LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. (Feb. 5, 2018) - On Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017, at approximately 8:50 p.m. Stephen Schenkenberger was struck on his bicycle while crossing Niguel Road from Ridgeway in the City of Laguna Niguel. View PDF
PRINTS: Right Thumb CORONER CASE NUMBER: 96-00192-WU SEX: Male RACE: Hispanic DATE of DEATH: 1/7/96 AGE Est. : 22-35 EYES: Brown HAIR: Black HEIGHT. Inches: 63 WEIGHT LBS: 137 LOCATION FOUND: SB I-57 Freeway at West La Jolla Street, Placentia. CLASSIFICATION OF DEATH: Accident PHYSIQUE: Slender FEATURES: Moustache w/ small...
SAN CLEMENTE, Ca. (Aug. 17, 2020) – Distracted driving is a dangerous and illegal behavior the Sheriff’s Department is working to deter drivers from doing. View PDF
SANTA ANA, Ca. (March 11, 2019) – The Orange County Sheriff’s Department Coroner Division has determined an official cause of death for UCI student Noah Domingo, 18, of La Crescenta. View PDF
Prints: Right Thumb CORONER CASE NUMBER: 86-05561-HA SEX: Male RACE: Hispanic DATE of DEATH: 12/5/86 AGE Est. : 25-35 EYES: Hazel HAIR: Black HGT. Inches: 67 WEIGHT LBS: 136 CITY FOUND: Anaheim LOCATION FOUND: Wooded area by freeway overpass, I-5 at Harbor Blvd. DEATH CLASSIFICATION: Suicide PHYSIQUE: Normal FEATURES: Prominent...
SANTA ANA, Ca. (October 10, 2018)- On October 9, 2018, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Highway Interdiction Team initiated a traffic stop for vehicle code violations on the northbound I-5 freeway between Orange and San Diego counties. The driver, Miguel Patron, 41, Ensenada, identified himself, stated he was a police...
SANTA ANA, Ca. (Feb. 26, 2018) - As of 2 p.m. today, all individuals encamped along the Santa Ana River Trail in the project area between Ball Road in the city of Anaheim and Memory Lane in the city of Orange have voluntarily complied with the request to relocate. The...
SANTA ANA, Ca. (May 30, 2019) – Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigators arrested a man suspected of murdering a 30-year-old woman in 1976 and dumping her body near the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. View PDF
STANTON, Ca. (May 2, 2019) – The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will step up bike and pedestrian safety enforcement operations throughout the city of Stanton on Monday, May 6, with focused enforcement on collision-causing factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. View PDF
Forensic History: The murders that made the case for Orange County’s Crime Lab In an era when murder trials were a form of macabre entertainment for the masses, Orange County was home to one of the most sensational. George Gollum and Beulah Louise Overell were accused of murdering Overell’s parents...