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Tri-county meth-cocaine operation shut down

SANTA BARBARA — After four months of ongoing investigation, Santa Barbara County narcotics investigators succeeded Friday in shutting down a highly-organized and multi-level methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking operation that spider-webbed

Santa Barbara

Undocumented resident arrested for child abuse

SANTA BARBARA — Rocio Silva, 19-year-old mother of a six-week-old infant, was arrested on felony charges of child abuse following the serious injury of her baby early Wednesday morning. In

Santa Barbara

College student suspected of supplying mail order drugs

SANTA BARBARA — Suspected of plying his business studies toward an illicit drug trade, a city college student was arrested Tuesday on multiple trafficking charges. Throughout the month of June,

Santa Barbara

Pair of Santa Barbara graffiti suspects busted

SANTA BARBARA — A two-month-long investigation into the city’s upsurge in graffiti vandalism came to an end last Wednesday with the arrest of a pair of active criminally artistic suspects.

Ventura

100 cops raid suspected Santa Paula gangs

SANTA PAULA — Thousands of hours of dogged police work paid off June 11 with the arrest of more than a dozen suspected Ventura County gang members on parole, weapons

Santa Barbara

Seven-month hunt for drug dealer ends in Santa Barbara

GOLETA — A narcotics investigation lasting more than seven months concluded Friday with the arrest of 29-year-old Brandon Gaffke on charges of trafficking in methamphetamine and heroin. Santa Barbara County

Ventura

Car chase leads to island

SANTA PAULA — According to Santa Paula police records supervisor Dianne Miller, final reports have been compiled on evidence accumulated over the past week regarding an unusual car chase that

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara pot dispensary busted

SANTA BARBARA — In the county’s ongoing campaign to bring the highest levels of law enforcement to bear upon the area’s controversial proliferation of illegally-operated marijuana dispensaries, city narcotics detectives

Santa Barbara

DNA breaks cold case in Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA — Almost three years ago to the day, the spectacular beachfront setting of Santa Barbara City College’s La Playa Stadium, home of the local Vaqueros footballers, was the

Santa Barbara

Muggers have busy night, end it behind bars

SANTA BARBARA — Violent crime in Santa Barbara got off to an early start this month with a pair of armed robbery incidents occurring within a three-hour period in the