Honorico Named to Sheriff’s Dept. Post

Twenty-year Sheriff’s Department veteran Dante Honorico has been promoted to chief deputy.

The promotion, which will be effective at the end of June, puts the 50-year-old Honorico into the executive command level of the department.

He probably will take over the department’s support services division, overseeing personnel, internal affairs, records, the academy and the business office.

Replacing retiring Chief Deputy Don Lanquist, Honorico will be one of four chief deputies in the department serving directly under Sheriff Larry Carpenter.

“I have profound respect for Chief Honorico’s ability as a leader, not only in the Sheriff’s Department, but also in the community of Ventura County that we serve,” Carpenter said in a prepared statement.

Honorico, a native of the Philippines who came to the United States in 1975, joined the department in 1976 and became a U.S. citizen six years later.

He has served in every division in the department and was instrumental in the construction of the Todd Road Jail, said Capt. Mark Ball.

Most recently, Honorico has worked in the department’s sentencing facilities and headed the department’s employee relations committee.