Edhat Staff
Update by the Santa Barbara Police Department
September 1, 2022
Dispatch received a report on August 27, 2022, just after 10:00 pm about an ambulance that was stolen from the parking lot of the Hilton Hotel, 600 East Cabrillo Blvd.
The ambulance employees contacted the Santa Barbara Police Combined Communications Center (CCC) to report the incident. SBPD CCC was able to get the GPS tracking device on the ambulance activated in order to provide real-time tracking abilities to the responding officers.
Several minutes after the GPS tracking was activated, officers responded to the area of Garden Street and East Carrillo Street where they located the ambulance driving north on Garden Street. A high-risk traffic stop was conducted, and the suspect driver was taken into custody without incident.
The suspect was identified as Jacob Martin Barrios, 44-year-old transient. He was booked in Santa Barbara County Jail on felony vehicle theft and driving on a suspended license. His bail was set at $30,000.
The ambulance was returned to the company undamaged and without any items missing from inside.
Update by the edhat staff
August 28, 2022
Santa Barbara Police responded to a report of a stolen ambulance in the 1100 block of Garden Street on Saturday evening.
John Palminteri reports the empty AMR ambulance was stolen from E. Cabrillo Blvd. in Santa Barbara while emergency personnel were responding to a medical call at a hotel.
Shortly thereafter, Palminteri reports the ambulance was spotted on Garden Street. The suspect was held at gunpoint before being arrested.
Reported by an edhat reader
August 27, 2022
- Saturday night on Garden street, 1100 block, major police response. What’s up?
Mentally ill or high on drugs, maybe both. I don’t care what some say, things are getting worse in SB and throughout a lot of California. It wasn’t always like this. Go ahead, tell me I’m ‘clutching my pearls’, that’s a laugh.
Lol you’re clutching your pearls. Remember when Covid started and all you chicken littles thought a barbarian horde was going to ride through town? I remember people saying in hushed voices that bank robbers would be everywhere because of masks. That looting and assaults would be rampant without guaranteed jail time. Now you latch onto every crime to vindicate that hysteria. The real question is why was the ambulance left open to steal? And why do EMT’s, people who literally save lives, make less money than most restaurant servers?
Don’t worry Newsom has almost finished fixing about everything !!!
We live in a one party ruled State. Sadly, there is nothing you can do to change the direction this once “Golden State” is going… This next election and the propositions are a clear indicator of what is wrong in this State…
You only need to step to Europe to see that they hate Republicans destruction of America.
I’d much rather live here than in a red nanny state where books are burned, people believe elections were stolen and support the proud boys and q, racist police, where infant mortality/obesity/governement handouts are higher than any where else. Oh the great red states that have the GDP of San Miguel Island.
If Coast Watch wants to watch the coast – he should move to a red coast. Bye champ.
Live there then.
We can find irrational dishonest stereotyping haters right here on EdHat.
If your suggestion to others if they don’t like what’s happening in their town is to tell them to “go ahead and move”, I’d say that’s bs.
Look back and think about scenarios. How about this for example. Hey, you donot like the fact that you couldn’t get waited on in a restaurant around here? Too bad, go ahead and move.
Or
Hey, quit complaining because you couldn’t get hired fairly around here because someone didn’t like the way you looked, go ahead and move.
Or
Too bad you got pulled over and harassed because you look like you do, just shut up about it our go ahead and move.
Or
So what if you got yelled at while walking around with your family on a sunny afternoon, just shut up and deal with it, it doesn’t bother me – go ahead and move.
I think there’s a few here who are ALWAYS ready to put it into a Dem vs. Repub fight here, you against me, context. I’d lose that mentality right about now if I were you. Think differently maybe. Big picture is do you think things are going in the right direction in SB, and CA in the past few years, or not. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, without being told to get the h-ll out. That’s bs.
None of those scenarios are analogous to what is be complained about. Honestly, why would anyone live in a town/state that they hate and despise with such passion and feel will never change? I sure as shinola wouldn’t stay. Go be happy somewhere that aligns with your ideals. SB clearly doesn’t.
Nuance is difficult for some people…
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The guy obviously hates it here. Declares the entire state a massive failure. Feels oppressed. He is crying and whining and complaining and not doing anything to change HIS situation. Its HIS choice to live a life of misery. That is no skin off my nose, or anyone else’s… But he should change the only thing he can actually change. In this case, that’s him packing up and moving to somewhere that isn’t CA. He would be happier in a place that matched his vision and ideals. That’s what America is all about. Picking up and starting over. No birthrights. No lords…
Who said I hate this town? Sac and SBO you made that up entirely. That’s on you, I love SB. I don’t like the way certain things like overdevelopment and crime are going, that’s all. I think my words are straightforward and honest.
