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When Jose Ovalle real­ized that a blood­ied in­mate’s shirt from a jail brawl had gone miss­ing, he came up with a solu­tion for the miss­ing evid­ence. He poured taco sauce on a sim­il­ar shirt and took a photo of it, which was booked in­to evid­ence, ac­cord­ing to law en­force­ment and court re­cords. The Sher­iff’s De­part­ment de­cided at first to fire Ovalle but later agreed to a set­tle­ment in which he ...

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Roadway signs in the United States increasingly use symbols rather than words to convey their message. Symbols provide instant communication with roadway users, overcome language barriers, and are becoming standard for traffic control devices throughout the world. Familiarity with symbols on traffic signs is important for every road user in order to maintain the safety and efficiency of our transportation facilities.

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Scott Maus was ac­cused of grop­ing a wo­man and en­ga­ging in sex acts with her in his patrol vehicle in the park­ing lot of the Puente Hills Mall, ac­cord­ing to a dis­trict at­tor­ney memo. The deputy ad­mit­ted to the en­counter in 2000 but said it was con­sen­su­al, the memo said. Pro­sec­utors de­clined to charge Maus with sexu­al as­sault, con­clud­ing that jur­ors would likely find that the wo­man’s ac­tions were vol­un­tary. ...

Dav­id Hernan­dez was charged with per­jury and fil­ing a false re­port after he was ac­cused of fab­ric­at­ing the reas­on for a de­tain­ing a man he ar­res­ted for pos­sess­ing drugs. He pleaded no con­test to a mis­de­mean­or charge of fil­ing a false re­port. The Sher­iff’s De­part­ment handed down a 15-day sus­pen­sion, sher­iff’s re­cords show.

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Je­sus Valen­zuela Jr. was charged in 2013 with mis­de­mean­or bat­tery on a wo­man he was dat­ing, but pleaded no con­test to a less­er charge of van­dal­ism, ac­cord­ing to court re­cords. He was sen­tenced to two years of pro­ba­tion and ordered to com­plete a 10-week an­ger man­age­ment pro­gram. Valen­zuela ac­know­ledged his crim­in­al case to The Times, but de­clined to an­swer ad­di­tion­al ques­tions.

Times re­port­ers re­viewed a ver­sion of the roster from 2014 and scoured court and law en­force­ment re­cords for de­tails of how depu­ties landed on it

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Dav­id Vasquez was charged with 39 counts of il­leg­al gambling in 1999, court re­cords show. He pleaded guilty to six mis­de­mean­ors and was sen­tenced to four years’ pro­ba­tion. The case, along with a sep­ar­ate al­leg­a­tion that he wrote a false po­lice re­port, led to his fir­ing, the deputy said in a de­pos­ition. Vasquez also said he got his job back as part of a set­tle­ment that res­ul­ted in a 30-day sus­pen­sion.

Scott Maus was ac­cused of grop­ing a wo­man and en­ga­ging in sex acts with her in his patrol vehicle in the park­ing lot of the Puente Hills Mall, ac­cord­ing to a dis­trict at­tor­ney memo. The deputy ad­mit­ted to the en­counter in 2000 but said it was con­sen­su­al, the memo said. Pro­sec­utors de­clined to charge Maus with sexu­al as­sault, con­clud­ing that jur­ors would likely find that the wo­man’s ac­tions were vol­un­tary. ...

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Chris­ti­an Cham­ness was sus­pen­ded 25 days for writ­ing a false re­port and un­reas­on­able force, county re­cords show. The dis­cip­line stemmed from a 2007 in­cid­ent in which Cham­ness pep­per-sprayed an eld­erly man in the face and ar­res­ted him, claim­ing he the man had blocked the path of depu­ties and then ad­vanced on Cham­ness. The ac­count was con­tra­dicted by a se­cur­ity re­cord­ing that showed Cham­ness pep­per-spray­ing the 73-year-old man, who is not ...

In 1995, Ca­sey Dowl­ing was ac­cused of touch­ing the breast of a 14-year-old in his patrol car and in her bed­room, ac­cord­ing to a dis­trict at­tor­ney’s memo. Pro­sec­utors found there was in­suf­fi­cient evid­ence to charge him with a crime, but raised con­cerns about his cred­ib­il­ity, the memo shows. County re­cords say he was dis­charged for “im­mor­al con­duct” in 1997 but was re­in­stated after fil­ing an ap­peal with the county’s Civil ...

