The joint operation with the FBI served search warrants at 18 locations in Lancaster and Palmdale related to members of an unnamed street gang, according to the LA County Sheriff's Department.

“In an effort to combat criminal street gang activity, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department formed the Operation Safe Streets (OSS) Bureau in 1979,” officials said. “There are OSS ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s leadership continues to make progress on proposals meant to root out deputy gangs and cliques, but the agency hasn’t settled on policies that would ban ...

Federal prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy with smuggling heroin into a jail where he was assigned to investigate gang crimes. Michael Meiser, 39, has pleaded not ...

Villanueva agrees to testify before the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, but tells Los Angeles ... gangs." Villanueva is currently running to replace Janice Hahn, one of the L.A. County ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. authorities have taken a longtime leader of a Los Angeles street gang who investigators say ran a “mafia-like” criminal enterprise that included murder, human ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s leadership continues to make progress on proposals meant to root out deputy gangs and cliques, but the agency hasn’t settled on policies that ...