Santa Barbara – Many believe that “any publicity is good publicity”, but Domonick Alonzo Love, 18, may currently believe otherwise.
Love, who has appeared on local area television and identified himself only as “Slim” to protest recent law enforcement crackdowns upon criminal transients, was identified by that nickname on the night of March 20th when when a 15-year-old female arrived at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital claiming she’d been raped. According to Santa Barbara Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Riley Harwood, the girl became intoxicated at a Santa Barbara Westside party attended by members of the area’s homeless community, where she was in the company of a young man she knew only as “Slim”, whom she claimed raped her that evening.
Based upon the victim’s description of her assailant, police investigators “immediately recognized the suspect as Love,” and then made the connection to “Slim” from his earlier television appearance, Harwood reported. The following day, SBPD Crimes Against Persons Detective Brian Larson obtained a $100,000 arrest warrant for Love…who proved difficult to locate despite law enforcement sweeps of known transient hangouts. Three days later, March 24th, however, Love was involved in a “disturbance” in the Santa Ynez area. When he was contacted by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies there, he was immediately recognized as wanted on the SBPD warrant and placed under arrest.
Love was booked into Santa Barbara County Jail on a no-bail hold where he was charged with rape by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear, rape by intoxication preventing the victim from resisting, and unlawful intercourse with a minor less than three years younger than the perpetrator.
Photo: Courtesy Santa Barbara County Jail Booking
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