Photo: Kevin Rasmussen
January 18, 2022 – Santa Barbara County, Ca.
If the allegations filed against him by the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office prove to be true, 29-year-old Tustin, Ca. resident Kevin Rasmussen has been a very busy fellow over the months leading up to his January 13th arrest.
According to the Santa Barbara Deputy District Attorney Madison Whitmore, in August 2021 Rasmussen was the subject of “an investigation into large-scale fraud” and earned himself an arrest warrant leading to contact with Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s detectives who arrested him at his residence.
When detectives and deputies confronted Rasmussen in 2021, he was “sitting on a couch on top of a Sig P365 9-millimeter handgun, with bags of methamphetamine and heroin nearby.”
When he was taken into custody at the scene, Rasmussen indicated the pistol and the drugs, declaring “All those things are mine.”
Out on bail following that bust, Rasmussen failed to appear for his arraignment, earned a second arrest warrant for his troubles. That warrant was served on him while he was sitting in Los Angeles County Jail facing “more than a dozen” charges of identity and vehicle theft from dealerships in Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County in which he “took advantage of the county mask mandate to conceal his identity when purchasing high-end cars.”
Rasmussen was transported to Santa Barbara County Jail, where he faces a combined total of 18 fraud, firearms, and drug charges. He remains in custody with his bail set at $200,000.
Photo: Courtesy Santa Barbara County Jail Booking
