With over 18,000 employees, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is the largest in the U.S.—but the department has also been plagued by dozens of often-violent gangs and cliques ...

Sheriff Alex Villanueva of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. At least 41 Los Angeles County deputies have been identified as being tattooed members of the Banditos or Executioners gangs ...

A change-of-plea hearing was delayed Thursday until July 10 for a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy charged with taking part in a Mexican Mafia operation to smuggle heroin into a Castaic jail in ...

Police officers in Los Angeles County's Baldwin Park initially responded to a call at around 7 p.m. of someone shooting rounds with a rifle. ... the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.