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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
Santa Barbara

18-year-old Learns Life Isn’t a Cop Show

Santa Barbara- In spite of the fact that it’s the home of a Federal minimum security penal facility, the community of Lompoc, situated between the much larger cities of Santa

March 8, 2013
Santa Barbara

18-year-old Learns Life Isn't a Cop Show

Santa Barbara- In spite of the fact that it’s the home of a Federal minimum security penal facility, the community of Lompoc, situated between the much larger cities of Santa

March 8, 2013
Santa Barbara

Downtown Hit & Run Driver Busted

Santa Barbara- In an incident uniquely unreported to the media, violent and deadly mayhem broke out in the middle of Santa Barbara’s busiest tourist and commercial district on March 1st

March 8, 2013