Santa Barbara
Homeland Security tips local cops to online porn trafficker
SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara County sheriff’s detectives arrested Sean Sidney, 24, on charges related to trafficking in child pornography on the internet last month. Sheriff’s spokesman Drew Sugars said
Santa Barbara college students linked to drug sales
SANTA BARBARA – A pair of undergraduate students at UC Santa Barbara were arrested late last month on suspicion of dealing drugs. The Nov. 30 arrests of Paul Frank and
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
