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San Luis Obispo County X-ray technician given jail time for sexual battery
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A San Luis Obispo County judge has sentenced a local X-ray technician to 120 days in jail for a misdemeanor sexual battery conviction over unwanted touching of a patient at a medical office. John Stephen O’Brien, 47,... (Continue reading)
Serial thief gets nine years in prison for San Luis Obispo County crime spree
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Paso Robles woman, who is a serial thief with a criminal history that crosses multiple California counties, has received a sentence of nine years in prison, along with the possibility of an additional two years, for... (Continue reading)
Woman sentenced to nearly 10 years for DUI crash that killed bicyclist in SLO
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A San Luis Obispo County judge on Tuesday sentenced an Oregon woman to nearly 10 years in prison for a 2024 hit-and-run that killed an elderly bicyclist. On July 23, 2024, 45-year-old Vanessa Rose Noblitt was driving... (Continue reading)
One of SLO County woman’s nine election fraud convictions nullified
By JOSH FRIEDMAN One of the nine election fraud counts on which a San Luis Obispo County jury convicted Gaea Powell has been nullified because the verdict was not read in court. Last month, a jury convicted Powell of nine... (Continue reading)
Man plotted to kill SLO County district attorney, sentenced to prison
By KAREN VELIE The man accused of plotting to kill San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow, his wife and two children was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison on Tuesday afternoon in the U.S. District Court for... (Continue reading)
Grover Beach man sentenced to life for abusing three girls, one woman
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A San Luis Obispo County judge on Tuesday sentenced a 74-year-old man to 73 years to life in prison for sexually abusing four females, three of whom were children. During a trial earlier this year, jurors heard... (Continue reading)
Paso Robles man sentenced to four years in prison for embezzlement
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A San Luis Obispo County judge on Tuesday sentenced a Paso Robles man to four years and four months in prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from an Atascadero business. In May 2024, the owner... (Continue reading)
Gang member given 42 years to life in prison for Oceano murder, knife assault
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A San Luis Obispo County judge on Tuesday sentenced a 31-year-old gang member from Santa Maria to 42 years to life in prison for the murder of an Oceano man and a separate knife assault of a... (Continue reading)
Man convicted of murder in Santa Maria cold case sentenced to life in prison
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Santa Barbara County judge on Friday sentenced a 57-year-old man to life in prison without the possibility of parole over the murder of a 30-year-old woman in Santa Maria in 1988. On Sept. 18, 1988, Aloysius... (Continue reading)
Man sentenced to life in prison for SLO murder, mutilating remains
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A judge has sentenced a 44-year-old man to 96 years to life in prison for murdering a 64-year-old man and mutilating his remains in the Bianchi Open Space area behind Megan’s Organic Market in San Luis Obispo.... (Continue reading)