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Santa Barbara

Teen Driver Charged and Drug Felonies and Manslaughter

SANTA BARBARA — Kincaid Orosco, 18, has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter and a pair of felony drug charges pursuant to the tragic events that occurred in

Santa Barbara

UCSB Gang Rape Gets Massive Publicity & Police Effort

Santa Barbara – Daily media updates by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover point to the fact that the UCSB student body as well as citizens of

Santa Barbara

High School Basketball Coach Charged With “A Variety of Sexual Assaults”

Santa Barbara County – Brian Thomas Hook, 53, a social studies teacher and varsity girl’s basketball coach at Pioneer Valley High, apparently plays his own game without regard for the Rules

Santa Barbara

American Flag Vandal Arrested

Santa Barbara – With apparent disregard for the fact that he was potentially violating Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code regarding the proper care of the flag

Santa Barbara

Drug Suspect Turns Bike Thief

Santa Barbara County – Nicholas McCloud, a 28 year-old with documented criminal gang affiliation, has learned that he simply doesn’t have the athletic ability to successfully evade pursuing members of the

Santa Barbara

Waving Loaded Gun at Dog Earns Arrest

Santa Barbara – Phillip Edmond Cummings is apparently no “dog whisperer”, as evidenced by events transpiring in a mid-town Santa Barbara residential neighborhood in the late morning of February 18th. According

Ventura

$500K Bail for Coke-Molly Dealer

Ventura County – The Ventura County Interagency Pharmaceutical Crimes Unit, composed of representatives from the Simi Valley Police Department, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation, and the Ventura

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