Posts From F. Scott Faulkner
SWAT Cops Burn Barricaded Suspect Out
Eddie Dominguez SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The Laws of Unintended Consequences may have been at play in the morning hours of November 16th when Santa Maria Police Department’s SWAT Team
DUI Suspect Arrested at Gunpoint
Damian Gomez GOLETA — As the holiday season approaches, the perils of alcohol consumption as a precedent to operating a motor vehicle could not have been made more manifest than
DUI with Critical Injuries Arrest
Sonny Ramos Oxnard Police Department officers responding to an accident scene in their city on November 7th had little difficulty determining whether or not to take 37-year-old Oxnard resident Sonny
Car Thief Attempts to “Swim for It”
Photo of Hale’s arrest Perhaps it’s the allure of the azure Pacific that has recently enticed a handful of aquatically-minded individuals with a sincere desire to avoid contact with law
Resisting Arrest by Swimming Away
Ventura Pier Some criminals make no bones about the fact that they’ll do just about anything to avoid being arrested and going to jail. Michael Hernandez, a 35-year-old resident of
Citizen Pursues Vehicle-Tampering Suspect
Proving once again that an alert public is the best defense against random crime throughout local communities, the October 28th arrest of 37-year-old Michael Barnett, a known Ventura area transient,
Gas Station Employee Arrested for Workplace Rape
Josue Emanuel Torres Santa Barbara Police Department detectives, upon receiving a report of an alleged rape occurring two days earlier, rolled up to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department Carpinteria
DUI Suspect Arrested & Charged in Fatal Crash
Spring Abigail Morrissey SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office announced that charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated with gross negligence and driving under the influence
Probation Violator Chased, Caught, Busted
VENTURA — It may be the pleasant Mediterranean climate, the plethora of public parks and facilities, or the easy access to social services, but the city of Ventura continues to struggle
Vagrant Arrested for Sexual Battery
Main Street in Ventura VENTURA — The streets in the busy commercial area of the city of Ventura usually quiet down in the evening hours once the area’s retail stores
