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Santa Barbara

Sobriety Checkpoint Snags 5, Cites 18

SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara County is not the place to even think “Maybe” when it comes to having a holiday cocktail and then hopping into your car. Proof of

Santa Barbara

Routine Traffic Stop Produces Guns, Money, & Drugs

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The Santa Ynez Valley, just a few miles north of Santa Barbara’s city limits, is distinctly different from its tourist-town neighbor in many respects.  Where Santa

Santa Barbara

Congresswoman’s Aide Charged with DUI Murder

Santa Barbara – Raymond Victor Morua, 32, recently disavowed by his former employer Congresswoman Lois Caps pursuant to his December 6th arrest for felony DUI hit-and-run as earlier reported here, has

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No Bail for Drug Sales to Teen

SANTA BARBARA – Just after noon on December 4th,  Santa Barbara Police Department Officers Woodill and DeJohn were on routine patrol in the vicinity of a local motel commonly patronized

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Wrong-way Driver Shot, Then Arrested

SANTA BARBARA – Weldon Patterson Fewell, 52, a resident of San Diego, was driving through the Santa Barbara area on a city street on the evening of December 4th.  While driving

Santa Barbara

Stabs Business Partner, Avoids Arrest by Jumping Off Bridge

Santa Barbara – Entrepreneurs don’t always have an easy time of it, as demonstrated by the bizarre events that transpired in the pre-dawn hours of December 2nd when Santa Barbara County

Santa Barbara

Jilted College Boy Turns to Felony Assault

SANTA BARBARA – Finding out your ex-girlfriend has a new love in her life is never fun, but when you forget the adage that “there are more fish in the sea,”

Santa Barbara

Congressional Aide to Rep. Lois Capps Busted for Hit-and-Run

SANTA BARBARA – Congresswoman Lois Capps has egg on her face and is working hard to distance herself from one of her staff members who was arrested in the early morning

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Bail Inflation and More Charges for Gangbanging Sexual Batterers

Santa Barbara – As reported here just this week, Edgar Jesus Rojas, 18, and Jose Angel Moran, 19, were arrested while hiding and resisting officers in a densely-populated Eastside residential

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Second Suspect in Chumash Stabbing Arrested

SANTA MARIA—Police found and arrested the second suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing and robbery on Nov. 6 at Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez. Investigators pinpointed Osvaldo Hernandez, 35,