AnonymousUpdate by the Santa Barbara Police Department
On August 14th, at 1208 hours, the Santa Barbara Combined Communication Center (CCC) received a call from a witness who observed someone starting a trash can fire near the intersection of North Milpas Street and Mason Street. Shortly after, a second fire was reported nearby in a trash can at Milpas Street and Montecito Street. The same witness who was reporting the second fire, also observed a suspect attempt to light a palm tree on fire at 1107 East Montecito Street. A description was provided, but the suspect fled the area before officers arrived.
Alert members of American Medical Response (AMR Ambulance) who were in the area, observed a suspect matching the description walking thru Eastside Park. The suspect was also allegedly attempting to light trash cans on fire in the park. Personnel from AMR watched the suspect until officers arrived to take the suspect into custody approximately 37 minutes after the first call was received by the CCC.
The suspect, identified as Miguel Plascencia, a 22-year old Santa Barbara resident, will be booked at Santa Barbara County Jail on two counts of arson and two counts of attempted arson. Bail was set at 1 million dollars.
By an edhat reader
At 1PM a citizen observed a vagrant lighting multiple trashcans on fire on Milpas Street. He called it in, the Fire Department responded but they don’t have arrest powers, so they waited 20 minutes for the Police who then took the arsonist into custody.
My next door neighbor is the guy who called it in but I don’t think he’d want his name online.
By Roger the Scanner Guy
Subject witnessed lighting numerous trash cans on Fire walking North on Milpas Street…
Keep ‘me coming Murillo! Your project is working perfectly.
I saw those cloudy skies yesterday over the east side and my first concern was multiple lightning strikes. Here we go again! More expected lightning strikes in the future as long as the current Santa Barbara city leadership remains in place.
Roger- I can’t even imagine how you can pull this off. Bunch of noise, & discerning what is “Safe to post”, having to “Respond to us idiots” all at the same time. Especially enjoy the “Colorful” tidbits! Huge Thank YOU! – traditional 12th anniversary Silk; modern is Pearls…
Is there evena tough guy in the race?
I’d settle for creative, which is something Cathy Murillo will never be.
Santa Barbara has 887 Homeless people
All of South Orange County has 763 homeless people, most — 538 — are sleeping outside. Laguna Beach has the highest number of homeless people at 147, but there’s also a homeless shelter there. San Clemente followed at 145 people and Irvine isn’t far behind with 130 people.
Cities with the lowest homeless numbers were Villa Park and Yorba Linda with one person and Aliso Viejo with none.
Those are other cities that do better with homelessness and aren’t mired in legal challenges.
Another way to go about would be to band together with numerous CA beach cities with homeless issues and go to court as a unit if challenged.
You are the new Homeless Czar for CA. What’s your next move.
Murillio: Move them to Goleta! (the Airport property)
And to think I said she wasn’t creative. That is some world class passing the buck right there
https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/california-homelessness-czar-options-ratings-cost-efficiency/