Betancourt was previously arrested in July 2022, August and October of 2023 and this year in March and August, according to the LASD Inmate Information Center.

Every year, law enforcement faces unforeseen challenges due to changes in laws, policies, and societal shifts.

some of the first angry calls I got were from some of our judges who were not happy that some of our inmates were missing court." On Thursday, LASD and county officials unveiled the new 2024 Motor ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department celebrated its new fleet of inmate transfer buses Thursday ... According to the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, LASD has not received a new bus ...

“We need a new system and there’s no way around that,” Luna said. LASD, in mid-2023, issued a request for proposals for a new CAD system, officials said. Once those proposals come ...

After days of resorting to old techniques to track calls for service when their dispatch system crashed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says that they've successfully found a temporary ...

The family of a man who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy in Valencia nearly two years ago is suing the department. The suit, first reported by Seamus Hughes’ Court Watch ...

Villanueva also criticized the Board of Supervisors for the LASD’s “massive staffing crisis” and the “transportation bus crisis,” and alleged that the Los Angeles Times did not adequately cover these ...

Loved ones and detectives are seeking the community’s help in finding a teenage girl who went missing on Friday night. The ...

The failure of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s computer dispatch system on New Year’s Eve appears to have been years in the making. Department officials told KTLA that the ...

A quarter-century after the world avoided a much-ballyhooed Y2K crisis on New Year’s Eve — a six-digit date format in ...

The Medical Examiner’s office identified the fatal victim on Tuesday as Abraham Chavez. LASD homicide Lt. Michael Modica said Monday that Chavez was sitting inside a car when he was shot.