Basic hasn’t figured out how to reply to an individual comment, so he disrupts the threading.
So if someone doesn’t agree then leave? SB is relatively liberal, but there are quite a lot of people here that disagree with the left-wing agenda. Just because someone has a differing opinion doesn’t mean anything but that. I love SB! It’s my hometown, my kid’s home town and the 4 generations before me. I don’t like some of the politics or how it’s run, but it’s still my home! It’s okay to have a different opinion. Listening to others’ differing opinions is a great way to learn and grow as a person. Tolerance people. It’s not all about you.
OGSB, believe me, Jesus isn’t on your side.
If someone believes in insurrection. xenophobia, burning books , James Diven ministries, 10 year olds carrying rapist babies, then yes, you aren’t welcome here in our community. There is no tolerance for fascism. Things have changed since 2016. There is no shelter here.
Ya – nah. Sorry, not sorry. I’m not ultra left – I simply wrote about a few things including fascism, stealing elections, and making 10 year olds carry babies – those are things you are defending and got triggered by. But you do you.
GT- Name one single instance I have defended any of the things in any of your posts. Yeah, you can’t. Go away troll.
Basic: “I love this town, but it’s terrible out there!!” *clutches pearls*
OGSB After I posted about fascism, rapist babies carried by 10 years olds and stealing elections you posted “GT- WTF are you going on about? These are all YOUR crazy theories about anyone who doesn’t have the same ultra-left thinking as you.” Then you invited me to go surfing to go “work it out like adults”. Believe me I’d take you up on that offer but you wouldn’t be needing the board it would be the end of our “conversation” in the parking lot.
GT- WTF are you going on about? These are all YOUR crazy theories about anyone who doesn’t have the same ultra-left thinking as you.
I think it’s pretty clear. I post at 1:53 and then get hammered at 2:24 and 2:31 by SBO and Sac respectively claiming something I never even said. “Just go away!”
It’s all good. I’ll do things my way and you do you.
And thanks 03:33, for contributing nothing.
BASIC – wait what? I never said you said anything in my 2:24 comment, I simply explained why leaving a town they hate might not be a bad idea. You’re really not processing well. Take a break or something but please stop saying I’m doing things that I’m clearly not doing.
I like how Basic is acting like the victim right now. Typical repug playbook.
” I post at 1:53 and then get hammered” Are you drinking a lot? What are you getting hammered on?
You are feeling “triggered”. Sorry, not sorry. After dealing with the F your feelings crowd for some years now – you are no longer immune to retribution for beligerent comments.
No because maga fascists were only living under rocks – waiting for the next great nefarious Anti-Christ to take it’s form and allow racism, homophobia, violence, oppression, bullying to become normalized – and that ugly form turned out to be a fat, bald orange man with a hair piece spewing hate. Like Archie Bunker times 1 million. The ugliness crawling under rocks for decades reared its ugly head. At least they’ve shown their true colors so we can see the darkness and document it before they are forced back in their holes.
GT- What belligerent comment? The one you’re responding to? I think you’ve made Basics’ point.
Sac- Sorry I was off topic before. Nope. I blame crime on the dumbasses committing it. Personal responsibility. Let the DV’s come!
If this happened in another city in another state, the police would have shot the person. No arrest, going to trial and no jail or prison time. Unless they survived the gunshot wounds, which in some cases when the police do shoot suspects they do not survive. Makes national news and saves the taxpayers $$$$$$$ from the suspect going to trial. The SBPD did not shoot the suspect and was arrested, they will go to jail or a mental facility, then to court at the expense of the SB taxpayers and the suspect will get a little slap on the wrist by the judge and assign a kumbaya case worker or a social worker for the suspect if they have mental issues. Typical SB in handling these type of cases. OK folks! Hit me with the arrow down for my comment! Make my day!
GIMLI – so….. to save taxpayers $$ we should just shoot and kill all criminals?
A genius level post. GIMLI must be an Ultra MAGA. After all, only the bestest, most bigly minds can think like this… One might even call him Woke. Yeah, that’s it. He’s woke that why he gets it.
Hey now GT, you’re showing your true colors. Yikes.
Fighting Fascism is bad according to you. Thanks for outing champ!
CONSERVATIVE – do they not steal ambulances or commit any crimes in conservative towns? They’re all crime free, you say?
