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Visiting Chinese student bilked out of iPhone money

SANTA BARBARA — Authorities are hoping last week’s release of multiple surveillance images will help them find the person responsible for bilking a recently-arrived Chinese student out of $900 in

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Manhunt for Goleta highway shooter in progress

SANTA BARBARA — Taking the name of today’s holiday to heart, Santa Barbara County sheriff’s officials were still laboring on Monday to bring an armed highway robber to justice. Sept.

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Morning results in traffic mayhem throughout Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA — Three widely disparate Santa Barbara neighborhoods were the scenes of separate and remarkably bizarre traffic accidents on busy city streets Wednesday morning. At 6:53 a.m., a fully-loaded

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Cased closed on ‘Operation Apehanger’

SANTA BARBARA — The Aug. 17 sentencing of Alejandro Raya to eight years in state prison on three counts of possession of assault weapons and possession of controlled substances brings

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Cased closed on 'Operation Apehanger'

SANTA BARBARA — The Aug. 17 sentencing of Alejandro Raya to eight years in state prison on three counts of possession of assault weapons and possession of controlled substances brings

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Stolen firearms cache recovered in Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA — More than three dozen stolen guns have been seized and a pair of felony arrests were made Wednesday following a two-week investigation into a local residential burglary.

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Santa Barbara lewd act cases result in two arrests

SANTA BARBARA — Two separate suspects have recently been identified in independent cases involving lewd acts upon multiple victims throughout Santa Barbara County. In comments made to the media from

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Santa Barbara greenhouse site of record pot bust

GOLETA — Narcotics officials discovered greenhouse facilities housing more than 10,000 marijuana plants with a street value in excess of $40 million during an early-morning raid Thursday, ranking it as

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Decoy stings accused public masturbator

CARPINTERIA — An undercover sting operation resulted in the arrest of a suspected public masturbator last week in this small oceanside community. The plainclothes detective work followed a half-dozen citizen

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Marijuana a popular illicit crop in Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara County law enforcement agencies seized 80,000 marijuana plants in a six-day period last month, highlighting the prevalence of contraband agriculture in this coastal southern state region. Although