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Attempted Gas Station Stickup Ends in Arrest

Mobil Gas north of Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The Mobil Gas Station located just north of the Santa Barbara city limits may be located in a high traffic area, with

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Slippery Multi-jurisdictional Suspect Caught

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY – Richard Anthony Rodriguez, a 30-year-old resident of Nipomo—just north of the Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo county line—was finally captured on February 29th as he cruised down a neighborhood

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Car Chase Ends in True “Cliff-hanger”

Trevor Crain, on the move SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — Proving once again that life often imitates art, a high-speed car chase on U.S. 101 through Santa Barbara County could easily have

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Car Thief Captured After Ditching Girlfriend

Efren Martinez and Cataline Padilla Carpinteria – Clear evidence of contemporary social and gender mores indicating that chivalry is indeed a thing of the past, it was just after 3:00 a.m.

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Victim Chases “Hot Prowl” Burglar into Arms of the Law

Francisco Ayala Hernandez Santa Barbara – There may be no more threatening property crime than a “hot prowl” wherein a burglar slips into a residence in the dead of night with

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Hot Pursuit Nabs Parole Violator

Renee Zacarias SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — In what may be reasonably categorized to the “some people simply refuse to learn” department, on the night of February 13th Santa Maria Police Department

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Senior Citizen Arrested in Hit-and-Run Car Chase

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — The CHP station is Buellton must be a busy place, considering the enormous amount of high-speed vehicular travel constantly flowing through a jurisdiction that includes U.S. 101,

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DNA Yields Arrest in UCSB Cold Rape Case

Daniel Chiang Chen Santa Barbara County – Two years ago, on February 23, 2014, UCSB Police and Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a violent gang rape

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Fight Over Sunglasses Ends in Stabbing

Jonathan Castaneda Santa Barbara – What appears to have been a verbal confrontation between two men walking the streets of downtown Santa Barbara just after noon on February 10th led to

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DMT Cook Burned & Busted

Laurence Larsen Santa Barbara – Early in the evening of February 13th, Santa Barbara Police and Santa Barbara City Fire units responded to a 911 Emergency call reporting a fire in