Jockey Orozco sentenced to 90 days in jail

ARCADIA, Calif. – Irving Orozco was sentenced to 90 days in jail this week after two warrants were issued for his arrest. The jockey had violated terms stemming from misdemeanor charges in the last two years, according to California Horse Racing Board officials and public records.

Orozco is believed to have not complied with terms stemming from a charge of driving under the influence issued in 2014. The terms of that penalty included community service and counseling.

Orozco, 21, is being held at Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. According to public records, Orozco could be released as early as March 15 after serving approximately half of his sentence. He was fined $300 by the court.

Orozco was arrested at 10:52 p.m. on Feb. 7 by the Baldwin Park, Calif., Police Department. Baldwin Park is approximately eight miles southeast of Santa Anita. Orozco has been arrested three times in the last two years, including by Baldwin Park police in August 2013 and by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. last March.

Earlier this week, Orozco appeared twice in court, where he was sentenced to 20 days and 70 days for violations. Full details of the court hearings were not immediately available.

In 2014, Orozco was arrested for driving under the influence, according to a racing-board ruling issued last summer. The jockey was fined $1,000 by Del Mar stewards Scott Chaney, Luis Jauregui, and Kim Sawyer last summer for failing to ride at Los Alamitos and Del Mar for three days in July.

Orozco was taken from Los Alamitos by a bounty hunter last July because of an outstanding bench warrant for his arrest for failure to appear at a court hearing related to a charge of driving under the influence last March, according to the racing board.

As part of the court’s ruling, Orozco was ordered to complete seven days of community service and had his driver’s license suspended.

Orozco has won 114 races in his career, including 10 on Quarter Horses. He has struggled at the current meeting, going winless in 19 mounts.