Articles Tagged With ‘San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office’
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff – Coroner About Us
Formed in 1850, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office is the oldest and largest law enforcement agency in the county, with enforcement covering over 3,200 square miles. In addition to being the primary law enforcement agency for San Luis Obispo County, the Sheriff is responsible for coroner services, the county jail which houses over 500 inmates, the civil division, and special investigations units like the Gang Task Force, Special Problems Unit, Narcotics Unit, Records and Warrants, Sheriff & EMS dispatch facility, Search and Rescue, the Posse Unit, Aero Squadron and Dive Team.
The Mission of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office is to protect all life and property and to provide service, security, and safety to the community, as directed by law and moral responsibility.
http://www.slosheriff.org/
Written on 7 Jan, 2012 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
19 comments A 53-year-old San Luis Obispo County Jail inmate was found dead in his single person cell on Thursday at about 2 p.m. Kevin Lee Strahl, 53, a transient, was in custody on failure to register as a sex offender. A... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Jan, 2012 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
80 comments A ground and air search for a shooter responsible for peppering homes on three streets with bullets Sunday afternoon ended after San Luis Obispo Sheriff deputies discovered a man target shooting with a rifle on the north side of the... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Dec, 2011 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
19 comments Two alleged arsonists were arrested in Pismo Beach on Thursday for setting 24 small fires. [KSBY] The pair allegedly ignited the fires in woodland areas north of Oak Park Boulevard and east of James Way around 4 p.m. Firefighters from... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Dec, 2011 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
11 comments Deputies arrested a Paso Robles woman Wednesday after the ankle bracelet she had been wearing sent a signal that she had tampered with the monitoring device. Jean Michele Cross, 60, who was due to turn herself in to federal authorities,... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Dec, 2011 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
10 comments Deputies arrested an Arroyo Grande smoke shop owner after he allegedly sold alcohol and drug paraphernalia to a San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s department decoy during a sting operation on Friday. Ghanem Ayass, 52, the owner of Mr. Smokes on Halcyon... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Dec, 2011 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
6 comments Gruesome details about the bizarre torture of a California Valley man in November were revealed in a San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s department warrant obtained by KSBY. In November, Travis Dames escaped from two men who had held him hostage... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Dec, 2011 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
35 comments A San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s surveillance of a pair of suspected drug dealers led to the discovery Wednesday of an ecstasy lab in SLO. After discovering ecstasy tablets in a car the suspects were traveling in, deputies arrested Marcus... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Dec, 2011 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
10 comments A Templeton man accused of sexually molesting two children pled guilty at a readiness hearing on Wednesday allowing him to forgo a trial scheduled for Thursday. In October 2010, Donald Baker was charged with eight felony counts in the alleged... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Dec, 2011 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
13 comments One of the defendants accused of burning a cross in Arroyo Grande in an attempt to terrorize a black teen is now facing additional charges of bringing drugs into the San Luis Obispo County Jail. On Thursday, Jason Kahn, 36,... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Nov, 2011 in
Daily Briefs, Featured |
34 comments The 17-year-old shot in the head Thursday night by a drive-by shooter in Oceano died at a local hospital this morning. At about 6:30 p.m., a drive-by shooter shot Gabriel Salgado, 17, of Oceano and an unnamed 14-year-old on the... (Continue reading)
