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Santa Barbara

Domestic Violence Leads to Standoff with Cops…and Arrest

Photo: Stock Image Uniformed deputies, K9 Units, and the Air Support helicopter team from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department all arrived in coordinated force in the Isla Vista community

Ventura

Technology Catches Serial Identity Thief

Photo: Stock Image Once a thief succeeds in a criminal endeavor, the apparent tendency is for them to repeat the same behavior with something akin to reckless abandon. That appears

Ventura

Illegal “Home Grow” Pot Growers Busted

Photo: Stock Image After a five month-long investigation prompted by what Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Sgt. Dan Ashmore reported as “received information,” two North Hollywood residents and brothers have

Ventura

Gang Graffiti Arrests

Photo: Stock Image Definitions of public art may vary with widespread acceptance of creative expressions that many would consider “low brow”, but the laws passed by the California legislature take

Ventura

$500K Bail for Firearms & Drugs Busts

Photo: Stock Image If there are any doubts about the proliferation of firearms in the hands of the wrong folks, the evidence leading to the arrests of 43-year-old Oxnard resident

Ventura

Escaped Prisoner Caught and Re-arrested

Photo: Stock Image In a case that may be attributed to the nation’s current low unemployment rate—good help being hard to find—on the evening of January 25, 2024 30-year-old Oxnard

Santa Barbara

Youth Tennis Coach Charged with Sex Crime

Photo: Stock Image A community populated by a sizeable contingent of high-caliber tennis aficionados, Santa Barbara tennis courts were the scene of the headline-grabbing arrest of 50-year- old Peter Albor

Santa Barbara

No-bail Hold for Sexual Assault Arrest

Photo: Stock Image The proliferation of social media platforms and their widespread use by school-age females apparently makes life a lot easier for those men who—artful in the ways of

Santa Barbara

$20K Bail for Illegal Pot Sales

Photo: Image of drug evidence In spite of the ever-widening legal acceptance of marijuana use and sales nationwide—no doubt aided and abetted by the pop-culture phenomenon of the “Potluck Dinner

Ventura

Felon Arrested with Gun and Drugs

Photo: Stock Image The La Jolla Canyon Trail running along U.S Highway 1 is among the more picturesque routes running through the California State Park on the coast of Camarillo.