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Murder conviction for 'cold-blooded killer'

SANTA BARBARA – Confessed killer Garren Musser, 27, was found guilty Thursday of the October 2008 stabbing death of Lisa Zazueta, with a finding of special circumstances that guarantees him

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Father-son pot growers raided

GOLETA – Santa Barbara County sheriff’s authorities arrested a father and son last week at their Goleta home, site of a full-scale marijuana cultivation and sales operation. According to sheriff’s

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Beach locked down to ‘Floatopia’

  SANTA BARBARA – For the second consecutive weekend, Santa Barbara County sheriff’s officials enforced the closure of all public beaches in Isla Vista on April 9–10. According to Lt.

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Beach locked down to 'Floatopia'

  SANTA BARBARA – For the second consecutive weekend, Santa Barbara County sheriff’s officials enforced the closure of all public beaches in Isla Vista on April 9–10. According to Lt.

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Four gang members charged in stabbing

SANTA BARBARA – Four alleged “Westside” gang members, including two 17-year-olds who may be tried as adults, were arraigned Friday in Santa Barbara Superior Court for a violent stabbing while

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Inter-agency operation ruptures L.A.-Santa Barbara drug pipeline

SANTA BARBARA – Teamwork between the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency and sheriff’s departments from Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties resulted in the arrests last month of Edgar Conde Delgado,

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Carpinteria car chase comes to crashing conclusion

CARPINTERIA – A high-speed rain-slicked freeway chase late Sunday afternoon ended with a multi-car crash that sent four people to the hospital and resulted in the felony arrest of Santa

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Isla Vista confronts burglary plague

ISLA VISTA – Santa Barbara county sheriff’s officials this week announced the “Stop Burglaries in Isla Vista” initiative to confront a recent rash of residential break-ins and property thefts in

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DNA leads authorities to off-campus molestor

SANTA BARBARA – Three months after two sleeping women were sexually assaulted just outside the boundaries of the UC Santa Barbara campus, county sheriff’s officials arrested Quincy Lamar Brown, 19,

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Injunction marks shift in Santa Barbara’s gang fight

SANTA BARBARA — A controversial gang injunction complaint filed with the Santa Barbara Superior Court was made public Wednesday with the release of the names of 30 known Westside and