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Jerry Ornelas was born and raised in Berkeley, California. He attended Oakland City College and UC Berkeley extension before becoming a police officer. He worked as an officer at Peralta College and joined the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) police department in 1973. He became an ID tech and then a detective. In this interview, Ornelas discusses his early life, education, career as a police officer with the EBRPD, major crimes and cases, a helicopter crash in 1974, a tailbone injury in 1976 that eventually led to his retirement in the early 1990s, and his post-retirement career as private investigator.

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Title
Jerry Ornelas: East Bay Regional Park District Parkland Oral History Project
Creator
Ornelas, Jerry, interviewee
Farrell, Shanna, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Oral History Center, 2020
Full Collection Name
East Bay Regional Park District Oral Histories
Subject (Topic)
Natural Resources, Land Use, and the Environment
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Oral histories.
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The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
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Jerry Ornelas, “Jerry Ornelas: East Bay Regional Park District Parkland Oral History Project” conducted by Shanna Farrell in 2018, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2020.
Interview date(s) 2018
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