Edhat Staff
(Photo: Santa Barbara Police Department)
A 24-year-old man was arrested after allegedly kidnapping a raping a woman, then burglarizing two different local businesses.
Kahlil Byers was recently arrested for burglary, rape, and kidnapping with a bail set at $1,000,000.
Byers is accused of harassing a woman trying to sleep in an alcove in the downtown Santa Barbara area on April 18, 2018. The victim tried to escape with her belongings when Byers chased her down and forcibly dragged her down a driveway before assaulting her in the first block of E. Carrillo Street around 5:00 a.m.
According to KEYT News, a passerby eventually pulled his car into an adjacent parking lot and illuminated the crime scene which allowed the victim to escape when Byers ran away. Investigating the scene, police discovered items from a Foot Locker and pawn shop burglaries that took place hours earlier.
Santa Barbara Police responded to the Foot Locker store in the Paseo Nuevo Mall after 2:00 a.m. where the front window was shattered with merchandise missing. Then, an alarm went off at Santa Barbara Jewelry pawn shop on 136 E. Victoria Street where a window was broken with items stolen. Police suspect Byers to be responsible for both burglaries and thefts, report KEYT News.
When he gets released next month, maybe he could move into Gov. Jerry Brown, Hannabeth Jackson or Das Williams neighborhood…
Citizens in Ventura have the right attitude about vagrant street crime – they are investigating its cumulative drain on local fiscal and manpower resources, and the dual justice system it has created, resulting in unfair advantage granted to vagrants over other tax-paying citizens. Choosing to live on the streets is inherently unsafe and unhealthy, which creates sufficient cause to appoint a court conservator who will make better decisions for these people. Follow what is happening right now in Ventura – they are leading the way for real change.
Vagrants can pitch a tent, litter, urinate and defecate anywhere they want. Property owners are under strict and often punitive zoning regulations. Property owners pay large taxes every year which forms a large part of the city’s revenues. Vagrants can live and vote here, but pay nothing while obtaining very generous social service benefits. Two examples of a dual system of justice due to residential, property owning status and vagrancy status. This list grows quickly when you start thinking the vagrancy privilege card.
Actually there are people I know who have lived outside for many years never got in any trouble and prefer the great outdoors. For some folks it is healthy.