TALES OF ISLA VISTA & BEYOND
May 4, 2009
by Rebecca Carroll

Crime Scene Post-it Note
April 18
A resident of an Isla Vista fraternity house returned home after a night of partying, April 18, to find some of his electronics missing and a mysterious Post-it note on his bedroom door.

"Sorry. We got way too drunk and jacked you," wrote the burglar on a Post-it in curly "female handwriting."

"Your computer is in the bushes," the note concluded.

The victim told authorities he located his iPod and camera the following day in the bushes outside his Isla Vista fraternity, however, his laptop was not there.

Using the Post-it as evidence, authorities are hoping to recover the stolen computer.

P. Freely
April 29
Upon finding a young man, 23, urinating on a wall outside the Isla Vista Medical Clinic at 1:30 a.m., April 29, the obviously intoxicated college student argued he had the right to pee freely.

"It's okay to pee on this building," he said, "I keep them in business by buying burritos."

Apparently, the lost soul thought he was a few blocks away, outside his favorite taqueria.

The Fall Gal
April 18
An affiliate with a UCSB student body government appeared "seemingly indifferent," the report indicated, when his female cohort took the fall for furnishing alcohol to minors at a recent party in Isla Vista.

Loud music and underage drinking led deputies to the Del Playa Drive festivities, April 18, where following protocol they rounded-up possible subjects responsible for providing alcoholic beverages to minors.

"Is this a misdemeanor?" asked one. "If this is a misdemeanor, then I don't want to take responsibility. I can't have a misdemeanor on my record."

When deputies asked the subject why he was overly concerned, he responded, a politician with a misdemeanor on his record is "not good."

Frustrated, the female counterpart chimed in, "I'm responsible, too. Just give me the ticket."

While receiving the ticket, the young woman-perhaps a political hopeful herself someday-began to cry.

Bi-Coastal Careener
April 18
Repeating over and over again that he was staying "in the Hamptons," the young man, 20, was ultimately arrested for public intoxication.

Holding a can of beer and stumbling alone on Del Playa Drive just after midnight, April 18, deputies apprehended the subject before he was injured.

Love Struck
April 24
It was after midnight, April 24, when the young man and his megaphone took to the streets of Isla Vista. But, what was fun and games the first night, became a nuisance on the second.

Fed up with the shenanigans, a neighbor emerged, April 25, pleading the loud mouth turn off his megaphone. Unwilling to listen the man with the megaphone swatted at the neighbor, striking her in the throat.

The boyfriend, who saw his girlfriend attacked by the megaphone man, didn't take the abuse lightly. Clutching a bike lock, the boyfriend began beating the noisy neighbor, hitting him in retaliation numerous times.

When deputies arrived on the scene to find the battered man and his megaphone, the boyfriend was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.

"I saw a man hit the woman I've loved for two years?And I did what I felt I had to do," reasoned the 22-year-old. "I reacted, that's all. And I happened to have an object in my hand when it happened."

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Rebecca Carroll is a Sheriff's Blotter veteran. She can be heard every Monday morning on 92.9 KJEE, sometime around 7:00AM.