Roll of Honor
Incident
Lieutenant Patrick Libertone suffered a fatal heart attack while making a traffic stop of a reckless driver who had cut him off at the intersection of 68th Street and Hammer Avenue in Eastvale, California.
He spoke to the driver briefly and was walking back to his patrol car when he collapsed on the sidewalk. An off duty paramedic who witnessed the incident immediately began offering aid but was unable to revive him. He was transported to Corona Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Lieutenant Libertone had served with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for 31 years and was assigned to the Fraud and Cyber Crimes Bureau.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and four children.
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- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
31 years. You could have gone home.
Lieutenant Libertone gave the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 31 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Los Angeles community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Libertone.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Lieutenant Patrick Libertone is one of 1,306 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 4% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In CA, 52 of 1,837 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 2.8% of this state's fallen. That is 1.2 percentage points below the national rate of 4%.
At Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept., 5 of 120 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 4.2% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Cardiac compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Patrick Libertone's cause is highlighted.
How Patrick Libertone Compares
When Cardiac Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Cardiac deaths across the full memorial record. Patrick Libertone is highlighted in Aug.
Incident Location
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