Maybe the guy who stole the ambulance was thinking of going into business. Hauling people to the hospital for a discounted rate of $3,500
The anecdote about the $4,500 cost for the AMR ride illustrates how much the street drug addicts and alcoholics cost taxpayers. I’d be interested how much the City of SB pays AMR to roll out on a call that does not result in transport.
I think there’s a lesson to be learned from this Eastsider stealing an ambulance. Maybe the guy is not an Eastsider, but he certainly wearing the uniform…..pretty easy to spot if you pay attention to such things.
GeneralTree has every right to be upset with his life, and he is well within his rights to post exactly how he feels about how things are going. Most guys w-a-n-t to come across as “macho” for some reason. Macho….now that’s a good word to describe a certain person. GT is correct as things ARE going poorly, from inflation, deficit, huge spike in crime, DAs not prosecuting felonies, and for most folks a huge drop in quality of life. It seems our pols are more interested in dividing us at every turn. Californians as a whole are for the most part not respected across the country, except in a couple of states. Have any of you traveled outside of the country recently? I’m not talking about out of the country like an all-inclusive gated-resort colony in Cancun. People cannot believe what our extremely weak leaders are doing. Of course, they’re all for the a$$istance we are giving Ukraine (btw, about half those dollars are going down the rabbit hole). It’s ludicrous to actually believe that the reason we’re in this big mess is because someone likes to eat Chik-fil-A, or voted for a certain orange president a few years ago. Half the country are facists….Really?
“GeneralTree has every right to be upset with his life”. I have a perfectly happy life, full of family, and am well off financially. But keep up the fascist word salads. I’m guessing your house is dark and your pots are cold.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/myths-and-realities-understanding-recent-trends-violent-crime
is way more balanced a read than the “Red State Murder Problem”
Lets look inside the numbers Mississippi population 3M.
City of Jackson , Mississippi led by Chokwe Antar Lumumba (Democratic Party) who vowed to make Jackson, Miss. “the most radical city in America” homicides doubled from 2019 to 2020. In 2020 , Jackson pop. 130K accounted for over 1/4 of the states total homicides (128) and eclipsed that record by 2 (130) by Novermber 1 2021 and finished 2021 with (150).
So removing Jackson population and homicides from Mississippi’s total spreads the remaining (300) homicides over 2.85M people. You can go down the list of the largest cities in Misssissippi and check for political control, check actual homicide numbers and come to your own conclusions.
Another of the most dangerous cities in America is blue run Memphis, Tennessee which accounted for 342 of the Tennessee murders. Total murders in Tennessee was 662, so pop. 1.2M Memphis has half of Tennesee pop. 7M Homicides.
Louisiana
New Orleans pop. 1M had 218 murders
Baton Rouge pop. 745K had 114 murders
Shreveport pop. 190K had 90 murders
These three accounted for over 1/2 of all of Louisiana (730) murders but less than 1/2 the population
Missouri pop. 6.1M
723 Murders
Kansas City (244) pop 500K
St Louis (195) pop 305K
These two blue cities accounted for around 5/8 of the murders and less than 1/6 the population
All of the places you mentioned – voted for Donald. Nice try salad bar.
“homicides doubled from 2019 to 2020”
post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy
“You can go down the list of the largest cities in Misssissippi and check for political control, check actual homicide numbers and come to your own conclusions.”
I conclude that this whole exercise is grossly dishonest. At the very least one must take into account the abysmal (and racist) conditions created in Mississippi by Republican state rule, especially the availability of guns.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2021/07/16/jackson-crime-homicides-increasing-several-reasons-officials-say/7920400002/
“The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence, conducts an annual gun law review and gave Mississippi a score of F. The organization ranked the state the second-highest in the nation in gun death rates for 2020.”
Jackson Mississippi voted for Clinton and Biden. The state is red, the bulk of the murders happen in the very Blue city of Jackson (Democrat Mayor won 90% of the vote)
Crime and Murder are WAY worse in RED Republican controlled states – https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-red-state-murder-problem
There are a handful of commenters on this site who apparently have nothing to do but troll all day long, and bring virtually every topic down to red vs. blue politics, and Trump. They really degrade the quality of Edhat, in my opinion. By the way, “liberals”, it was always the tactic of ultra-patriots and nationalists to say that if you don’t like this country, then leave. There’s nothing “progressive” about that stance, it’s just weak, cheap bullying, which pretty much describes most of the comments from the self-appointed Edhat Squad.
Just because some of us see opportunities to improve our local community, that doesn’t mean we’re “cali haters”. Cmon man…