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Man arrested for Intentionally Fatally running Wife down with Car

Photo: Stock Image East Mountain Drive in the foothills of Montecito is a quiet enclave of multi-million-dollar residences where automobile traffic is infrequent and spotty. One could walk for an

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Car Chase Racing “To See Mom” Ends with Arrest

Photo: Stock Image While U.S. 101 may provide some of the nation’s most scenic travel, it’s frequently the route used by criminals in their poorly-conceived efforts to escape cops who

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Tech Helps Nab Serial Bike Thief

Photo: Stock Image One of the most personally aggravating consequences of compliance with the precepts of “going green”—riding a bicycle instead of driving a piston-powered, gas-guzzling, fume-spewing motor vehicle for

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DUI Driver Arrested for Pulling Knife on Cops

Photo: Stock Image October 14, 2023 – Santa Barbara County, Ca. If there isn’t a sub-chapter in the Department of Motor Vehicle Driver’s Handbook about suggested driver behavior when dealing

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Shooter Arrested Seven Months after Murder

Photo: Image of suspect Kevin Medrano | Santa Maria PD Santa Maria Police Department Detectives have been hard at work since the late night of February 4, 2023 when gunshots

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Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested

Photo: Stock Image The likelihood that Goleta resident 19-year-old David Z. Rousso was driving under the influence on the afternoon of September 20th when the car he was driving ran

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Arrestee Busted Again for Smuggling Fentanyl into Jail

Photo: Drug evidence collected | Santa Barbara County Jail As if being arrested and booked on multiple violent offenses wasn’t enough to subdue his criminal instincts, on September 5, 2023,

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Woman Arrested after Stabbing and Standoff with Cops

Photo: Stock Photo On the morning of August 30th, Goleta resident 31-year-old Kebrina Alvarez was apparently at a loss for words during a dispute with a male acquaintance, so she

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Elderly Man arrested for shooting at teens

Photo: Stock Image The notion of mutual respect between the generations seems to have been absent on the afternoon of September 4th when Santa Barbara Police Department’s Dispatch Center received

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Driver in Fatal DUI Crash Arrested

Photo: Image of damaged vehicle  | Montecito Fire Department As if the traffic on U.S. 101 through Santa Barbara wasn’t difficult enough for drivers to navigate during the prolonged reconstruction