In a June 10 written statement the Farm Bureau of Ventura County “strongly condemns the actions taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Oxnard this morning. Reports indicate that ICE ...

A convicted rapist spray-painted swastikas in Ventura, then documented the hate crimes on social media to sow fear, police say.

The Ventura County, California Sheriff's Office was able to rescue a human trafficking victim earlier this month using a little known feature of its 911 system: texts.

Authorities on Sunday continued to search for an inmate who walked away from a kitchen post in Ventura Thursday night. The man, 31-year-old Jonathan Alfaro, was in custody for a property crime and ...

Sheriff's deputies with flashlights were combing areas near the Ventura County jail as a helicopter overhead aided the search for an escaped inmate.

An inmate in Ventura County escaped from jail while working on kitchen duty.

Inmate death at main jail A 46-year-old man died in Ventura’s main jail Sunday evening, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Rocky, a Labrador retriever, is helping inmates and staff at Ventura County Jail as the county's first emotional support-therapeutic K-9.

The Ventura County Sheriff's Office reported that an inmate passed away Sunday night after being found unresponsive in her cell.

A former Ventura County Sheriff’s Office deputy pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of engaging in consensual sexual activity with a female inmate, prosecutors said Thursday. Leonard ...

Three of the six inmates who escaped the Merced County Jail over the weekend have been caught, authorities say.

One of the six inmates who escaped from the Merced County Main Jail over the weekend has been captured. Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said Edgar Eduardo Ventura, 22, of Portland, Ore., was ...