San Diego County Sheriff's Department

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy convicted of 16 felony counts related to rape and child molestation was sentenced Wednesday to 80 years in state prison.

Authorities continued their search Wednesday for a hit-and-run suspect that pinned a man underneath a truck in a retail parking lot in Vista.

SDSO said there was “lots of negotiation and de-escalation” with the man but about 15 minutes later, deputies opened fire and the man was struck by gunfire at least once, reports NBC 7’s Allie Raffa

SkyRanger 7 was overhead an investigation into a shooting in Vista. San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies opened fire on a man who was reported to have had a knife, the department said.

San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies are responding to an incident in Vista on Tuesday.

NBC 7’s Dana Griffin breaks down the charges filed against former deputy and Navy reservist Earle Daniel Yamamoto.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the Health and Human Services Agency’s Behavioral Health Services division, under an agreement announced Wednesday, will seek to develop a better way to provide behavioral and physical health services in the county’s seven detention facilities.

A death investigation was launched after a teenager at the Juvenile Detention Facility in Keany Mesa was found unresponsive in his room and later died.

Local leaders announced efforts to improve the mortality rate of inmates in San Diego County jails. NBC 7’s Allie Raffa has more on the program aimed to act as a remedy.

An 87-year-old Vista resident had to be rescued from her burning home Friday after her son allegedly set fire to the residence while high on some sort of drug.

Officials served search warrants at two unlicensed marijuana dispensaries Friday arresting 11 people and confiscating marijuana, THC-infused edibles and drinks, weapons and cash, authorities said.

The man operating the glider reportedly launched from the Blossom Valley area near Quail Canyon Road and flew to an area north of El Monte County Park, where he collided with a tree on the rock face of El Cajon Mountain.

NBC 7’s Dave Summers looks into the raw video released by the sheriff’s department on Thrusday.

After medical experts questioned the validity of a San Diego deputy’s alleged fentanyl overdose — footage of the incident was the subject of a PSA released by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department — Sheriff Bill Gore said he diagnosed the deputy’s supposed overdose, not a doctor.

A man who was killed at a nursery in San Diego’s North County over the weekend died from a stab wound to the chest, the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed.

NBC 7 has learned that both the 127th and 128th classes at the Miramar College-based public safety training program have been suspended following outbreaks of COVID-19 among its students and staff.

In an effort to raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department released body camera footage of a traumatic incident involving a deputy who became exposed to fentanyl while on the job.

San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore announced Thursday he will not seek election to a fourth term in the post next year.

The victim’s buried body was discovered on a property in Fallbrook July 21 and the property owner was arrested on suspicion of murder two days later

Seven inmates at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa were hospitalized after they were believed to have overdosed on fentanyl, authorities said.