Jaramillo

George Jaramillo isn't on trial, but the former assistant Orange County sheriff has been taking his lumps in the federal courtroom where jurors are listening to the government's corruption case against his former boss, Mike Carona. It seems that just about every time jurors hear something unflattering about Carona, Jaramillo's name also pops up. And sometimes, even when the testimony doesn't seem to damage Carona.

Two documents used by George Jaramillo to defend himself from corruption charges appear to be forgeries, said prosecutors, who say they used them as leverage to get the former Orange County assistant sheriff to agree to spend a year in jail as part of a plea bargain.

An assistant Orange County sheriff who was fired and charged with perjury and spent a year in jail may be in line to get $750,000 in taxpayer money for wrongful termination. George Jaramillo, who was referred to as the "pickpocket" and the "The Great Satan" during former Sheriff Michael S.

A businessman who hired an Orange County assistant sheriff to promote a device to stop high-speed police chases testified Tuesday that the consulting agreement ended abruptly after only three months, well before the Sheriff's Department staged some of its demonstrations to show off the invention. Charles H.

In a tentative ruling Thursday, a judge found that his order to bar the release of inflammatory information in a corruption case against former Orange County Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo and his sister-in-law had been violated. The information that was leaked to at least one television station and a newspaper pertained to an alleged sexual relationship between Jaramillo and Erica Hill -- information that Superior Court Judge John D.

A former Orange County assistant sheriff fired in 2004 and sent to jail in a perjury conviction could receive about $270,000 in back pay under a judge's tentative ruling that he was wrongfully terminated by then-Sheriff Michael S. Carona, his attorney said Tuesday. In a tentative ruling issued June 19, Orange County Superior Court Judge Andrew Banks found that Carona, who was recently convicted of witness-tampering and sentenced to more than five years in prison, denied his former chief of staff, George Jaramillo, notice of termination and a due process hearing.

Their badges wrapped in black bands of mourning, police officers from throughout the West gathered Monday for a tearful tribute to Officer Howard Ellsworth Dallies Jr., who was gunned down last week during an apparent routine traffic stop. Dallies, a veteran officer who helped train recruits and was soon to be promoted to sergeant, was remembered as a "fallen hero" in a moving ceremony at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove.

Jose Salazar, an offensive lineman from Servite High School, has replaced Valencia's Paul Jaramillo on the North roster for the Orange County all-star football game, North Coach Tom Meiss said Wednesday. When Meiss learned that Jaramillo had decided on Wednesday not to play, he did not hesitate to call Salazar, 5 feet 10 and 190 pounds. "Earlier this year, Jose read in the paper that he had been nominated for the team and wrote me a nice note thanking me," Meiss said.

Former Orange County Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo and his sister-in-law withdrew their pleas of not guilty in a corruption case Friday. The procedural move will allow them to fight the charges on grounds that they are too broad and vague, and that the statute of limitations has expired on some. Jaramillo and Erica Lynn Hill are due back in court Jan. 5.

The couple who were arguably closer than anyone to former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona and his wife took center stage at his corruption trial Friday. Former Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo and Lisa Jaramillo were part of Carona's inner circle since his first campaign for sheriff in 1998: George ran the campaign and Lisa was chief fundraiser. And they did just about everything with the Caronas for the next six years.