Sheriff Alex Villanueva responded Tuesday to the latest whistleblower case brought against him as well as Los Angeles County, calling a sheriff's lieutenant's allegation Villanueva quashed an investigation into a police dog's death part of "yet another frivolous lawsuit."
A retired Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department chief Monday sued the county and Sheriff Alex Villanueva, the latest of several department members to claim Villanueva directed a coverup of a video of a deputy with his knee on the head of a man in custody for three minutes.
A grand jury will investigate how the L.A. County Sheriff's Department handled an incident in which a deputy kneeled on a handcuffed inmate’s head for 3 minutes.
A year after L.A. County Deputy Doug Johnson took graphic photos of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash scene that were then passed around, he was caught up in another scandal.