Posts From F. Scott Faulkner
Bus Workers Caught Dipping Into the Till
Ventura County – In March, 2014, managers of Ventura County’s Gold Coast Transit—an Oxnard-based public transportation joint powers agency operating under the aegis of The State of California–became suspicious of an
Cannabis Cooker Caught by Cooperative Cop Corps
Ventura County – Ventura County Sheriff’s Narcotics Division deputies, working in close concert with members of the Santa Paula Police Department, and officers of the Oxnard Police Department lead a team
Rockett with a Loaded Gun
In the wee pre-dawn hours of December 8th, an observant Ventura Police Department patrol officer was cruising past Montalvo Elementary School just south of downtown Ventura when he spotted what
New Parolee Back in Custody for Robbery
Ventura – One would expect that anyone recently released from prison under the Post Release Offender Program created by Assembly Bill 109 and given strong approval by the state’s electorate in
Mail Thieves Caught
Santa Barbara County – What may have been an indication that someone was going on an early and seriously illegal Holiday shopping spree, in the last week of November, Santa Barbara
Public Helps Lasso Horse Tack Thief
Ventura County – Stealing a man’s (or woman’s) horse or the saddle attached to it used to be the kind of crime that would get a guy swinging from a tree
Wrongly Convicted Man Free After Serving 36 Years
November 24 – Ventura County – It’s a rare occasion indeed—and perhaps the perfect Thanksgiving story–when the wheels of justice grind to a halt and shift into reverse gear, but on
Drug Raid Nets Nine
November 26 – Santa Barbara – It’s common knowledge that being a residential landlord isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Sure, there’s the delight of receiving monthly income in
K-9 Catches Car Thief
November 25 – VENTURA After midnight on a Monday, the streets of Ventura normally carry only the lightest of traffic. Given that reality, any car cruising the city’s thoroughfares in
Carjacking Parolee Busted
November 22 – Santa Barbara County After one has been engaged in a criminal violation, arrested, jailed, tried in a court of law, convicted of that crime, sentenced to state prison
