Mission Viejo, Ca. (April 15, 2023): Distracted driving is a dangerous and illegal behavior the Sheriff’s Department is working to deter drivers from doing. On Monday, Apr. 17, deputies will…

STANTON, Ca. (April 10, 2023) – Orange County Sheriff's Department Investigators are seeking assistance in identifying the three individuals shown below who are possibly associated to a fatal…

SANTA ANA, Ca. (April 14, 2023) – On Thursday, April 13, 2023, an inmate housed at the Intake Release Center in Santa Ana died at the hospital. The inmate, Brian Schaar, 37, was booked into jail…

Stanton, Ca. (April 16, 2023): On Saturday, 04/15/23, at 3:12 pm deputies were dispatched to the 10000 block of Fern Ave regarding a shooting. Deputies arrived and located two adult males who each…

SANTA ANA, Ca. (April 24, 2023) – Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Don Barnes today released the following Op Ed:   In 2018, I testified in support of legislation we sponsored to increase…

LAGUNA HILLS, Ca. (April 24, 2023) – On Saturday, April 22, 2023, at 10:07 p.m. Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to the 25000 block of Alicia Parkway in the city of Laguna Hills…

DANA POINT, CA. (May 11, 2023): On Saturday, May 13, 2023, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department will have deputies at the Palm Tree Musical Festival educating the public on how to monitor their…

MIDWAY CITY, Ca. (April 26, 2023) – At 12:05 a.m. on April 26, 2023, Orange County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 15000 block of Van Buren Street in the city of Midway City reference a…

  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…

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.…