Posts From F. Scott Faulkner
Hit-and-run Causes School Lockdown
Washington Elementary School SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara’s Washington Elementary School—with perhaps the best ocean vistas of any elementary school in the state—was the site of a police-mandated lockdown on
$1 Million Bail for Alleged Burglary, Rape
Efren Manzano VENTURA COUNTY — The city of Santa Paula, once the locus of California’s booming 19th Century oil industry and now promoted by city fathers as “the citrus capital
Accident Kills Toddler, Father Busted on Weapons Violations
Anthony Baserra VENTURA COUNTY — When it rains, it pours. That may well be the feeling of 39-year-old El Monte resident Anthony Beserra, who was behind the wheel of his
Mr. & Mrs. Killers Caught
Jonathan David Highley SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — Perhaps subscribing to the principle that “love is blind” and that devotion to one’s spouse which it entails — even when that marital
Manslaughter Bust for Providing Heroin
Greg Ledbetter VENTURA COUNTY — Proving once again that persistent, ground-pounding detective work—while not nearly as cinematic as high profile car chases in pursuit of fleeing suspects—is often the undoing
Two Arrested for Assault on Deputy
Jared Ashton SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — Proving once again that bad things can happen when inebriation clouds one’s mental faculties, events transpiring in the early morning hours of March 1st
Domestic Dispute & Drug Arrest
Ed Lopez VENTURA COUNTY — As if it isn’t difficult enough to maintain a positive, rewarding, and loving home life where a man and a woman can live in mutually
Good Samaritan Helps Bust Sex Offender
Luis Borunda VENTURA COUNTY — The reality that the police can’t be everywhere to protect the citizenry from crime at all times became apparent once again in broad daylight on
K-9 Cop Nabs Barricaded Suspect
CARPINTERIA — Any dog thinking about enlisting for law enforcement duties with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department had apparently better be ready for action… and plenty of it. In
Charged with Murder in DUI Deaths
Cameron Oliver SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — 25-year-old Santa Maria resident Cameron Oliver had been out of custody after posting $100,000 bail following his arrest earlier in the month on charges
