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…
Two men lost their lives while serving their communities. Two others were killed while serving their country. Fittingly, all four…
The new patrol deputy and father of two had 30 minutes to go until the end of his shift. He…
The deputy pushed his smartphone across the conference room table. “Here’s one,” he said. The photo showed a person wearing…
The bad guy made a good impression. Thanks to his dusty butt. In his nearly 21 years at the Orange…