[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E56-E57]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              HONORING THE RETIREMENT OF SGT. DARON WYATT

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                          HON. J. LUIS CORREA

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, January 17, 2020

  Mr. CORREA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the robust career 
and retirement of Sergeant Daron Wyatt. Sgt. Wyatt served over 33 years 
in law enforcement, the last 11\1/2\ with the Anaheim PD.
  In 1986, Sgt. Wyatt began his public service career with the Tustin 
PD. After a successful tenure with the Tustin PD, Sgt. Wyatt continued 
his career working for the Santa Ana Unified School District PD, 
Imperial PD, Placentia PD, and later Anaheim PD.
  While working for the Placentia PD in 1997, Sgt. Wyatt was assigned 
the Cathy Torrez Homicide Cold Case in 1994. Sgt. Wyatt worked the case 
for 10 years before convincing the DA's Office to prosecute. The case 
had been rejected by three different prosecutors and a memo from the 
Orange County Sheriffs Office opined the case would never be solved. 
The suspects were convicted in 2015.
  In 2011, Sgt. Wyatt was assigned as the lead detective on the Orange 
County Homeless Homicides Investigative Task Force. He obtained 
confessions from Itzcoatl Ocampo to the commission of six murders in 
Anaheim, Placentia, and Yorba Linda between October

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2011 and January 2012. Ocampo was the first serial killer known to 
operate in Orange County in more than 25 years.
  Sgt. Wyatt's homicide cases have been profiled on Dateline, True 
Crime with Aphrodite Jones, America's Most Wanted, Fatal Attraction, 
Criminal Confessions, Snapped, Blood Relatives, Murder by Numbers, 
Family Secrets, In Ice Cold Blood, and the premiere episode of Price of 
Duty.
  From 2015 to 2019, Sgt. Wyatt served as the Public Information 
Officer for the Anaheim PD and Anaheim Fire & Rescue, he represented 
the departments in local, national, and international news stories for 
such incidents as the KKK stabbings, the Donald Trump presidential 
campaign visit, multiple officer involved shootings, and the Canyon 
Fires.
  Sgt. Wyatt was also deployed as a PIO on Type 1 Incident Management 
Teams to the Mendocino Complex (largest wildfire in CA history) and the 
Camp Fire (most destructive wildfire in CA history). He is one of 70 
FEMA credentialed Master Public Information Officers in the nation and 
the only public safety PIO in California to receive this credential.
  Sgt. Wyatt will remain to be known for his unwavering devotion to 
victims' families.
  Please join me in honoring the storied career of Sergeant Daron 
Wyatt, who has significantly impacted our community and made it a safer 
place for all.

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