse in the ravine near the 57 freeway...

Body A married couple who had been living out of a car for months was placed into housing thanks to help from a dedicated OCSD team tasked with helping the homeless. Lake Forest Homeless Liaison Officer Deputy Castro, along with OCSD’s South Homeless Outreach Team, came to know Jacob and his...

Body It’s the last day of January: How are those New Year’s resolutions holding up for everyone? The start of the year brings commitments to live healthier lives, so we decided to keep with the theme and commit to creating healthier communities. We are partnering with the Orange County Human Relations...

Body The Orange County Sheriff's Department is partnering with Vanguard University for a unique college course experience behind the walls of the Intake Release Center.

Body There are the calls that test them. Every dispatcher is guaranteed to receive that first call that challenges their resolve for navigating someone else’s worst imaginable day. Dispatcher Katie Howard received one such call in her first week off training. A mother had inadvertently fell asleep on her seven-week-old baby...

Body The Orange County Sheriff’s Department Mounted Enforcement Unit (MEU) is saddened to announce the tragic passing of Police Service Horse Cloud after he suffered a medical emergency during monthly training on Wednesday, Nov. 7 in Riverside County. Cloud’s passing is the first on-duty MEU death in the nearly 50-year history...

Body A man suspected of committing a robbery at a Yorba Linda commercial business Tuesday night is in custody after several residents spotted the suspect and notified the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. At about 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 18, the Sheriff’s Department received reports of a male subject, who had...

Body On April 24, 2019 just before 1 a.m., Deputy Dean and her partner were dispatched to Anaheim reference a person not breathing. Upon arrival, they discovered an elderly man lying on the bedroom floor. The man was not breathing and did not have a pulse. The victim’s son told Deputy...

Body The Orange County Sheriff's Department Traffic Division will hold a DUI checkpoint in Mission Viejo on Friday.

Body As Independence Day nears, Sheriff’s Department officials are expressing concern about the steep increase in illegal firework calls and what that could mean for community safety. Calls regarding illegal fireworks are up nearly 300 percent across Orange County compared to last year, according to data collected by law enforcement agencies...