Edhat Staff
By edhat staff
Santa Barbara Police arrested a homeless man for an alleged violent sexual assault and resisting arrest.
Ricky Phillips, a 55-year-old male who experiences homelessness in the City of Santa Barbara, was identified as a suspect in an investigation of a rape and attempted murder at a homeless camp near the railroad tracks at Montecito Street on July 8.
The next day, Santa Barbara Police detectives spotted Phillips in the area of 1500 Bath Street. According to the police department, Phillips violently resisted arrest resulting in additional officers to respond code 3 with lights and sirens. During the struggle, Phillips punched one of the officers in the face before he was secured into handcuffs. Phillips sustained minor injuries in the process, stated the Santa Barbara Police Department press release.
“The Santa Barbara Police Department works in close community partnership with the local non-profit organization, Standing Together to End Sexual Assault (“STESA”). This community partner was called upon to assist in providing confidential counseling and support services to the survivor in this case,” the statement read.
Phillips was booked at the Santa Barbara County Jail for 69 PC – resist arrest with force, 261(a)(2) PC – rape by force or fear of bodily injury, 245(a)(4) PC – assault with a deadly weapon, and 664/187 PC – attempt murder.
Burn in hell!
Would it be appropriate to say this male subject is “ruthless” and “roofless?”
So cool the neighbors we let live in Alameda Park. Great for the kids of the neighborhood…
Poor Ricky was just having a mental breakdown, right sacjon?
We don’t pay our police nearly enough to deal with this human garbage.
A stand-in for Sean Penn….both look like scrotes.
He would make a great character actor if he wasn’t such a scumbag
Too bad he only sustained minor injuries during the arrest process…
This is what you get when you have Paul Casey running the city he said he can’t touch the homeless encampments because of safety and legal reasons what is this then? the byproduct
Paul Casey carries out city council directives. That was not Paul Casey, calling the shots. It was Mayor Cathy Murillo and her merry band of rubber stamp mischief makers.
1:6 “raped” is a bogus claim. 1:6 may have claimed a “sexual assault” which includes a whole range of activities, passive and/or active; or after the fact.
Explain to me again, how giving him a home will fix things?
He has chosen to live illegally on the streets. Therefore, that is his chosen “experience” . “Homelessness” has nothing to do with this. He is experiencing the consequences of his own choices. He is also experiencing the consequences of too many decades of our own failed civic responses to growing numbers of transient squatters. Change the language, because current euphanisms continue the problems and set up another round of failure. Been there, done that too many times. The solution is the state and federal government must re-open lock down care institutions – they can triage patients later into other settings, after a period of close observation. Welfare and social services takes care of those not needing institutional care for addictions or mental health issues. Why beat around the bush and keep calling this something that it is not – “experiencing homelessness”. Time to beat the bushes and transfer this chronic street population directly to state and federal care institutions – the real estate exists, the government workforce loves expansion, and the money exists, just needs to be re-directed. Staring with this three million dollar ” voucher grant”. (aka pretend we are doing something)
Well, get ready for another rousing game of “Find An Excuse!” Let’s see what we have on deck, we have racial inequity, economic inequity, ptsd, rough childhood, covid, rising rents, mental illness, rising home prices and police brutality.
The longshot here is bad behavior, which is something bad people are known to partake in and trust me folks, this IS a bad person. I know this is a far fetched concept, but worth a shot.
Meth could also be on the list, but protections for folks like this prohibit that as one of the excuses in the game. Before I forget, I also have to ask, had enough yet?
City of SB is putting the homeless up in local independent motels/hotels at $100 a night tax free. 20-30 rooms at a time. Nice contracts. Fascinating that the homeless get freebies and pay zero taxes and yet, homeowners who pay taxes, are a positive contribution to our society, take wonderful care of their properties and volunteer can’t rent their extra guest room via AirBNB. Everything is backwards. And, when is SB going to take care of the urine stains up and down State Street and in the stairwells and corners and parking garages????? When are the hanging baskets going to up line State Street and Coast Village so things are beautiful? I had family come to visit and they were “this is gross, dirty, scummy, ghetto” regarding State Street and the parking garages. New leadership is needed. People that know how to run a business, balance budgets, run P&L’s, nurture the tourism industry and business. Even the Mission and other public areas look tired. Upper Village in Montecito which supposed to be upscale and classy barely can grow a plant in a pot. Is it that people don’t care any more and don’t put love and care into things? How about giving the homeless a job cleaning in exchange for the free rooms? What structures are in place to make them contributors verses bleeding heart give them freebies. The truth is “teach a man to fish”, not throw him free fish.
