Behind the Badge
Patrol deputy in Mission Viejo has extra motivation to ride for fallen officers in Policy Unity Tour in D.C.
0In May 2016, Orange County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Carolynn Cuzynski grinded her way from Somerset, N.J., to Washington, D.C., as a first-time participant in the Police Unity Tour. The 300-mile bicycle ride, held every year, raises money for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Cuzynski, who became an OCSD deputy in 2013 after working as an EMT, signed up for the ride a few months prior at the pursuasion of a friend at the California Highway Patrol. Never a bike rider, Cuzynski, who grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, took training seriously and completed the ride with thousands of other…
When he became a deputy in 1989, Don Barnes had his badge pinned on him by then-Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Brad…
Just before lunchtime on Dec. 20, 2018, Sandra Hutchens sat in her nearly empty office at the Orange County Sheriff’s…
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Marianna has just money enough to scrape by month to month. Yet, she never asks for handouts. She rents a…