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Santa Barbara

$150K Warrant Leads to Wild Foot Chase

Santa Barbara – Santa Barbara Police Department detectives were on the lookout for Yuri Zhagari, 34, wanted on a $150,000 arrest warrant “related to drug charges”, according to SBPD Public

March 28, 2013
Santa Barbara

Infamous Local Slumlord Busted for Burglary

Santa Barbara – Dario Louis Pini, 63, has been in the Santa Barbara media lens for several years, having had a series of contentious encounters with zoning and health department

March 25, 2013
Ventura

Candy-Man Drug Dealer Busted

Ventura County –  Oxnard’s Rio Mesa High School was the scene of a Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Division investigation pursuant to the discovery of a 14-year-old female student “unresponsive

March 22, 2013
Santa Barbara

Spray-can Paint Strippers Surrender

A call to Santa Barbara County Sheriffs reporting a car vandalized by the application of a spray-on paint remover brought deputies to a north county residence as the midnight hour

March 22, 2013
Headline Story Ventura

Wait in the Car, Honey, Mommy’s Selling Meth

If you open your Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and look up “wacky-dangerous parenting,” you just might find a picture of Ilsa Maldonado, 42, of Oxnard, the mother of two children ages

March 21, 2013
Santa Barbara

Dinner Gets Deadly

A Saturday night family dinner in an upscale Santa Barbara home came to an abrupt halt well before it was time for dessert and coffee when Sam Wellington Maphis V,

March 21, 2013
Ventura

Teen Robbery Suspect Arrested

Austin Jacquemin, an 18-year-old with a colorful Facebook and MySpace identity as a hard-partying skateboarder, is new to the world of legal adulthood.  According to Ventura County Sheriff spokesman Sgt.

March 21, 2013
Santa Barbara

Five Bikers Busted

A “routine traffic stop”, as described by Santa Barbara County Sheriff Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover, which took place at the busy intersection of U.S. Highway 101 and Highway 154

March 21, 2013
Santa Barbara

OnStar Nabs Car Thief

Perhaps a more experienced car thief would not have made the fundamental mistake that David Daniel Peterson, 26, made on the morning of March 9th when he drove off in

March 21, 2013
Santa Barbara

Motorcycle Racer Arrested After Fatal Crash

Santa Barbara – Santa Barbara’s picturesque Foothill Road, an idyllic two-lane thoroughfare from where the glistening Pacific can often be seen in the distance, became the scene of a horrific,

March 8, 2013