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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

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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

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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

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$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

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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

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Youth Tennis Coach Charged with Sex Crime

Photo: Stock Image A community populated by a sizeable contingent of high-caliber tennis aficionados, Santa Barbara tennis courts were the scene of the headline-grabbing arrest of 50-year- old Peter Albor

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No-bail Hold for Sexual Assault Arrest

Photo: Stock Image The proliferation of social media platforms and their widespread use by school-age females apparently makes life a lot easier for those men who—artful in the ways of

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$20K Bail for Illegal Pot Sales

Photo: Image of drug evidence In spite of the ever-widening legal acceptance of marijuana use and sales nationwide—no doubt aided and abetted by the pop-culture phenomenon of the “Potluck Dinner

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Million-dollar Bail for Accused Rapist and Attempted Murderer

Photo: Stock Image The quiet pre-dawn hours of January 10th at a popular traveler’s hotel in Goleta were shattered by the calamity of a noisy physical altercation between a male

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Strong-arm Robbery Arrest

Photo: Stock Image Violent crimes of any nature in the tony enclave of Montecito, just south of the City of Santa Barbara and home to major international celebrities and billionaires,