Behind the Badge
Mother Nature makes already challenging job of an OCSD crime scene investigator even trickier
0The trail of blood stretched for two-and-a-half blocks in the Stanton neighborhood. Two guys had gotten into a vicious fight involving knives and a baseball bat, and the blood was from one who ended up dying after he stumbled back to his house. On this night in 2008, it was up to Omar Lazo and his partner, Andrew Hayes, to document and collect evidence for Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigators. Hayes was a newly promoted lead forensic specialist with the OCSD’s Crime Lab Identification Bureau. Lazo was a forensic specialist. Lazo and Hayes are among the OCSD’s 14 Crime scene…
Clyde, a former Percheron Draft Horse rescued from certain death by an Orange County Sheriff’s Department reserve lieutenant, died Monday,…
Early in her career as a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Sandra Hutchens felt the frustration patrol…
Crime scene tape marks an area outside the OC Crime Lab in Santa Ana, where the forensics team is pulling…
Their faces are etched in her memory. In her 40-plus years in law enforcement, O.C. Sheriff-Coroner Sandra Hutchens has encountered…