Santa Barbara
Underwear Stalker Has Brief Evening
Thomas Brostromrich SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — Arriving just under the wire for 2016’s Creepiest Mugshot Award, the early evening arrest of 43-year-old Goleta resident Thomas Brostromrich on December 9th may
Beach Town Heroin Dealer Beached
Kristopher Davis CARPINTERIA — Affectionately referred to by its devoted citizens as “the last great beachtown,” Carpinteria—home to exactly three traffic signals within the city limits—may be nestled between avocado
Transient Arrested for Burglary
Adam Dale SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The community of Isla Vista, just north of the Santa Barbara city limits, lies immediately adjacent to one of America’s most geographically ideal university
Four Busted in Warrant Sweep
Bob King SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — Just north of famed Rincon Point, a renowned holy grail of the international surfing community and referred to by many as “The Queen of
Compliance Search Nets Five Suspects
Sergio Ruiz-Vargas, Olga Chavez and Jamie Coria SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Compliance Response Team will apparently never have a problem looking for work, as they continue
$100K Bail for Meth Dealer
Martin Bertstecher SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — Sometimes an entrepreneur just can’t get a break. Certainly 49-year-old Martin Berstecher, a resident of the City of Orcutt in the northern reaches of
Burglary Trio Nabbed
Joseph Grazzaffi CARPINTERIA — The sleepy burg touting itself as home of “the world’s safest beach”—notwithstanding this year’s frequent great white shark sightings just yards away from surfers and swimmers—saw
SWAT Cops Burn Barricaded Suspect Out
Eddie Dominguez SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The Laws of Unintended Consequences may have been at play in the morning hours of November 16th when Santa Maria Police Department’s SWAT Team
DUI Suspect Arrested at Gunpoint
Damian Gomez GOLETA — As the holiday season approaches, the perils of alcohol consumption as a precedent to operating a motor vehicle could not have been made more manifest than
Car Thief Attempts to “Swim for It”
Photo of Hale’s arrest Perhaps it’s the allure of the azure Pacific that has recently enticed a handful of aquatically-minded individuals with a sincere desire to avoid contact with law
