SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Maria police arrested a local resident who’s accused of threatening a person with a knife, among other charges. The incident occurred near the intersection of North Oakley and Fesler Streets just after 3 Saturday afternoon. Police located 40-year-old Mario Lopez inside an old shed on a vacant private property, where he refused to
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OXNARD, Calif. (KEYT) – A 17-year-old has been charged in connection with an August shooting at a Five Guys that hospitalized an uninvolved bystander. The teen was 16 at the time of the shooting at The Collection shopping center and now faces charges of shooting at an occupied building, buying or receiving a firearm against
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VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Ivar Laegreid of Oxnard was sentenced to six years and four months in state prison after being convicted of seven felony counts related to drug sales and gun possession. Laegreid was convicted by a Ventura County jury on Oct. 8, 2026, of the following counts: Two Counts of H&S 11378–Possession
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LOMPOC, Calif. (KEYT) – Lompoc Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting after a fight broke out at a party over the weekend. LPD officers arrived after people forced their way into the house party and later found a stolen car associated with the disturbance. LPD officers approached the car which sped towards the officers, causing the
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two LA men just after 2:30 a.m. Friday for catalytic converter theft and a car chase that ended in Ventura County. SBCSO deputies received calls of a catalytic converter theft at the 4700 block of Glenbrook Street. The victim reported suspects driving a Toyota Camry
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CARPINTERIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A grieving family is seeking answers after the suspicious death of a relative while facing another setback involving a memorial created in his honor. Lawrence Brennen, 39, was found dead inside an apartment on Los Aguajes Avenue in Santa Barbara and Police arrested two people in connection with concealing his body.
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VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Pedro Ocampo Alvarez of Oxnard was convicted this week of 11 felony counts of child molestation after he abused a ten-year-old neighbor for a year. Alvarez waived his right to a jury trial and on Nov. 4, 2026, Ventura County Superior Court Judge Paul Feldman found him guilty of the
Continue Reading SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – A 54-year-old San Luis Obispo man was arrested Thursday for battery and vandalism after a neighbor dispute turned violent and a brief standoff on Bullock Lane ensued. On Nov. 5, around 2:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to a reported physical altercation between neighbors in the 3500 block of Bullock
Continue Reading VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – A countywide law enforcement operation targeting the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material resulted in the arrest of seven people. Operation Night Fall, conducted between Sep. 21, 2026, and Oct. 8, 2026, was a joint law enforcement operation involving federal, state, and local authorities stated the Ventura County
Continue Reading VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – A 27-year-old Camarillo man was arrested for felony hit and run after an 84-year-old pedestrian was left with substantial injuries after a collision Wednesday morning. On Nov. 4, around 8:10 a.m., deputies were dispatched to a reported hit-and-run collision involving a pedestrian at the intersection of Chandler Street and Arneill
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA (KEYT) – University police are investigating an attempted robbery and stabbing at Coal Oil Point Reserve that happened Wednesday evening. On Nov. 4, at 9:10 p.m., a campus alert was issued about an attempted robbery that resulted in a stabbing at Coal Oil Point Reserve. The initial alert noted
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SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Jose Manuel Venturagarcia was convicted of all 24 counts related to the sexual assaults of three children and an adult woman. According to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office, 21 separate witnesses testified during the 19-day trial that resulted in the conviction of Venturagarcia on the
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – Lana Olivia Knor, 84, pled guilty to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in connection with the October 2024 death of 18-year-old Mason Anthony Rohwedder. The plea deal required that Knor was sentenced to probation, agree to pay a restitution requested by Rohwedder’s family, and the 84-year-old also agreed to surrender her driver’s
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VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Four family members operating a commercial sex operation were sentenced to state prison this week. All four were previously convicted by a Ventura County jury of multiple offenses related to the operation of the scheme as well as laundering the illicit proceeds through real estate deals and financial institutions. Xiangwei
Continue Reading GUADALUPE, Calif. (KEYT) – Two Guadalupe men were arrested Wednesday morning in connection with two separate investigations related to the possession of child sexual abuse material. The investigations are currently unrelated, but both started with notifications from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, a nationwide initiative through the U.S. Department of Justice, shared
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Local police shared an update about their investigation into a suspicious death after a body was recovered from an apartment on Los Aguajes Avenue last week. According to the Santa Barbara Police Department, the deceased has been identified as 39-year-old Lawrence Brennen of Santa Barbara and his death is still
Continue Reading PASO ROBLES, Calif. (KEYT) – A 36-year-old man was arrested Tuesday evening on southbound Highway 101 after taking a vehicle from the Paso Robles Event Center. On Nov. 3, just after 9 p.m., officers were sent to the Paso Robles Event Center at 2198 Riverside Avenue after receiving a report of a vehicle theft involving
Continue Reading SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A stabbing victim was taken to the hospital Monday evening and is expected to survive after an assault in an alley off North Broadway. On Nov. 2, around 5:33 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 200 block of East Grant Street for a reported stabbing stated a press release Tuesday
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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents spent more than four hours Monday inside the lobby of the Santa Barbara County jail. They chose not to comment, but could be heard discussing agitators over a walkie-talkie device. Members of S.B. Resiste said they call themselves observers and used their phones to record
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VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) – Manuel Alejandro Vasquez, 48, received a 25 year to life sentence in state prison after murdering Felipe Arambula in 1998, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. Vazquez previously pled guilty on September 30 to first-degree murder after he and another man shot and killed Arambula at his Ventura home on
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