County’s most wanted: Stephen Ryan Avellar
Stephen Ryan Avellar, 47. –The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office asks: Have you seen this man? Stephen Ryan Avellar, 47, is wanted for failing to appear in court for inflicting corporal injury...
View ArticleMan arrested in Morro Bay for drug possession, driving under the influence
40-year-old Kenneth Clark Wiedemann of Morro Bay. –Tuesday night at 8:44 p.m., Morro Bay Police officers were dispatched to a business in the 900 block of Morro Bay Blvd regarding a disturbance. Upon...
View ArticleUpdate: Former Lyft driver found guilty of sexual assault sentenced to 10...
Update posted Jan 23 –District Attorney Dan Dow announced this week that 52-year-old Jason Lamont Fenwick was sentenced to ten years in state prison for the following four crimes: assault with the...
View ArticlePolice seek woman who tried to cash stolen check at American Rivera Bank
–The Paso Robles Police Department asks: do you recognize this woman? She reportedly attempted to cash a stolen check at American Riviera Bank in Paso Robles. Police posted the following on their...
View ArticleTwo arrested after attempting to rob laundry room coin machine posing as...
Kelley Lynn Burchnell and Anthony Ishmael Farley. Suspects also had outstanding warrants; one suspect in possession of drugs, stolen property –On Jan. 23, 2020 at approximately 5 p.m., Morro Bay...
View ArticleMan arrested for homicide after stabbing incident
Sean Maneely, 53. –On Saturday, at approx. 3:49 p.m., Morro Bay Police officers were dispatched to the 1100 block of Allesandro Ave. regarding a possible disturbance. While responding to the scene...
View ArticleMan arrested for possession of a loaded concealed firearm in a vehicle
The passenger of the vehicle, Jesus Moreno Gonzalez, had a magazine to a firearm sticking out of his front pocket, and officers located an unregistered Glock 9mm stuffed down the front of Moreno...
View ArticleSheriff’s office now in possession of two trucks potentially related to...
–In response to the large number of recent public inquiries, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office is releasing the following information in the Kristin Smart investigation: The Sheriff’s...
View ArticleCounty’s most wanted: Judd Tyler Mundorf
Judd Tyler Mundorf, 45, is wanted for violating probation for grand theft from an elder or dependent adult. –The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office asks: Have you seen this man? Judd Tyler...
View ArticleNorth County man sentenced to four years eight months in state prison for...
–District Attorney Dan Dow announced that Josiah James Johnstone (35) of Atascadero was sentenced Tuesday to four years eight months in state prison for making criminal threats and stalking two women...
View ArticlePaso Robles High School student arrested for fundraising scam
–Last week, a Paso Robles Police Department officer attempted a traffic stop on a car near the high school, but the driver fled and ditched the car in the driveway of a house. The 17-year old suspect...
View ArticleWanted Bakersfield duo arrested for possession of stolen property,...
Holly Lynn Mahoney and Michael Aden Mahoney of Bakersfield.–On Saturday, Feb. 1 at 8:05 p.m., an officer from the Morro Bay Police Department conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for failure to stop...
View ArticleJury finds man guilty of lewd act upon a child
29-year-old Jay Vee Batul Estoque. –District Attorney Dan Dow announced this week that a San Luis Obispo County jury found Santa Maria resident, 29-year-old Jay Vee Batul Estoque guilty of...
View ArticleUpdate: Police use Taser to subdue suspect who fled from accident
The scene of an accident on Paso Robles Street. Photo by Anthony Reed –On Tuesday, at about 11 a.m., Paso Robles Police and Fire Departments received several calls for a two-vehicle traffic accident...
View ArticleBookkeeper arrested on suspicion of embezzling more than $5 million
Ginger Lee Mankins, 55. –District Attorney Dan Dow announced this week that Ginger Lee Mankins, 55, has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling more than $5 million from two local agricultural...
View ArticleUpdate: Shooting suspect arrested
Update posted 5 p.m. –On Monday at 12 p.m., the Atascadero Police Department’s Investigations Unit arrested Derrick Lee Green, a 36-year-old male from Atascadero. Green was booked at San Luis Obispo...
View ArticleMan arrested for possession of heroin after trying to flee on foot, hitting tree
–Paso Robles police have apprehended a suspect who attempted to flee on foot into the Riverbed after seeing officers near Denny’s in Paso Robles recently, according to a Facebook post by the police...
View ArticleCounty’s most wanted: Lawrence Branden Rodriguez
Lawrence Branden Rodriguez, 23 –The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office asks: Have you seen this man? Lawrence Branden Rodriguez, 23, is wanted for violating probation for felony intent to steal...
View ArticleLa Jolla man charged with assaulting elderly female during Morro Bay surf...
39-year-old Brian Robert Sprinkle of La Jolla, California –On Saturday, Morro Bay Police Officers responded to Morro Rock parking lot located on Coleman Dr. to a report of a disturbance. Upon...
View Article16 vehicles in San Luis Obispo have their tires punctured
–On Saturday at about 8:15 a.m., the San Luis Obispo Police Department responded to a vandalism report in the area of the 900 Block of Johnson where multiple cars had their tires punctured with an...
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