LA sheriff Alex Villanueva appears headed for runoff election amid series of scandals

Law enforcement officer, derided by critics as the ‘Donald Trump of LA’, did not win enough votes for re-election, early results show

Alex Villanueva, the Los Angeles county sheriff embroiled in multiple scandals, appears headed for a runoff election in November as early results suggest he failed to win enough votes to secure re-election.

Villanueva, who has been derided by critics as the “Donald Trump of LA”, is likely to face off with Robert Luna, the former police chief of Long Beach. Luna was endorsed by the LA Times and LA Daily News editorial boards, which argued that the embattled agency needed an outsider to take over, though Luna’s police department also faced controversies.