CRIME & SAFETY

A driver crashed into a light pole, knocking it down, on Sunday afternoon in San Luis Obispo. It is suspected the driver swerved to avoid another car that unexpectedly entered the person’s lane, police said. The driver then slammed a white sedan into a light pole by the intersection of Los Osos Valley Road and Descanso Street.

Detectives allegedly spotted Craig Doll driving “erratically” and weaving across lanes on Highway 101.

Timothy Clarke Wolfe faces up to 20 years in prison.

When firefighters arrived, they found the fire extinguished with no extension. Crews helped with smoke removal.

A Grover Beach man was arrested last week for multiple narcotics violations, including possession of over $80,000 in fentanyl, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office announced today.

San Luis Obispo police officers are searching for a pair of suspects who attacked cacti and planters outside a downtown SLO restaurant this week, causing more than $1,000 worth of damage. “Late Wednesday night, two people went full ninja on the cactus and planters in the courtyard adjacent to Seeds...

The San Luis Obispo Police Department is asking for the public's help to identify two people who damaged several plants and planters along Court Street late Wednesday night.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Four men recently featured on Golden Empire Most Wanted have been arrested thanks to viewer submitted tips. Eddie Dominguez, 33, was arrested on May 19 in Arroyo Grande. He was was on parole for assault with a deadly weapon and was wanted for attempted murder.

SAN LUIS OBISPO – For the first time, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has publicly apologized to the family of Kristin Smart for how it first handled the investigation into her disappearance. The apology, which was published on Friday, comes 27 years to the day that the Stockton native disappeared following an off-campus party. Kristin's friends said, when they called Cal Poly police, officers initially wouldn't take a missing persons report – and when they did, days later, police told the Smart family their daughter was likely camping. Paul Flores, a classmate of Kristin, was only convicted of her murder...

San Luis Obispo County is possibly facing a first: prosecuting a fentanyl overdose death as a homicide. On May 15, the Sheriff's Office arrested Templeton native Brandi Turner for allegedly selling fentanyl to 31-year-old Quinn Hall that resulted in his death. Hall's body was discovered behind the county Animal Services building on Oklahoma Avenue on Oct. 27, 2022. The Sheriff's Office later determined the cause to be a fentanyl overdose and that Turner sold him the synthetic opioid.

Authorities arrested a man entering the United States earlier this month who allegedly sexually abused four or more girls at an unlicensed daycare center that was being run out of his San Luis Obispo home. In May 2018, a girl told officers she had been sexually abused at the home...

The San Luis Obispo Fire Department in California is urging property owners to remove all combustible weeds, dead trees, and debris from their properties to prevent deadly and damaging fires.

A San Luis Obispo County Jail inmate who was released early last week is already back behind bars. On the morning of May 18, after spending less than four months in jail for burglary, grand theft and attempted robbery, 29-year-old James Delles was set free. He then made his way to the Smart & Final in San Luis Obispo, where he allegedly stole alcohol.

Online sports retailer Sports Warehouse has agreed to overhaul its security program and pay a $300,000 fine to New York state over a data breach that impacted over 1 million U.S. consumers. Investigators found that the retailer was storing nearly 20 years' worth of payment card data on its e-commerce server in plaintext format, protected by only a password, which the attacker guessed.

“If it seems too good to be true, it probably is,” one local Realtor said.

PASO ROBLES — San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow announced today the sentencing of Skylar Marie Marshall, 26, who grew up in Paso Robles, for the involuntary manslaughter of her husband, Alexander Hagist, 35. Marshall received a seven-year sentence, with two years to be served in county...

Police officers in Pismo Beach, California helped relocate a seal that found its way through a hotel Wednesday.

A Central Coast police department had to call it’s “Seal Team” into action. No, it’s not one of the military type teams like you see on TV, which do dangerous missions behind enemy lines. Pismo Beach Police were called to a hotel because a sea lion pup had not only gone inside, it went up some stairs and into a hallway by some rooms.

A Cal Poly San Luis Obispo fraternity member filed a lawsuit last month against two sorority sisters for allegedly spreading a fabricated rape allegation. The suit accuses Samantha Canik, a member of the Delta Gamma sorority, of alleging rape following a consensual sexual encounter. Her roommate and sorority sister, Sydney Walsh, then allegedly “involved herself in the assault on plaintiff’s reputation.”

ATASCADERO — In response to a robbery incident at Outlaws Bar and Grill on East Front Road, the Atascadero Police Department (APD) apprehended the suspects involved. The incident occurred on Wednesday, May 17, at approximately 11:55 p.m., when two victims were approached by two suspects while seated in their vehicle outside the establishment.