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SLOPD release footage of Geezer bandit robbery

The San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) is releasing partial surveillance video footage of the Geezer Bandit robbery that occurred on Dec. 2. at the Higuera Street Bank of America.

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Female jogger assaulted

A female jogger was assaulted this morning as she was running on Vachell Lane off Buckley Road near the San Luis Obispo city limits. According to the San Luis Obispo

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Store owner arrested on weapons charges, selling alcohol to minor

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a rural Arroyo Grande store owner for selling alcohol to a 19-year-old undercover minor on Friday. Ghanem Melhem El Ayass, 52, owner of

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Teacher charged with spousal rape, abuse

A Cambria teacher is facing felony charges including two counts of a lewd act by a caretaker of a dependent, spousal rape, bodily injury of his spouse, and dissuading a

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Reward upped for drive-by shooting information

The San Luis Obispo County, Crime Stoppers Program has increased the reward in the Oceano drive-by homicide from $1000 to $5000. Information is needed regarding the person(s) responsible for the

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Man pays back judge with home burglary

A 31-year-old Los Osos man was convicted of robbing a judge who had previously sentenced him. Gary Aaron Lyons pleaded no contest this week in Superior Court on charges including

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Purse snatching couple cuffed by police

San Luis Obispo (SLO) Sheriff’s deputies arrested a duo who snatched a purse from a cart at Ralphs Market in Los Osos. Jeanna Marie Huss, 20 and Steven Levi Poole,

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Local Subway robbed at gunpoint; SLO police searching for suspect

A lone gunman robbed a San Luis Obispo Subway on Saturday. According to San Luis Police (SLOPD), the masked gunman entered the Marsh Avenue restaurant about 10 p.m. brandishing what

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Trial set for man accused of manslaughter of Paso Robles water pipeline workers

The families of the two men drowned during the construction of the Paso Robles water pipeline will see the man who is allegedly responsible face trial for involuntary manslaughter. Henry

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Two nabbed in drug lab bust

Two suspects were taken into custody by San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit detectives for running a drug lab. The sheriff’s department was conducting a rolling surveillance on a