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Santa Barbara

One Shot, Three Felonies for Lompoc man

Photo: Christopher Tyrese Maxwell Santa Barbara County – Isla Vista—home to thousands of seasonal UCSB students as well as long-time fun-loving permanent residents—may not have a reputation as the most

Ventura

Meth Dealing Foursome Busted

Photo: Maria Negrete Ventura County – Having recent arrest records and enjoying the relative freedom provided by the judicial system’s probation standards isn’t always enough to prevent some people from

Santa Barbara

Sex Offender Compliance Sweep Nets Seven

Santa Barbara County – California law dictates that when one is convicted of a sex crime, that individual’s name is entered into a local, state, and federal database. The purpose

Santa Barbara

Custody Deputies Charged with Sex Crimes Against Inmates

Photo: Salvador Vargas Santa Barbara – Considering the worldwide publicity surrounding the exploding #MeToo culture and the Harvey Weinstein media circus, the timing for the February 21st arrests of 47-year-old

Ventura

Firehoses and Dogs Flush Out “Armed” Suspect

Photo: Wheelock’s replica guns Ventura County – When uniformed Ventura Police Department officers were alerted to a report of an armed suspect hiding under a freeway overpass on the afternoon

Ventura

Burglars Busted for “Inside Job” at Domino’s

Photo: Angelina Perez Ventura County – The Santa Paula Domino’s Pizza Restaurant was discovered to have been burglarized in the pre-dawn hours of December 16, 2019 when store employees reported

Santa Barbara

Pair of Car Thieves Caught in Buellton

Photo: Jeffrey Stoltz Santa Barbara County – The inadequacies of public transportation locally may be what compelled a pair of car thieves to steal an Audi SUV from the UCSB

Santa Barbara

Traffic Stop Results in Carpinteria Drug Bust

Photo: John Scott Bavaro Santa Barbara County – Straddling the U.S. 101 freeway, the city calling itself the home of “the world’s safest beach,” Carpinteria is also becoming known as

Ventura

Arrested for Stabbing Sleeping Parents

Photo: Juan Tavares Ventura County – In what must have been a scene reminiscent of a cable TV horror movie, uniformed Oxnard Police Department patrol officers, rushing to the scene

Santa Barbara

Arrest Made in Double-Fatal Hit-and-Run

Phot: Eric Mauricio Ramirez Aguilar Santa Barbara County – In the early evening hours of February 9th, a 911 Emergency call brought Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department patrol units, SBCO