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Santa Barbara

Juvenile Behind Bars for Knife Attack

Photo: Stock Image As this report is being filed, “alerts” have just been broadcast throughout the Goleta area announcing yet another campus shutdown at San Marcos High School as Santa

Santa Barbara

Arrests Made in Two-year-old “Whodunit” Murder

Photo: Stock Image Nearly two years ago, on May 27, 2022, 96-year-old Montecito resident Violet Evelyn Alberts was “found dead” in her bed by her caretaker, 46-year-old Porter Ranch resident

Santa Barbara

Felony Manslaughter Charged Six Months After Fatal Crash

Photo: Stock Image Three hours after the midnight hour on the Sunday morning of August 13, 2023, traffic in the U.S. 101 southbound lanes through Montecito were almost devoid of

Ventura

Drug Delivery Bust in Ventura County

Photo: Stock image We live in an era of unparalleled convenience where we can get 24-hour home delivery of hot, fresh pizza, summon an Uber ride by tapping our cellphones,

Santa Barbara

$500K Bail for Fatal Hit-and-Run Driver

Photo: Stock Image That is a cautionary reality that may have been ignored by 34-year-old Santa Barbara resident Salvador Jiminez at 2:00 a.m. on February 24th when he slammed into

Ventura

Farm Equipment Thieves arrested in Fillmore

Photo: Stock Image While large-scale modern agriculture involving multiple thousands of acres throughout the country now involves the use of every conceivable high-tech tool, smaller local agricultural enterprises still rely

Santa Barbara

Domestic Violence Leads to Standoff with Cops…and Arrest

Photo: Stock Image Uniformed deputies, K9 Units, and the Air Support helicopter team from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department all arrived in coordinated force in the Isla Vista community

Ventura

Technology Catches Serial Identity Thief

Photo: Stock Image Once a thief succeeds in a criminal endeavor, the apparent tendency is for them to repeat the same behavior with something akin to reckless abandon. That appears

Ventura

Illegal “Home Grow” Pot Growers Busted

Photo: Stock Image After a five month-long investigation prompted by what Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Sgt. Dan Ashmore reported as “received information,” two North Hollywood residents and brothers have

Ventura

Gang Graffiti Arrests

Photo: Stock Image Definitions of public art may vary with widespread acceptance of creative expressions that many would consider “low brow”, but the laws passed by the California legislature take