LAX Police Chief Rhambo to Run for L.A. County Sheriff
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Rafu Wire and Staff Reports
LAX Police Chief Cecil W. Rhambo Jr. announced Monday that he will challenge Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva in next year’s election.
Cecil Rhambo Jr.
Rhambo was sworn in as chief of airport police on Nov. 6, 2019. He retired from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in 2014 at the rank of assistant sheriff. In his 33 years with the Sheriff’s Department, he developed expertise in areas including municipal patrol, emergency management, community partnerships and employee union relations.
As an assistant sheriff, his responsibilities included LA Metro’s rail and bus lines, experience that he said serves him well as Los Angeles World Airports builds an Automated People Mover train system, which will connect to Metro’s regional rail system when completed in 2023.
By City News Service
Apr 23, 2021
LOMITA (CNS) - Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department deputies exchanged shots with an assault suspect following a pursuit that ended in the Lomita area today, but no one was injured.
The suspect opened fire on deputies at some point after the pursuit ended and the deputies returned fire, CBS2 reported.
It was not immediately clear how or where the pursuit began, but it ended at about 3:30 p.m. in the 26600 block of Western Avenue, on the border of Lomita and Los Angeles, near Palos Verdes Drive, according to Deputy Grace Medrano of the Sheriff s Information Bureau.
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Updated on April 1, 2021 at 5:50 am
NBC News
A suspect who authorities said gouged at the eyes of a Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department deputy in Cudahy was shot and hospitalized Thursday morning.
Deputies from the East Los Angeles station responded about 9 p.m. Wednesday to a family disturbance call in the 5100 block of Live Oak Street, east of Wilcox Avenue, and talked with the suspect, who had reportedly been assaulting a family member, according to Deputy Eric Ortiz of the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get the latest breaking news and local stories.