Orange County Sheriff's Department

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 32-year-old Laguna Hills man was charged Oct. 19 with shooting a security guard in Laguna Hills. Matthew Luke Pickens was charged with attempted murder with sentencing enhancements ...

ORANGE, Calif.—Orange County Sheriff's Department deputies confiscated approximately 200 pounds of marijuana and an undisclosed sum of cash ...

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—A pit bull mix dog was stolen from its owner during a brazen attack inside a ...

A shooting at a Southern California bar left four dead—including the gunman, who is a former police officer—and ...

LAKE FOREST, Calif.—Orange County sheriff's deputies wounded a man on Aug. 20 suspected of stabbing two people at ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—A 21-year-old San Diego former Marine reached a plea deal agreement with prosecutors on July 14 ...

Orange County sheriff's investigators released a surveillance video photo of a suspect on July 12 in a fatal ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Three men were behind bars July 6 in the killing of a good Samaritan who intervened ...

Purchasing fentanyl is now as easy as ordering an Uber. At least that’s what one county supervisor in ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.—Investigators were continuing a search Tuesday for suspects in the weekend beating of at least two ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—A 32-year-old man was charged May 24 with attacking two men with a pick axe in ...

LAKE FOREST, Calif.—A man crashed a car into a house in Lake Forest May 22 and then allegedly ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 22-year-old man was committed indefinitely May 1 to a state mental health facility after he ...

On Saturday, April 22, two 17-year-old boys were rushed to the hospital after a shooting occurred near the ...

STANTON, Calif.—Two men were shot in Stanton April 16, one fatally, and the shooter remains on the loose. ...

A coordinated theft, with the use of power tools, occurred March 11 between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.—An Orange County jail inmate attempted to escape from the Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana ...

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—A man sought by authorities for months has been arrested in the 2022 killing of a ...

An off-duty Orange County sheriff's deputy was killed in a single-vehicle crash Feb. 9 in Lake Elsinore, leaving ...

DANA POINT, Calif.—A Long Beach man has been booked on suspicion of murder for allegedly hitting a bicyclist—a ...

Three suspects were believed to have burglarized nine businesses in south Orange County on Jan. 11 between midnight ...

Foothill High School history teacher Roger Kavigan, 55, of Long Beach was arrested Nov. 23 for allegedly sending ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 64-year-old man pleaded guilty Nov. 21 to making a bomb threat against the Laguna Niguel/Mission ...

The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 18 unanimously agreed to extend for three years a dog-training ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif.—An Orange County probation officer convicted in connection with stealing money while helping authorities carry out search ...

The Orange County Sheriff's Department circulated on Aug. 13 a photo of a 15-year-old girl who went missing ...

Orange County sheriff and fire authorities have released a joint statement disputing a recently published article by the Orange ...