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Santa Barbara

Two arrests in two months for purported drug dealer

SANTA BARBARA — Arrested last month on multiple drug charges, a 29-year-old man found himself in cuffs again on Tuesday, along with several alleged associates. Brandon Gaffke was first apprehended

Santa Barbara

Deadlocked jury leads to mistrial in Santa Barbara murder case

SANTA BARBARA — Following a month-long first-degree murder trial featuring multiple defendants, a deadlocked jury forced Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Brian Hill to declare a mistrial last week. The

Los Angeles Santa Barbara

Suspected armed robber found nursing wound at LA hotel

SANTA PAULA — Santa Paula police arrested Rosendo Lopez, 29, of Thousand Oaks on charges of armed robbery earlier this month. According to police spokeswoman and records supervisor Melissa King,

Kern San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara

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