By Taylor Gutsche
Crime Voice Contributor
LOMPOC — Records from the past week show that fully one in four arrestees in the Lompoc vicinity were taken into custody for probation or parole violations, corroborating statewide reports of repeat transgressions amongst past offenders.
The terms are often used interchangeably in the vernacular, in part because both refer to the period during which convicts serve time under community supervision rather than in a prison cell. The Bureau of Justice statistics, however, carefully notes that the term “probation” is used when this option is prescribed in lieu of a prison sentence, while parole is granted to deserving inmates who have already served some part of an existing jail term.
Among the wayward probationers apprehended in the past week was 20-year-old Lompoc resident David Durollari. Durollari was arrested at his W. North Avenue residence on Sunday and earned one felony charge apiece for violation of probation and willful infliction of corporal injury on a spouse.
While cases like Durollari’s are both common and discouraging, Public Information Officer Ron Alonzo was confident in the Santa Barbara County Probation Department’s ability to keep its offenders on the straight and narrow.
“It is the goal of the Probation Department to provide effective community supervision,” Alonzo said. “Statistics show that nearly 60 percent of those on adult supervision in Santa Barbara County during the last fiscal year exited probation having successfully completed the terms and conditions of probation. The pending implementation of newly funded evidence-based programs is intended to assist in further improving these statistics by providing offenders with resources to assist them in their efforts to lead a law-abiding lifestyle.”
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s figures were similar, albeit less favorably presented, for Santa Barbara County parolees. Of the paroled felons released from prison for the first time in 2005, 41 percent were returned to prison within one year, according to a CDCR offender information report. Those numbers climbed to 57.5 percent and 62 percent, respectively, for the second and third years following release.
Other names that made their way back into the books this week with felony parole violations include Kenny “Crow” Arzate, a 32-year-old local who received an additional charge of felony narcotics possession, and Guadalupe resident Mark Anthony Montoya, also 32, who ran up three misdemeanor charges for Saturday’s alleged DUI, destruction of evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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