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Paso Robles woman faces two DUIs after manslaughter conviction

Written on 16 Dec, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 22 comments

A Paso Robles woman who served a prison sentence for hitting and killing a tow truck driver while driving high on prescription drugs has had two DUI arrests since her release from lockup. [Tribune] Denise Gafner Mendoza, 55, is currently... (Continue reading)

SWAT team arrests Paso Robles couple

Written on 12 Dec, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

Members of the San Luis Obispo County Regional SWAT Team arrested a Paso Robles couple Wednesday morning that are believed to be dangerous gang associates. Around 6 a.m. Wednesday, the SWAT team served a search warrant for narcotics in the... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles woman not guilty of murdering mother

Written on 11 Dec, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

A mentally ill Paso Robles women who murdered her mother was found not guilty by reason of insanity on Tuesday In April 2012, police responding to a 911 call found Sunni Jackson, 38, sitting outside the home and her mother... (Continue reading)

Estate Financial president Karen Guth getting out of prison early

Written on 11 Dec, 2013 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 21 comments

A principal in a fraudulent $3oo million investment scheme she ran out of the Estate Financial Inc. office in Paso Robles, which financially ruined thousands of people, is slated to be released after serving a little more than six years... (Continue reading)

Court-supervised groundwater management

Written on 9 Dec, 2013 in Featured, Opinion | 15 comments

OPINION By CINDY STEINBECK “Management” of the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin is a hot topic. Our groundwater basin will be managed. The question and struggle is about who will manage and what rules will apply. California law offers fundamentally different... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles residents arrested in narcotics bust

Written on 9 Dec, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Officers on the Paso Robles Special Enforcement Team arrested a 46-year-old Paso Robles woman and a 21-year-old man with the same last name during a narcotics bust Friday. A Paso Robles Police Department spokesperson said it is not public record... (Continue reading)

Gambling addiction leads to bank robbery?

Written on 4 Dec, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Investigators are looking at a Paso Robles man’s gambling addiction as a possible motive for his alleged robbery of a Cambria bank. [KSBY] Last Month, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Valentine at his Heritage Ranch home for the... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles landowners need to protect their water rights

Written on 30 Nov, 2013 in Featured, Opinion | 35 comments

OPINION By CINDY STEINBECK Water is California’s gold. Groundwater basins are a battle ground where landowners must protect their water rights from modern-day claim-jumpers who include well-financed entrepreneurs seeking to sell or export our water. Where does that leave landowners?... (Continue reading)

Water conservation does not work

Written on 27 Nov, 2013 in Featured, Opinion | 16 comments

OPINION By GARY KIRKLAND A water company is comparable to an oil company. Both companies provide vital liquids. An oil company can and does go half way around the world, dig the petroleum out of the ground, ship it to... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles woman accused in death of daughter tries to reverse plea

Written on 26 Nov, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A Paso Robles woman attempted to withdraw her plea of no contest Monday to causing the death of her three-year-old daughter. [Tribune] Prosecutors initially charged Erin Martin, 45, with murder and assaulting a child under 8 after her baby, Grace,... (Continue reading)