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The owner told deputies no one should be living there and they had heard "strange noises" coming from the space before.

In August, USA Today reported that ICE sent an email solicitation to deputies nationwide, leading the head of the National Sheriff’s Assn. to call the move “either galactically stupid or purposefully malicious.”

Deputies were contacted after 11 p.m. by a witness who told deputies they had spotted a man parking his car and walking behind a building.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has relieved three deputies of duty while it investigates the circumstances of the bloody beating of a Valencia man outside a Santa Clarita bar last year.

Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were taken to the hospital Sunday after their patrol car was struck by another motorist, who attempted to flee the scene, authorities said.