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Friday 01/15/2021
Santa Barbara, Calif. – Twenty-eight additional inmates and nine additional Sheriff’s Office personnel have been found to be COVID-19 positive this week. This brings the total number of inmates testing positive at the County Jail during the pandemic to 154 and the total number of Sheriff’s Office employees who have tested positive for COVID-19 during…
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Carpinteria Robbery Suspects Arrested After Being Spotted by Alert Citizen
Friday 01/15/2021
Carpinteria, Calif. – Three suspects from a robbery in Carpinteria were arrested hours later in Goleta when a citizen spotted them and called 9-1-1. At 5:41 a.m. yesterday, deputies in Carpinteria responded to 9-1-1 call of an altercation at the Chevron on Via Real and Santa Monica. Deputies learned that an adult female victim had…
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Additional Inmates and Personnel Test COVID-19 Positive
Monday 01/11/2021
Santa Barbara, Calif. – Twenty-three additional inmates and six additional Sheriff’s Office personnel have been found to be COVID-19 positive. This brings the total number of inmates testing positive at the County Jail during the pandemic to one hundred twenty-six and the total number of Sheriff’s Office employees who have tested positive for COVID-19 during…
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Monday 01/11/2021
Santa Barbara, Calif. – A Custody Deputy, a non-sworn staff member and five additional inmates have been found to be COVID-19 positive, and one COVID-19 positive inmate has been released. The Custody Deputy and the non-sworn staff member were both tested on December 31, 2020, last worked on January 1, 2020 and were found to…
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Two Staff and Three Inmates are COVID-19 Positive
Thursday 12/31/2020
Santa Barbara, Calif. – Two additional Deputies and three inmates were found to be COVID-19 positive. The first Custody Deputy last worked on December 29, 2020 and was tested that day. The Custody Deputy became symptomatic on December 30, 2020 and was notified today of the positive test result. The second Custody Deputy, who is…
