The Orange County Sheriff's Department Traffic Division will target distracted drivers with enhanced patrol efforts on Friday.
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 Orange County Sheriff’s Department will now actively enforce state trespass laws and will maintain high visibility patrols in the area. This active enforcement of trespass laws will enable the County to complete the environmental remediation project and restore the area to its intended purpose.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department Traffic Division made a dozen arrests and issued my than 40 traffic citations in an overnight checkpoint in Aliso Viejo Friday, Feb. 9.
More than 700 cars were screened at the DUI Checkpoint set up at Aliso Creek Road near Park Plaza from Friday night through the early morning hours on Saturday.
Three drivers were given field sobriety tests, and two DUI arrests were made. Nine other drivers were arrested for license violations, including eight unlicensed drivers and one driving on a suspended license.
Forty-four traffic citations also were issued as part of the checkpoint effort.
A grant provided by the California Office of Traffic Safety allows the Sheriff’s Department to host various checkpoints throughout the year.
While pulling impaired and unlicensed drivers off the road to keep the community safe remains one goal of these checkpoints, they also serve to educate the public on the dangers of drunken or drugged driving.
High-visibility enforcement using both checkpoints and saturation patrols have proven to lower the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol or drug-related crashes. Research shows that crashes involving an impaired driver can be reduced by up to 20 percent when well-publicized, proactive DUI checkpoints are routinely conducted.
An investigation into a suspicious persons call resulted in the recovery of thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise and the arrest of three suspects.
Deputies at about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1, responded to reports of suspicious subjects at Kohl’s in the 22000 block of El Paseo in Rancho Santa Margarita.
Upon arrival, deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle with three people matching the description of the persons from the suspicious subjects call.
A search of the suspects’ vehicle led to the recovery of numerous credit cards and thousands of dollars in merchandise from local businesses, including clothing and power tools.
Investigators with the Sheriff’s Department’s Economic Crimes Unit responded to the scene and determined the credits cards all had been either altered or stolen.
Savina Hernandez, 37; John Lopez , 31; and Angelina Venagas, 28, all were arrested on suspicion of identity theft and burglary.
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 Commission to promote kindness, acceptance and tolerance for a #HateFreeOC.
Although these ideals seem easy to practice every day, for teens and young adults a need to fit in or the stress of peer pressure can sometimes make it easy to stay quiet or look the other way when injustice occurs.
Join the OCSD Explorer Post #449, along with the entire Sheriff's Department, in standing up to hate this year and always.
SANTA ANA,Ca. (Jan. 23, 2018) -The Orange County Sheriff’s Department – OC Crime Lab has been awarded a $270,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) for cannabinoid research and enhanced drug impaired driving testing. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will use the funding to facilitate the efficient testing of all blood samples collected in DUI investigations for the presence of drugs, regardless of the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and conduct cannabinoid research.
Dozens of shelter dogs will wait for their forever homes a little more comfortably thanks to a recycling program that repurposes inmate clothing and blankets to make dog beds and chew toys.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department in December donated more than 100 beds and toys to OC Animal Care as part of Jails to Tails – a sustainability program run by personnel at the Theo Lacy facility.
In 2013, Theo Lacy evaluated its practices and looked for innovative ways to divert waste from local landfills, with the Jails to Tails program being among the ideas.
The facility goes through 15 tons of clothing and bedding every year. When inmate clothing cannot be repaired or recycled into machine shop rags, it gets shredded and stuffed into large pillowcase-like pockets made out of old jail bed sheets.
Since the program’s inception, Jails to Tails has donated more than 700 items to OC Animal Care.
