Behind the Badge
OCSD creates new Master Field Training Officer position, and this deputy now is a proud ‘one-striper’
0As the horrors of the mass shooting in Las Vegas played out on the evening of Oct. 1, 2017, Lauren Felix got on the phone with her brother, who was attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival with his girlfriend. Felix, a deputy with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, spent two hours on the phone with her brother, Eddie, keeping one ear on the Vegas Metro PD scanner as she told him what was going on and what to do while he and his girlfriend, Ashley (now his wife), were hiding. “I have never been more grateful for the training…
One by one, to enthusiastic applause, the elementary school students bounded up to the front of the multipurpose room to…
Close to 500 Girl Scouts, many perhaps future scientists, mathematicians, and engineers went hands-on as they explored a wide range…
Teenagers scream as they run out of the building toward the deputies, who are advancing with guns drawn. It’s dark…
The minute the polls closed on Tuesday night, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department sprang into action. “It’s a hive of…