An immigrant, combat veteran and Republican, Lt. Oscar Martinez to challenge incumbent sheriff in deep blue L.A. County.

Lt. Oscar Martinez, a Sheriff’s Department employee, will challenge Sheriff Robert Luna, who is seeking reelection.

allegations about deputy gangs and persistent staffing woes. But he’s also made good on promises to provide more even-keeled leadership and repair fractured relationships with other county leaders.

Since taking office, he’s faced many of the problems that bedeviled prior sheriffs: poor jail conditions, sprawling consent decrees, allegations about deputy gangs ... by LASD, and 2024 saw ...

Martinez said he feels Luna did not do enough to defend Deputy Trevor James Kirk ... has fallen every year in the areas patrolled by LASD, and 2024 saw the fewest number of homicides in the ...

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy is now facing federal drug and weapons charges in a Castaic jail. Michael Meiser, 39, assigned to investigate gang activity at Pitchess Detention Center in ...

A longtime detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s anti-gang unit has admitted to ... Eric Chase Saavedra, an L.A. County deputy and former federal task force officer ...

In the early morning hours of Thursday, April 17, the Juveniles and Gangs (JAG) team at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station led a coordinated, multi-location operation aimed at disrupting ...