Maybe try spelling right and people might take your dubious opinions more seriously
Look at all these blowhards in the comments making broad strokes with the stereotype brush. As soon as a homeless person does something they flock here to use it to make a point. What absolutely sickening behavior. Do we do the same when a Hispanic gang member stabs someone? When a kid in Isla Vista causes mayhem? When a middle-aged white man scams seniors with investment fraud? No, because their evils do not accurately reflect their peers. For every homeless person causing problems there are many others just trying to get by. One got hired part time as a night guard at the small business a block over from me. Another works doubles as a mechanic and cook living out of their van with a wife and two young kids. Two others were without doubt the kindest and most intelligent individuals I’ve met in my life. Far better than all of the nitwits on these comment sections put together. Shame on you.
Randy.
ah, it’s actually… “spelling correctly” (see how easy it is to make an error?)
We have learned to triage the situation. You must start doing that too, instead of intentionally sabotaging this topic; You are talking about the (1) have nots – our social welfare system is generous in their regard, and long has been. We are talking about the (2) can nots and the (3) will nots. Triage. Such as the person on interest in this thread. He is not a have not (1). He is either a (2 can not and/or a (3) will not. He is currently in lockdown but too bad this happened only after he committed grave harm. Our current system totally fails persons like him since he gets to harm persons first, before he faces a lock down. . Shame on you for undermining serious attempts to finally reach a solution for the (2) can nots and the (3) will nots. Shame on you for distorting the issues, so neither of these groups get help.
talk about a broad stroke – your comment is among the most ignorant we’ve seen…
And we have people who hate the homeless and poor so much it burns within their soul with a fire that cannot be put out so they lie about them condemn them and push them far far away funny thing is that most of their hateful solutions are against the law.. That is good Maybe those people who don’t like the Mayor City Councils solution for the homeless issue should leave. Move somewhere else if you don’t like it here all this complaining is not good for their health…Everyone was enjoying themselves maybe they don’t like people enjoying themselves. They want everyone to be miserable just like they are…From what I saw the Mayor must be doing a good job..I have not heard of a vegetarian or Brush incident in awhile…Quit Spreading the Hate and the lies.
I walked through Alameda Park on Saturday Afternoon and I did not see one negative issue involving the homeless, not one. There were people resting and relaxing there that might have been homeless but no one was doing anything illegal. It was very nice. I saw no tents anywhere not in Alice Keck Park or anywhere in that area…All I see here is negativity and anger.
It is not illegal to sleep outside.
And we’ll get the results that we deserve (like this).
Remarkable that we give a lot of human garbage access to keyboards.
That statement is as fact-based as the claim that the area is riddled with lava tubes.
“homeowners who pay taxes, are a positive contribution to our society”
Some are; others make a net negative contribution.
Sunshine, Well, one of those “great businessmen” tried to get elected as mayor in the 2017 election – Angel Martinez, retired CEO and Chairman of Deckers, but the local Democrat Committee and city unions worked to defeat him and get Murillo elected. It’s no wonder that others won’t even try. At least Randy Rouse, retired local business owner, is willing to try this time.
we’ll continue to vote for whoever the DNC tells us to vote for…
7:59 Institutionalizing people? This guy belongs in jail . Rapists aren’t “causing trouble” for others. They are brutally assaulting another person. He belongs in prison.
I have never seen such a bad mayor and it is really concerning. Why is it that we can’t get a great businessman to run, there are plenty who have retired in the area who are brilliant and can build and create things and make it profitable. I am truly stumped as to why no credible person can take a stand and why we put our homes, businesses, families and community in the hands of people with zero experience. It is embarrassing. I think back to the mudslides and the mayor was MIA, that was one of my first eye openers. Some say she is a puppet and other people are running the show. If that is true, this is a slippery slope. It truly is time for the bad and incompetent to exit. There is just so much stupid going on. If it wasn’t for some of the smart business people in town taking their own initiatives to beautiful and get things done who knows where this place would be.
Yep Roger, you are correct that the City has cracked down on any tents that are there overnight. I say good to that. [Not sure whether or not you agree, but it’s my opinion!].
We also need to get them off the freeway and tracks. Was it an “unhoused neighbor” that yesterday was hit on the 101? … Allowing illegal camping anywhere is helpful to no one, the campers worst of all. If anyone argues with me on that, I’ll just point out the uncanny frequency with which they are turning up arrested, injured, raping or raped, and… dead. We have services and beds available for those that want them RIGHT NOW. Those that don’t can go to Venice, for all I care.