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**The use of coral for incident management signs was anticipated for inclusion in the 2003 edition of the MUTCD at the time of this printing.

Sign shape can also alert roadway users to the type of information displayed on a sign. Traffic regulations are conveyed in signs that are rectangular with the longer direction vertical or square. Additional regulatory signs are octagons for stop and inverted triangles for yield. Diamond-shaped signs signify warnings. Rectangular signs with the longer direction horizontal provide guidance information. Pentagons indicate school zones. A circular sign warns of a railroad crossing.

The moth­er of Ant­o­nio Ramirez’s daugh­ters al­leged years of ab­use at the hands of the deputy, and in­ter­views with the chil­dren cor­rob­or­ated some of the claims, ac­cord­ing to a 2013 dis­trict at­tor­ney’s memo. Pro­sec­utors de­clined to file charges, cit­ing a lack of phys­ic­al evid­ence. The Sher­iff’s De­part­ment handed Ramirez a 15-day sus­pen­sion for fam­ily vi­ol­ence. The wo­man was later awar­ded $185,000 in a civil suit filed against Ramirez.

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Jose Gonza­lez’s con­flict­ing ac­counts of a 2006 drug case led the Los Angeles County dis­trict at­tor­ney’s of­fice to drop drug charges against a wo­man ar­res­ted in Bell­flower, ac­cord­ing to a dis­trict at­tor­ney’s memo. Pro­sec­utors con­sidered fil­ing charges against Gonza­lez, but de­term­ined they had no cor­rob­or­at­ing evid­ence to prove he in­ten­tion­ally fals­i­fied a re­port.

Or­lando Ma­cias was off duty in 2010 when he called the lis­ted num­ber on a Back­page.com ad that prom­ised “FREAKY fun.” After speak­ing with “Krys­tal,” he entered a motel room only to be ar­res­ted in an Ontario Po­lice pros­ti­tu­tion sting, court re­cords show. Charged with so­li­cit­ing a pros­ti­tute and dis­turb­ing the peace, he pleaded no con­test to the lat­ter. He was sus­pen­ded 15 days for im­mor­al con­duct.

Dav­id Hernan­dez was charged with per­jury and fil­ing a false re­port after he was ac­cused of fab­ric­at­ing the reas­on for a de­tain­ing a man he ar­res­ted for pos­sess­ing drugs. He pleaded no con­test to a mis­de­mean­or charge of fil­ing a false re­port. The Sher­iff’s De­part­ment handed down a 15-day sus­pen­sion, sher­iff’s re­cords show.

The Los Angeles County Sher­iff’s De­part­ment keeps a secret list of about 300 depu­ties with his­tor­ies of dis­hon­esty and sim­il­ar mis­con­duct that could un­der­mine their cred­ib­il­ity when testi­fy­ing in court. The list is so tightly con­trolled that it can only be seen by a hand­ful of high-rank­ing sher­iff’s of­fi­cials. Not even pro­sec­utors can ac­cess it.

A fe­male jail vis­it­or said Abran Rodrig­uez asked her to show him her breasts. The deputy denied it, but in­vest­ig­at­ors cited mul­tiple wit­nesses and an au­dio re­cord­ing they said cor­rob­or­ated the claim, ac­cord­ing to court doc­u­ments. The Sher­iff’s De­part­ment no­ti­fied the deputy he would be sus­pen­ded for 15 days in 2011. He con­tested his dis­cip­line in court, but an ap­peals board has yet to de­cide wheth­er to re­duce the sus­pen­sion.

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Dur­ing an in­tern­al af­fairs in­vest­ig­a­tion, Jef­frey Moore ad­mit­ted to cut­ting up his wife’s blouse, wrest­ling with her over her cell­phone and threat­en­ing her with a steak knife, ac­cord­ing to a Sher­iff’s De­part­ment dis­cip­lin­ary let­ter filed in court. The de­part­ment handed down a 15-day sus­pen­sion in 2009 for fam­ily vi­ol­ence. Moore was tried twice and the second tri­al ended in a mis­tri­al. The charges were dis­missed.

After deny­ing he had any phys­ic­al con­tact with a wo­man he had been as­signed to pro­tect, Thomas Jensen brought along his pas­tor for a 2000 meet­ing with a sher­iff’s in­tern­al in­vest­ig­at­or and ad­mit­ted he had kissed the wo­man and al­ways wanted to see her breasts, ac­cord­ing to a dis­trict at­tor­ney’s memo. Jensen told The Times he was sus­pen­ded 30 days and de­moted from a patrol ser­geant to a jail deputy.

