Santa Barbara
75-year-old Charged with Murder
Mary Karacas VENTURA COUNTY — On Sunday afternoon, July 17th, Ventura County Sheriff deputies assigned to the Simi Valley Police Department rolled into a Simi Valley neighborhood following a 911 Emergency
DUI Driver Charged with Motorcyclist’s Death
Garret D. Alford SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — What could be more fun on a balmy mid-summer evening than a carefree motorcycle ride at sunset? That may well have been the mood
Manslaughter Arrest in Hit-and-Run Fatality
Juan Perez Aguilar SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — Just after dawn on July 14th, 88-year-old Miguel Gutierrez-Vargas was walking across a residential street in the City of Goleta when he was suddenly
20 Johns Busted in Prostitution Sting
SBSD PIO Kelly Hoover SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The adage “if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is” is more on point than the series of online advertisements for
Police Connect Lompoc Man to Brother’s Murder
Arturo Herrera SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — Legend, mythology, and popular fiction are rife with circumstances of fratricide perhaps because it is so ultimately dramatic and because in our daily reality homicide
Luck Leads Compliance Cops to Multiple Busts
Vanessa Vasquez and Joanna Savoy SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department Compliance Response Team—tasked with enforcing the terms of parole and/or probation imposed by both the courts
Gang-banger Busted for ADW
Christopher Lyn Manson III SANTA BARBARA — With the area’s summer tourism season in full swing and driving much of the city’s economy and tax revenues, the law enforcement perspectives of
Murder Charge in Death of Toddler
Sean Michael Kothe Santa Barbara County – In the late afternoon of June 26th, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrived at Santa Maria’s Marian Regional Medical Center following an alert
No Bail Hold on Fireworks & Probation Violator
Samuel Albrecht SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — Many of us traditionally celebrate Independence Day with displays of fireworks meant to symbolize, if not accurately replicate, the pyrotechnics that followed King George’s reading
Hate Crime-Knife Attack Over Cigarettes
Francisco Antonio Diego Santa Barbara – It appears that when conducting a violent crime against another person, failing to consider the ethnicity of the victim may exacerbate the legal charges flowing
