Behind the Badge
From singing the national anthem to art and magic, this OCSD deputy is a modern renaissance man
0The deputy walked up to the visitor in the empty courtroom during the noon to 1:30 p.m. lunch break and reached behind the visitor’s right ear. He then produced a large coin. “It’s a penny from your thoughts,” quipped Deputy Joseph Devela, who’s been practicing magic for three years. “There’s big money in magic, see?” Devela hasn’t quite figured out how to make bad guys disappear, but he uses magic to break the ice with people who show up for hearings in the Family Law courtroom he works in at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange. Because the hearings in…
The deputy walks along the paved Oso Creek Trail, looking for a homeless man named Craig. As she heads under…
Decked out in all his Orange County Sheriff’s Department swag, Robert Tait was a happy young man. On this day,…
Vanguard University students and inmates at Orange County Jail have been working together to examine problems with the criminal justice…
OC Human Relations last week honored Sheriff Sandra Hutchens for “dedicating her service to the ideals of transparency, civilian oversight…