Federal prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy with smuggling heroin into a jail where he was ...

The manufacturer of the test kits notified the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in August that many of the kits were likely defective, but it kept using them for several months.

"We take the integrity of our criminal investigations and the reliability of our forensic testing very seriously,” L.A.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said this week it will retest 4,000 DNA samples and open an internal investigation after learning that it used potentially flawed ...

(Photo by Cheng Xin/Getty Images) FILE - A roll of police tape is left on the windshield of Los Angeles County sheriff's vehicle in the parking lot of its training academy in Whittier, Calif., ...

FILE - A roll of police tape is left on the windshield of Los Angeles County sheriff's vehicle in the parking lot of its training academy in Whittier, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.

Los Angeles Sheriff's Department to Retest 4,000 DNA Samples After Using Faulty Kits for 8 Months LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said this week it will retest ...

March 27 (UPI) --The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will retest more than 4,000 DNA samples after announcing it used a faulty testing kit for at least eight months. The sheriff's office ...