Authorities have identified suspects in a home invasion, including two injured in a Merced County deputy-involved shooting ...

Merced County Sheriff's Office officials report that on November 1st, 2025, at 1:23 a.m., Deputy Casas was patrolling in the area of Henry Miller, East of I-5 in Santa Nella, when he heard several ...

Atwater resident Rebecca Tucker, 47, speaks to the Merced County Board of Supervisors about her experience with the Merced County Sheriff’s Office after she and her husband were victims of alleged ...

Two men were arrested over the weekend after a deputy said one of them was shooting from a moving car while the other was ...

The Merced County Sheriff’s Posse rides down Main Street during the Merced Veterans Day Parade in Merced, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Andrew Kuhn [email protected] The Merced County ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The number of deputies continues to decline quickly at the Merced County Sheriff's Office. Last week, the department rolled out an online reporting system for ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Merced County Sheriff is demanding action from local leaders to hire more deputies. Sheriff Vern Warnke spoke at Tuesday's County Board of Supervisors meeting, ...

MERCED, Calif. -- Authorities in Merced County have arrested the brother of the suspected kidnapper after four abducted family members were found dead in a rural almond orchard in Northern California.

The County of Merced and the Merced County Deputy Sheriff’s Association have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that will be in place for one year. According to Deputy Sheriff’s ...

The injured suspects were transported to a local area hospital for treatment. A third suspect, identified as Roman Naranjo, 35, from Le Grand, was uninjured during the incident and was booked into the ...

In Merced County, which stretches from the Sierra Nevada foothills west across vast acres of orchards and farmland, Sheriff Vern Warnke increasingly finds himself the only law enforcement officer ...

Two suspects, Julian Urquizo and Nehemiah Urquizo, were shot by deputies in a Merced County shootout earlier this month and have been booked into the Merced County Jail, while the third suspect, ...