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Ventura

Drug Delivery Bust in Ventura County

Photo: Stock image We live in an era of unparalleled convenience where we can get 24-hour home delivery of hot, fresh pizza, summon an Uber ride by tapping our cellphones,

Santa Barbara

$500K Bail for Fatal Hit-and-Run Driver

Photo: Stock Image That is a cautionary reality that may have been ignored by 34-year-old Santa Barbara resident Salvador Jiminez at 2:00 a.m. on February 24th when he slammed into

Ventura

Farm Equipment Thieves arrested in Fillmore

Photo: Stock Image While large-scale modern agriculture involving multiple thousands of acres throughout the country now involves the use of every conceivable high-tech tool, smaller local agricultural enterprises still rely

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