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I made a youtube video about my book. Explaining that it is a true story of my time as a real deputy. Not to be confused with the tv show DEPUTY. The show takes place at the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. The deputies in the show are actors and portray fictional stories. My stories are real, and I was a real deputy for the L.A. Sheriff’s Department. Check out the video HERE.

I was the field Sergeant. But I wanted to be in on the action with the deputies. Twenty seven years of patrol assignments was not enough. I was an adrenaline junky. 

We ran the plate; as soon as the dispatcher asked our status re the 10-29Victor FD (stolen car used in an armed robbery), the chase was on. I was driving while trainee Tim Anderson called the pursuit. I was right on the bumper of the hot rod lincoln as we made the turn on to 130th street from Willowbrook ave. Two guns flew out of the passenger window as we crossed Aranbe at about 100 mph. I told Tim, “They’re not going to make the turn at Wilmington Avenue. They didn’t, hitting the median. The driver rolled out and pointed a handgun in my direction as he ran around the door to flee across Wilmington Avenue. I don’t remember getting out and drawing my Beretta before firing four shots at the driver. The Watch Commander rolled, I don’t know if he questioned whether I really saw a gun, or he was just upset that it was a non-hit shooting he had to handle. Two hours later, the K9 unit located the driver in the containment who luckily for me still had the loaded handgun and stolen watch from the robbery still in his pocket. Pictured are the Sheriff’s car and suspect vehicle as they were at the end of the pursuit.

I arrived in the pitch black dark of night, Imperial Courts housing, Watts. The suspect was dead, this Mac10 lying next to his body. The assistance request by my former trainee and her partner was a foot pursuit, and a 998 (Deputy involved shooting). The suspect rounded the corner of a building and the deputies heard a thud and the scrape of metal. The suspect had fallen and the Mac10 scraped against the sidewalk. When the deputies rounded the corner the suspect was sitting up and raising the Mac10, his last action as a live person. The deputy who had survived three such armed encounters, bought the book and this is how he wanted it signed: “As friends and partners we persevered. Through blood, sweat and tears we would toe the line, and had each others back. In the end, we survived and that is what mattered.” A great gift hearing from this deputy and knowing he was alive and well enjoying retirement.