Santa Barbara
SB man booked for alleged sex assaults
A 42-year-old Santa Barbara resident has been arrested on suspicion of molesting a high school girl. Officers arrested Florentino Miranda after a tip from child welfare services prompted an investigation.
Drug Dealers Face the (Loud) Music
Isla Vista – As we all know, there’s no accounting for the musical tastes of others, but apparently it’s not only senior citizen drivers who are sensitive to the chest-pounding thump-thump-ka-thump
Trio Busted for Rape
Isla Vista – Legendary Depression Era stickup artist Willie Sutton is said to have robbed banks because “that’s where the money is.” Perhaps because Isla Vista’s UCSB campus is populated by
“Generous” Heroin Dealer Spins a Tale
Santa Barbara – Perhaps finding that the profits in home-based businesses such as telephone sales, survey taking, envelope-stuffing, and secret shopping simply don’t yield the returns promised by the internet and
Visiting Smoker Attacks Landlord
Santa Barbara County – Smoking cigarettes and all that it entails can be a very expensive habit in today’s world…particularly when it leads to criminal assault. On the night of January
Heroin Dealer Done
Santa Barbara – The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce motto “Business is great in Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara is great for business” must have caught the attention of Robert Keith
Unhappy Boyfriend Now Unhappy Inmate
Santa Barbara – Santa Ynez, just north of the city of Santa Barbara, is populated by ranchers and those seeking the most peaceful and rural lifestyle found anywhere in Southern California,
UCSB Student Caught with Cellphone Child Porn
Santa Barbara – UCSB is known as a superior center of higher education to which matriculation is a formidable and challenging hurdle. Only the best and the brightest are accepted into
Blood Sport for Birds Busted
Santa Barbara County – Cockfighting is hardly for chickens, nor is it legal north of the International Border. And, according to Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover,
Fistfight With Family Dog Escalates to 8-hour Standoff with Cops
Santa Barbara – In what must surely fall into the “one dumb thing leads to another” column, Nicola Zeno Mollo Jr., 39, began the day of January 8th by angrily punching