Jim­mie Pate com­plied when a ser­geant re­ques­ted to be writ­ten out of a 2001 ar­rest re­port about a couple caught smoking marijuana, ac­cord­ing to a dis­trict at­tor­ney’s memo. Pro­sec­utors de­nounced it as “an un­seasoned deputy’s fail­ure to stand up to the im­prop­er de­mands of his su­per­visor.” Pate was sus­pen­ded 10 days, dis­cip­lin­ary re­cords show.

Chris­ti­an Cham­ness was sus­pen­ded 25 days for writ­ing a false re­port and un­reas­on­able force, county re­cords show. The dis­cip­line stemmed from a 2007 in­cid­ent in which Cham­ness pep­per-sprayed an eld­erly Army vet­er­an in the face and ar­res­ted him, claim­ing the man had blocked the path of depu­ties and then ad­vanced on Cham­ness. The ac­count was con­tra­dicted by a se­cur­ity re­cord­ing that shows the 73-year-old man nev­er blocked the depu­ties or ...

While as­signed to Catalina Is­land in 2011, Wil­li­am Cor­d­ero wrote a false re­port that failed to men­tion a ci­vil­ian rid­ing in his patrol vehicle who wit­nessed a crime, ac­cord­ing to a sher­iff’s dis­cip­lin­ary let­ter. Cor­d­ero was sus­pen­ded 15 days. Cor­d­ero has al­leged in a law­suit that he was dis­cip­lined in re­tali­ation for com­plain­ing about a su­per­visor. His suit is pending.

Chris­ti­an Cham­ness was sus­pen­ded 25 days for writ­ing a false re­port and un­reas­on­able force, county re­cords show. The dis­cip­line stemmed from a 2007 in­cid­ent in which Cham­ness pep­per-sprayed an eld­erly man in the face and ar­res­ted him, claim­ing he the man had blocked the path of depu­ties and then ad­vanced on Cham­ness. The ac­count was con­tra­dicted by a se­cur­ity re­cord­ing that showed Cham­ness pep­per-spray­ing the 73-year-old man, who is not ...

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Timothy Ji­me­nez was in­vest­ig­ated for al­legedly tip­ping off the girl­friend of a drug deal­er about an in­vest­ig­a­tion in­volving an in­form­ant, ac­cord­ing to a dis­trict at­tor­ney’s memo. A pro­sec­utor de­clined to file charges, but sharply cri­ti­cized the deputy’s ac­tions as “po­ten­tially dan­ger­ous and life threat­en­ing” as well as “a blatant be­tray­al of his fel­low law en­force­ment per­son­nel,” the memo shows.

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Dav­id Jouzi in­sisted he had con­duc­ted a routine traffic stop when he pulled over a wo­man in Rose­mead and found a large quant­ity of methamphet­am­ine in­side her vehicle, ac­cord­ing to a dis­trict at­tor­ney’s memo. Only later, when he was about to testi­fy again in the case, did he ad­mit that he’d been work­ing with an in­form­ant to identi­fy the sus­pect and that the traffic stop was part of a set-up ...

The color of roadway signs is an important indicator of the information they contain. The use of red on signs is limited to stop, yield, and prohibition signs. A white background indicates a regulatory sign; yellow conveys a general warning message; green shows permitted traffic movements or directional guidance; fluorescent yellow/green indicates pedestrian crossings and school zones; orange is used for warning and guidance in roadway work zones; coral is used for incident management signs;** blue indicates road user services, tourist information, and evacuation routes; and brown is for guidance to sites of public recreation or cultural interest.

A lieu­ten­ant ordered John Sanc­hez to go back to a judge to ob­tain ap­prov­al to ex­ecute a search war­rant at night. In­stead, the deputy doctored a doc­u­ment that already had the judge’s sig­na­ture, ac­cord­ing to a dis­trict at­tor­ney’s memo. Sanc­hez was sus­pen­ded for false state­ments and false in­form­a­tion in re­cords, ac­cord­ing to sher­iff’s re­cords.

The Sher­iff’s De­part­ment found that An­drea Ce­cere made false state­ments and wrote a false re­port about a vi­ol­ent en­counter with an in­mate. Ce­cere re­por­ted that she was try­ing to hand­cuff an in­mate when he threatened her and swung an arm at her. The ac­tions, she said, led a male deputy to come to her aid and use force against the in­mate. But three oth­er depu­ties said the in­mate was already ...

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