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Quaid attorney steps down as warrant issued

SANTA BARBARA — Evi Quaid, 47-year-old wife of Academy Award-nominated actor Randy Quaid, failed to make another in a series of required court appearances Thursday, prompting Santa Barbara Superior Court

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Man escapes car stabbing

CARPINTERIA — Carpinteria resident Manual Lopez, 31, is being sought in connection with a stabbing assault just after midnight Thursday. Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call

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Judge declares mistrial in double homicide case

SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Brian Hill declared a mistrial Wednesday in the trial of defendant, 51, who stands accused of the shotgun murder of his brother

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Counterfeiters tracked to Solvang stores

SOLVANG — An at-large parolee was found in possession of counterfeit hundreds last Monday while attempting to pass the fake cash at multiple Solvang area retail businesses. Bryan Pelaez, 33,

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Suspected drug runner runs into arrest

SANTA BARBARA — Three months of investigation, followed by a sprinting foot chase in the early morning hours of Dec. 2, and Santa Barbara County narcotics detectives have busted an

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Homeland Security tips local cops to online porn trafficker

SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara County sheriff’s detectives arrested Sean Sidney, 24, on charges related to trafficking in child pornography on the internet last month. Sheriff’s spokesman Drew Sugars said

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Santa Barbara college students linked to drug sales

SANTA BARBARA – A pair of undergraduate students at UC Santa Barbara were arrested late last month on suspicion of dealing drugs. The Nov. 30 arrests of Paul Frank and

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Marijuana trafficker linked to legal dispensary

GOLETA — Narcotics detectives took a 36-year-old Goleta resident into custody two weeks ago on multiple marijuana trafficking charges. Jason James Bell, 36, was arrested Nov. 19 by Santa Barbara

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Serial rapist cuts plea deal for 17-year sentence

SANTA BARBARA — A serial molester and rapist pleaded guilty last week in Santa Barbara Superior Court to nine felony counts in exchange for a sentence of 17 years and

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Meth lab dump seized

SANTA BARBARA — Los Padres National Forest construction crews alerted Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies last week when they discovered what appeared to be the remnants of an active methamphetamine