SANTA ANA, Ca. (March 16, 2020): Earlier today, Sheriff Don Barnes issued directives and implemented a strategy for decreasing potential COVID-19 exposure to the community and Department personnel. “Our foremost responsibility is to keep the community safe, while implementing precautionary measures to safeguard the health of the public who rely...
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Ca. (Aug. 31, 2020) – Distracted driving is a dangerous and illegal behavior the Sheriff’s Department is working to deter drivers from doing. On Thursday, Sept. 3, deputies will focus their efforts on drivers that are talking, texting, using an app or any other action on their...
SANTA ANA, Ca. (June 28, 2019) – Beginning July 1, 2019, Southern California Edison (SCE) will begin deactivating and removing a siren system from communities surrounding the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) nuclear power plant. View PDF
Stanton, Calif. (April 4, 2018) – The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will step up bike and pedestrian safety enforcement operations throughout the county on Saturday, April 7, with focused enforcement on collision-causing factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. View PDF
MISSION VIEJO, Ca. (July 27, 2020) – The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting a DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint on Friday, July 31, from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. at an undisclosed location in the city of Mission Viejo. View PDF
LAGUNA HILLS, Ca. (March 18, 2019) – The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will step up bike and pedestrian safety enforcement operations throughout the county on Friday, March 22, with focused enforcement on collision-causing factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. View PDF
SANTA ANA, Ca. (July 14, 2020): The Orange County Board of Supervisors today approved a pilot program that would expand the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s School Mobile Assessment and Resource Team (SMART) to three additional Orange County cities. The Sheriff’s Department will enter into an agreement with the cities of...
Forensic History: The man that was freed thanks to science For 16 years, Kevin Green maintained he didn’t do it. It was someone else, he said, who had entered his pregnant wife’s bedroom in 1979, bludgeoned her into a coma, killing the couple’s unborn daughter. When Green’s wife, Dianna D’Aiello...
LAKE FOREST, Ca. (September 26, 2018) - The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect who robbed a Lake Forest bank on Monday September 24, 2018. View PDF
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. (March 13, 2019)- The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting a specialized Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation Saturday, March 16, in an effort to lower deaths and injuries. View PDF