Santa Barbara
Suspected armed robber found nursing wound at LA hotel
SANTA PAULA — Santa Paula police arrested Rosendo Lopez, 29, of Thousand Oaks on charges of armed robbery earlier this month. According to police spokeswoman and records supervisor Melissa King,
Tri-county meth-cocaine operation shut down
SANTA BARBARA — After four months of ongoing investigation, Santa Barbara County narcotics investigators succeeded Friday in shutting down a highly-organized and multi-level methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking operation that spider-webbed
Undocumented resident arrested for child abuse
SANTA BARBARA — Rocio Silva, 19-year-old mother of a six-week-old infant, was arrested on felony charges of child abuse following the serious injury of her baby early Wednesday morning. In
College student suspected of supplying mail order drugs
SANTA BARBARA — Suspected of plying his business studies toward an illicit drug trade, a city college student was arrested Tuesday on multiple trafficking charges. Throughout the month of June,
Pair of Santa Barbara graffiti suspects busted
SANTA BARBARA — A two-month-long investigation into the city’s upsurge in graffiti vandalism came to an end last Wednesday with the arrest of a pair of active criminally artistic suspects.
Seven-month hunt for drug dealer ends in Santa Barbara
GOLETA — A narcotics investigation lasting more than seven months concluded Friday with the arrest of 29-year-old Brandon Gaffke on charges of trafficking in methamphetamine and heroin. Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara pot dispensary busted
SANTA BARBARA — In the county’s ongoing campaign to bring the highest levels of law enforcement to bear upon the area’s controversial proliferation of illegally-operated marijuana dispensaries, city narcotics detectives
DNA breaks cold case in Santa Barbara
SANTA BARBARA — Almost three years ago to the day, the spectacular beachfront setting of Santa Barbara City College’s La Playa Stadium, home of the local Vaqueros footballers, was the
Muggers have busy night, end it behind bars
SANTA BARBARA — Violent crime in Santa Barbara got off to an early start this month with a pair of armed robbery incidents occurring within a three-hour period in the
Woman emerges from 101 wreck to be struck by suspected drunk driver
SUMMERLAND — A curvaceous stretch of Santa Barbara highway, as scenic as it is potentially treacherous, was the site of a wreck that left one woman critically injured and another