Rowland Heights, like neighboring Hacienda Heights, is not a city. It is an unincorporated community of Los Angeles County — no city hall, no city council, and no Rowland Heights Police Department to call.

But it is not policed the same way as Hacienda Heights, and that catches people out.

Two neighboring communities, two different stations

There is no Rowland Heights Police Department, because Rowland Heights is not a city. It is policed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department from the Walnut/Diamond Bar Station, 21695 E. Valley Boulevard, Walnut, CA 91789. The Sheriff lists that station as serving the City of Walnut, the City of Diamond Bar, Rowland Heights, and the unincorporated areas of Covina Hill and West Covina.

The station publishes two separate lines — Walnut (909) 595-2264 and Diamond Bar (626) 913-1715. Either will reach the station that covers a Rowland Heights arrest.

Hacienda Heights, immediately to the west, is covered by the Sheriff’s Industry Station instead. Two adjacent unincorporated communities, both sheriff-policed, but handled from two different stations. If you are unsure which side of the boundary the arrest happened on, say so — it decides which station holds the paperwork.

Where someone is held

Los Angeles County books men and women into different facilities, which is one reason families are told there is no record of their relative. Our find an inmate guide explains how to search each system, and our Los Angeles County jails page covers how county custody works. Men are processed at the Inmate Reception Center in downtown Los Angeles — 24-hour intake (213) 473-6080. Women are held at the Century Regional Detention Facility, 11705 S. Alameda Street, Lynwood — (323) 568-4500.

There is no local municipal jail for an unincorporated community, so the county route is the only route.

Which courthouse

• Superior Court of Los Angeles County, East District
• The district’s courthouses are Pomona South, West Covina and El Monte

Confirm the specific courthouse against your paperwork before traveling, or ask us to check.

Local geography worth mentioning

Rowland Heights sits along the 60 freeway with the 57 close by, and is one of the most linguistically diverse communities in the county — a very large share of households speak a language other than English at home, with substantial Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Spanish-speaking populations. If language is going to make an already difficult conversation harder, raise it at the start of the call rather than halfway through paperwork.

Our nearest office to Rowland Heights

American Freedom Bail Bonds has no Los Angeles County office. Our three physical offices are Anaheim, Brea and La Habra, all in Orange County. Rowland Heights is a service area we cover from our our bail bonds office in La Habra, which sits directly on the county line.

Paperwork can be completed electronically and posting happens at whichever facility holds the person, so an agent can meet you at the courthouse or the jail without you coming to an office first.

Charges we are called about

• Warrants — in Los Angeles County a warrant is one of the situations where a bond is genuinely required, because the release protocols address arrest without a warrant.
• Domestic violence — Penal Code section 1270.1 requires a hearing in open court, on two court days’ written notice, before release on own recognizance or at a non-schedule amount for certain of these charges. That is state law and applies here as everywhere in California.
• Felony charges — where the serious-or-violent test decides whether the protocols apply at all.
• DUI, drug charges and misdemeanors — frequently within the protocols, so ask before assuming.
• All bail services and payment plans.

Nearby areas we serve

• Hacienda Heights — adjacent, unincorporated, but a different sheriff’s station
• Walnut and Diamond Bar — same Walnut/Diamond Bar Station
• La Puente — to the north-west
• Brea — our office, south over the Orange County line

See also Los Angeles County bail bonds and our service areas.

The full Rowland Heights bail resource network

Most bail websites give you a phone number and nothing else. Below is everything that actually governs a Rowland Heights case — where the person is held and for how long, where the bail figure comes from, and the process that controls when they walk out.

Where a Rowland Heights arrest is held, and for how long

The Board of State and Community Corrections classifies the LASD Walnut Station Jail (facility 1850) as Type I. Under Title 15 § 1006 that means not more than 96 hours, excluding holidays, after booking. The J suffix is the part almost no bail site explains: it means the facility is separately approved to hold minors, and a minor held there is not in the adult bail system at all — there is usually no bail amount to post.

Los Angeles County sets bail differently — and that changes what you should do first

This is the single most important thing to understand about a Rowland Heights arrest. Los Angeles County releases many non-violent, non-serious arrests before arraignment at $0 bail, with no bond and no premium. It also publishes no inmate record at all for roughly the first two hours after an arrest, so an empty search result usually means the booking is not finished — not that the person was released or taken elsewhere. Paying anyone before you know which category the case falls into is how people spend money they did not need to spend.

The clock, hour by hour

Before you pay anyone

Where a Rowland Heights case is heard

Court assignment follows the city of arrest and the charge that is ultimately filed, and the Los Angeles County Superior Court publishes no public city-by-city criminal assignment table. We will not guess at yours: the release paperwork names the actual courthouse, date and time, and that document governs. Use it, and check the date independently before relying on anything else.

See every Los Angeles County courthouse we cover, how to find a court date, and what happens if that date is missed.

Common questions

What is the Rowland Heights Police Department number?

There isn’t one. Rowland Heights is unincorporated and policed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff from the Walnut/Diamond Bar Station.

Is it the same station as Hacienda Heights?

No — and this trips people up regularly. Hacienda Heights is covered by the Industry Station; Rowland Heights by Walnut/Diamond Bar. Adjacent communities, different stations.

Where would my relative be held?

County custody: the Inmate Reception Center downtown for men, Century Regional in Lynwood for women. There is no local jail.

Is help available in another language?

Raise it when you call. Given how many households here speak a language other than English at home, it is a practical issue worth sorting at the start rather than mid-paperwork.

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Please note: American Freedom Bail Bonds is a licensed bail bond agency, not a law firm. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and we cannot guarantee a bail amount, a release time, eligibility for release, or the outcome of any case. Los Angeles County release rules changed substantially in October 2023, and court and jail information can change — always confirm details directly with the facility or the court. California bail license 1841014.

Domestic violence arrests in Rowland Heights

Domestic violence is the charge type where the rules genuinely differ, and it is worth understanding before you start making calls. Under Penal Code § 1270.1, these offenses require a hearing in open court before anyone can be released on their own recognizance or at any amount other than the published scheduled figure. That rule is statewide, so it applies to a Rowland Heights arrest handled by the Sheriff exactly as it would in Orange County.

In practice it splits into two situations. If you post the scheduled amount, release can move on the facility’s normal timetable, even at 3am on a Sunday. If you are hoping a judge will lower the figure, that waits for a court day — and a Friday night arrest can mean the whole weekend. Families who do not know this sometimes sit through a weekend when release was available the entire time.

Our domestic violence bail page lists the current scheduled amounts by charge and explains the protective order that takes effect the moment someone walks out. The individual charges are covered on PC 273.5 corporal injury, PC 243(e)(1) domestic battery and PC 273.6, which is the second arrest that catches families out days after the first.

What to do in the first hour

The single most useful thing you can do is stop guessing and find out two facts: which facility is holding them, and what the booking charge actually says. Both are free for us to check and take a few minutes. Everything else — the amount, the timeline, whether a bond is even needed — depends on those two answers.

Because Rowland Heights is unincorporated, the answer is county custody rather than a city jail, and that has its own timetable. Tell us it is Rowland Heights when you call and we will go straight to the right station rather than hunting for a police department that does not exist.

We work from three 24-hour offices. La Habra bail bonds is the closest to you, with Brea and Anaheim a little further south. We also cover neighboring Hacienda Heights, Diamond Bar, Walnut and La Puente, and post bail throughout Los Angeles County.