Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

A new threat-based phone scam is circulating the city, and the callers are impersonating Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department personnel.

Ryan Clinkunbroomer, a 30-year-old, third-generation deputy who was only recently engaged to be married, was laid to rest in a private ceremony Wednesday.

Three suspects who authorities say are part of a burglary crew targeting residential neighborhoods and retail stores throughout Los Angeles County were in custody.

The mother of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, who was killed while he sat in his patrol car on Sept. 16 in Palmdale, said she's outraged that LA County District Attorney George Gascón will not seek the death penalty against the suspect.

The LASD joined the Board of Supervisors at a meeting Tuesday to discuss plans to use new grant funding to address organized retail theft.

Ryan Clinkunbroomer was shot and killed in an ambush attack on Sept. 16. The Dolphins dropped 70 points after honoring the fallen deputy.

Spitzer called Gascón's announcement of the charges as "callous" toward the grieving family.

Brittany Lindsey got engaged to Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer just four days before he was shot and killed while sitting in his patrol car outside the Palmdale Sheriff's Station.

On Wednesday, 29-year-old Kevin Salazar, the man suspected in the ambush killing of LASD Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer in Palmdale, was charged with murder and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Authorities arrested 29-year-old Kevin Salazar in connection with the ambush-style shooting death of LASD Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer in Palmdale.

Thirty-year-old Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer was on duty sitting in his patrol car when another car drove up alongside his, and shot him, authorities said. He died at the hospital.

The suspect who was shot and killed by deputies in Hacienda Heights fatally stabbed his father moments earlier, officials said.

A standoff came to an end Tuesday afternoon in the City of Industry where a suspect barricaded himself inside a car wash for hours.

Gregory Davis is accused of pulling the limp body of another LASD officer out of a patrol car after a crash last August, and trying to move the patrol car from the crash scene.