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Routine Traffic Stop Produces Guns, Money, & Drugs

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The Santa Ynez Valley, just a few miles north of Santa Barbara’s city limits, is distinctly different from its tourist-town neighbor in many respects.  Where Santa

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Congresswoman’s Aide Charged with DUI Murder

Santa Barbara – Raymond Victor Morua, 32, recently disavowed by his former employer Congresswoman Lois Caps pursuant to his December 6th arrest for felony DUI hit-and-run as earlier reported here, has

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No Bail for Drug Sales to Teen

SANTA BARBARA – Just after noon on December 4th,  Santa Barbara Police Department Officers Woodill and DeJohn were on routine patrol in the vicinity of a local motel commonly patronized

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Hit-and-run Motorist Apprehended

SANTA MARIA – At 8 a.m. Tuesday, a female driving a white 1992 Ford Aerostar van struck a young woman who was pushing her 2-year-old daughter in a stroller and

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Wrong-way Driver Shot, Then Arrested

SANTA BARBARA – Weldon Patterson Fewell, 52, a resident of San Diego, was driving through the Santa Barbara area on a city street on the evening of December 4th.  While driving

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Stabs Business Partner, Avoids Arrest by Jumping Off Bridge

Santa Barbara – Entrepreneurs don’t always have an easy time of it, as demonstrated by the bizarre events that transpired in the pre-dawn hours of December 2nd when Santa Barbara County

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Jilted College Boy Turns to Felony Assault

SANTA BARBARA – Finding out your ex-girlfriend has a new love in her life is never fun, but when you forget the adage that “there are more fish in the sea,”

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Congressional Aide to Rep. Lois Capps Busted for Hit-and-Run

SANTA BARBARA – Congresswoman Lois Capps has egg on her face and is working hard to distance herself from one of her staff members who was arrested in the early morning

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Little Girl Gets Rude Awakening From Drunk Driver

SANTA MARIA — A drunk driver trying to evade police crashed into a 5-year-old girl’s bedroom Wednesday shortly after 9 p.m. The girl received minor injuries.

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Bail Inflation and More Charges for Gangbanging Sexual Batterers

Santa Barbara – As reported here just this week, Edgar Jesus Rojas, 18, and Jose Angel Moran, 19, were arrested while hiding and resisting officers in a densely-populated Eastside residential