That dual use also makes it unusual: Only three of the Bay Area’s nine sheriff’s offices have a helicopter, and Contra Costa County is the only one using that aerial support for vegetation ...

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif ... The county helicopter also had a limited number of days and hours of availability because the sheriff's office had to balance the needs of its primary law ...

The helicopter is paid for and the crew is ... transporting Con Air 1 and another craft operated by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, which the fire district used to rely on, is that ...

A former Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced ... a water patrolman and a tactical flight officer for a helicopter unit. His law enforcement career ended in June 2022, months ...

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY – The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office announced that it is facing a growing backlog of concealed weapons permit applications, in the wake of a recent decision by the U.S ...

Police groups have poured more than $250,000 into defeating Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton since her office’s successful prosecution and conviction last fall of a sheriff’s deputy ...

MARTINEZ — A former Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputy who allegedly stole an Antioch man’s firearm and kept judges’ e-signatures in his patrol car without permission pleaded no contest ...