Santa Barbara
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
Gas Station Employee Arrested for Workplace Rape
Josue Emanuel Torres Santa Barbara Police Department detectives, upon receiving a report of an alleged rape occurring two days earlier, rolled up to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department Carpinteria
DUI Suspect Arrested & Charged in Fatal Crash
Spring Abigail Morrissey SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office announced that charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated with gross negligence and driving under the influence
Vagrant Arrested for Sexual Battery
Main Street in Ventura VENTURA — The streets in the busy commercial area of the city of Ventura usually quiet down in the evening hours once the area’s retail stores
Assault Ruled a Hate Crime by Santa Barbara County D.A.
John Harlan Savala SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley announced to the media on October 19th that, pursuant to a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the
