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Marijuana trafficker linked to legal dispensary

GOLETA — Narcotics detectives took a 36-year-old Goleta resident into custody two weeks ago on multiple marijuana trafficking charges. Jason James Bell, 36, was arrested Nov. 19 by Santa Barbara

December 1, 2010
Santa Barbara

Serial rapist cuts plea deal for 17-year sentence

SANTA BARBARA — A serial molester and rapist pleaded guilty last week in Santa Barbara Superior Court to nine felony counts in exchange for a sentence of 17 years and

November 30, 2010
Santa Barbara

Meth lab dump seized

SANTA BARBARA — Los Padres National Forest construction crews alerted Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies last week when they discovered what appeared to be the remnants of an active methamphetamine

November 12, 2010
Santa Barbara

Liquor store robber stabs clerk, sends schools into lockdown

CARPINTERIA — A botched liquor store robbery left one store clerk with multiple stab wounds and put area schools in lockdown until authorities caught up with the believed assailant Monday

November 11, 2010
Santa Barbara

Teens arrested for beating fellow student

CARPINTERIA — Three high school students were arrested Friday morning, a day after they allegedly beat a fellow teen into unconsciousness using their fists, feet and a souvenir-style baseball bat.

November 11, 2010
Mrs. Randy Quaid skips $500k bail
Celebrity News Santa Barbara

Mrs. Randy Quaid skips $500k bail

SANTA BARBARA — A Hollywood star’s wife is in further trouble with the law for not wanting to leave her husband’s side. On Nov. 4, both Academy Award-nominated film star

November 7, 2010
Santa Barbara

Driver in deadly wreck released from hospital, booked in jail

SANTA BARBARA — A woman suspected of sparking a deadly crash in Santa Barbara last month while intoxicated was released from the hospital Oct. 27 and booked into county jail.

November 4, 2010
Santa Barbara

Woman linked to Santa Barbara beach murder granted temporary release

SANTA BARBARA — A Santa Barbara County judge granted temporary release to a woman linked to a violent April murder and who lists herself as a “drug dealer” on her

November 3, 2010
Quaids seek asylum in Canada from ‘Hollywood star-whackers’
Celebrity News Santa Barbara

Quaids seek asylum in Canada from ‘Hollywood star-whackers’

SANTA BARBARA — Oh Canada, you’re good enough for the Quaids. In the latest wrinkle of an increasingly bizarre celebrity scandal, Academy Award-nominated actor Randy Quaid, 60, and his wife

October 27, 2010
Santa Barbara

Quaids seek asylum in Canada from 'Hollywood star-whackers'

SANTA BARBARA — Oh Canada, you’re good enough for the Quaids. In the latest wrinkle of an increasingly bizarre celebrity scandal, Academy Award-nominated actor Randy Quaid, 60, and his wife

October 27, 2010