Posts From F. Scott Faulkner

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Santa Barbara

Cops Ask for Public Help and Get It

Santa Barbara County – After a February 4th appeal for public assistance in locating a third suspect in a string of grand theft burglaries from multiple agricultural operations in Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara

K-9 Takes Bite Out of Tool Thieves

Santa Barbara – The Tajiguas Landfill, just north of the city limits in the unincorporated area of Santa Barbara County is hardly the place one thinks of as a viable burglary

Santa Barbara

18 Year-olds Arrested for Stabbing

Santa Barbara – Just after midnight on February 3rd, a downtown Santa Barbara intersection was the scene of violence between what appear to be warring factions of local area gangs. As

Ventura

Female Inmate Charged with Weapons Violation

Ventura County – On April 17, 2013, Silvia Serratos, 27, was arrested pursuant to evidence indicating that in October of 2012 she had left her 2 year-old son locked in her

Ventura

Clumsy Burglar Leaves His ID Card At the Scene

Ventura County – The communities of Ojai and Casitas Springs, nestled in the foothills above Ventura are hardly a hotbed of crime.  Neighbors know each other and visitors, while frequent, are

Santa Barbara

Pair of Rapists Jailed

Santa Barbara – Proving the truth of the lyrics to Huey Lewis’ 1985 song “Power of Love” (The power of love is a curious thing…It don’t need money, don’t take fame,

Ventura

Major Meth Importer Busted

Fillmore – Ventura County authorities, reacting to the heightened methamphetamine sales activities plaguing local communities in recent months, have been focusing lately upon large-scale interdiction efforts with the avowed objective of

Ventura

2012 Arson Investigation Ends with Arrest

Ventura – After an investigation lasting more than 17 months that began with a car fire that took place in August of 2012, Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Special Enforcement Unit Deputies

Ventura

Already in Jail and Arrested Again

Ventura – Santiago Hernandez, 21, may not subscribe to the premise that when things have gone badly, it doesn’t take much to make them even worse.  Evidence of that failing surfaced

Ventura

ID Thief Runs, Can’t Hide

Ventura County – An organized search for a suspected ID thief and forger who had been plying his illicit trade throughout the Camarillo area saw Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Special Enforcement