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Ongoing Maritime Invasion Leads to More Drug Busts

June 18 – Santa Barbara County Yet another panga boat full of drugs made its way from Mexico to the shores of California’s Gold Coast on June 15th. According to

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Target of Police Manhunt Apprehended

Jun 14 – Santa Barbara County Jonathan Hays, 24, led Santa Maria Police and Santa Barbara County Sheriffs on a 90-minute chase through north county residential neighborhoods as he sought

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Jr. High Campus “Sports Collector” Busted

June 14 – Santa Barbara County Cameron Taylor, 21, a resident of Santa Maria in northern Santa Barbara County, working as a security guard at Lakeview Junior High School in

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Mother of Molestation Victim Busted

June 13 – Santa Barbara In what could be described as “Chapter Two” of the story reported here on June 8th detailing the arrest of three men in a protracted

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Half-million-dollar Bail for Suspected Hit & Run Killer

June 8 – Santa Barbara The rural pre-dawn quiet of East Valley Road in Montecito was shattered on the morning of June 6th when a speeding vehicle ran down two

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Half-million-dollar Bail for Suspected Hit & Run Killer

June 8 – Santa Barbara The rural pre-dawn quiet of East Valley Road in Montecito was shattered on the morning of June 6th when a speeding vehicle ran down two

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Trio Charged in Molestation of Pre-teen

June 8 – Santa Barbara Jonathan Cisneros, 25, and David Hernandez-Alecio, 25, incarcerated in Santa Barbara County Jail since April on charges of felony child molestation, have been joined by

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Suspected Caretaker Killer Booked on $1,000,000 Bail

June 3 – Santa Barbara County When a 911 Emergency dispatch operator sent Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies to a quiet residential area just north of the famed La Purisima

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Two Homicides, Three Trials, One Conviction, and Life Without Parole

June 1 – Santa Barbara In what has been one of the area’s most sensational criminal cases of the decade, Corey Lyons, convicted of lying in wait to shotgun his

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APB for Armed Robbery Suspect

May 27 – Santa Barbara County Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Detectives have issued an “all points bulletin” to the general public in their search for an armed robbery suspect plying