Police have arrested a 19-year-old Southern California man for starting an apartment complex fire in Santa Maria last year that displaced 100 people and caused $1 million in damage. One person also had to be hospitalized after suffering burns due... (Continue reading)
Following a five-month joint investigation, sheriff deputies from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties arrested six people suspected of participating in an agriculture and construction equipment theft ring. Deputies investigated more than twenty different cases involving several farming and... (Continue reading)
A Templeton man suspected of stealing money and produce from roadside stands in Huasna Valley was located in the Bay Area. Police in South San Francisco arrested the suspect on Tuesday. [KCOY] The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Rural Crimes... (Continue reading)
The 21-year-old driver of a car involved in a fatal collision Friday on the Cuesta Grade has been charged with murder. One person died and four were injured in the three car accident. At about 8:30 p.m., Gino Lopez, 21,... (Continue reading)
A Carpinteria man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly producing, receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography – crimes he allegedly committed soon after completing a state prison term as a result of other child pornography offenses. Christopher Robin Coates, 41, is... (Continue reading)
Police arrested a Paso Robles man after he allegedly threatened to stab several police officers with a knife during a tense standoff on Friday evening, police said. Shortly after 8 p.m., Joseph Paramo-Panos, 29, kicked in the door of his... (Continue reading)
Police arrested a 48-year-old Grover Beach man for selling drugs out of a Paso Robles hotel on Wednesday. During a search of the Wine Country Inn, Paso Robles detectives found 16 grams of black tar heroin and six grams of... (Continue reading)
A San Luis Obispo man with a violent criminal history led San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase in North County on Thursday. After a 17-minute pursuit, deputies arrested Jason Robert McMaster, as well as his female... (Continue reading)
A Paso Robles woman turned herself in Tuesday morning after police circulated a photo of her allegedly passing a counterfeit check. Kathleen Bartley, 56, is accused of handing counterfeit checks to cashiers at the Paso Robles Target and Lowe’s Home... (Continue reading)
A California deputy attorney general has pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace for her role in a courtroom wrestling match with a San Luis Obispo bailiff. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to drop a greater charge of resisting a peace... (Continue reading)