CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 15, 2009 | Tami Abdollah
A onetime assistant sheriff and trusted aide of convicted former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison for scheming to defraud the public of honest services and filing a false tax return. In a voice husky with emotion, George Jaramillo apologized to the court and said, "I am here to say that I am profoundly sorry for what I have done. While I did not set out to commit crimes, my cavalier and irresponsible mode . . . was criminal." Carona appointed Jaramillo as assistant sheriff in 1999 and fired him in March 2004, after rumors spread that a federal investigation of the Sheriff's Department was underway.
NEWS
September 16, 1994 | NANCY WRIDE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
It's 1970, white eye shadow is still in, and you've just graduated from the Orange County Sheriff's Department academy, first in your class. Fast forward to 1976. After a rapid rise through the ranks, its time to transfer to an undercover drug detail. Meet your new partner, one Wayne Carlander. He's a sunflower-seed-chomping, clever veteran who's talked robbers into surrendering and turning over the loot, all without moving his 300-pound, 6-feet-6 body from his desk.
NEWS
June 14, 1996 | JIM NEWTON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Orange County sheriff's vehicle pursuit policy, which imposes strict guidelines on when an officer may initiate a chase, was lauded Thursday as a model for other major Southern California law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 6, 2010 | By Paloma Esquivel
The Orange County Sheriff's Department will lay off one of its highest-ranking officers as well as 23 professional staff members this month as it grapples with a budget shortfall of more than $50 million. Among those who will lose their jobs is Assistant Sheriff Michael Hillmann, a four-decade veteran of the LAPD hired by Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens to help lead the department in the wake of corruption allegations against her predecessor. Hillmann, 64, ran into controversy early on when he was caught sending text messages mocking activists and board members during a Board of Supervisors meeting early last year on the department's gun permit policies.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 21, 1993 | KEVIN JOHNSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A Florida-based communications firm could lose its hold on an $80-million Orange County law enforcement communications contract for failing to meet technical standards demanded by a special review team, officials said Monday. Although the Harris Corp. enjoyed the support of Sheriff Brad Gates in winning tentative approval for one of the biggest contracts in recent county history, officials said the firm could not satisfy terms necessary for final approval by the Board of Supervisors.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 24, 2005 | David Haldane, Times Staff Writer
Federal agents Wednesday arrested eight men they say are associated with a Southern California-based smuggling ring responsible for shipping an estimated 660 pounds of cocaine each month -- worth about $60 million a year -- to cities around the country. "It was a very large-scale operation," said Terri Flynn, the assistant U.S. attorney set to prosecute the case in Orange County. "Our goal was to dismantle the trafficking."