State Street Overdose Death Leads to Arrest
By the Santa Barbara Police Department
On April 29, 2022, Santa Barbara Police Officers were dispatched to the 100 block of State Street for a report of a found body. The deceased 30-year-old male was discovered with narcotics and drug paraphernalia in his possession. The cause of death was determined to be acute fentanyl intoxication.
Over the course of several months, Santa Barbara Police Detectives and the Santa Barbara County District Attorney Investigators investigated this death. Detectives learned during their investigation Dillon James Joseph Johnson, a 34-year-old Santa Barbara resident was identified as the suspect that had distributed the decedent the fentanyl that caused his death.
A Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge authorized a search warrant associated with this case. It is believed that Johnson directly supplied the deadly drug to the decedent that caused his death.
After months of investigation, On September 1, 2022, Santa Barbara Police Detectives served the warrant and arrested Johnson in the 7100 block of Hollister Avenue, Goleta. A search after his arrest revealed quantities of fentanyl and other narcotics that constitute possession with the intent to distribute.
Johnson was booked at the Santa Barbara County Jail for murder, and numerous felony narcotic violations. His bail was set at $1,000,000. The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against Johnson and his arraignment is scheduled for today in Department 8 of the Santa Barbara Superior Court.
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Sep 08, 2022 09:04 AMEver heard of 'Scared Straight'??? How about SCARED DEAD!!! How about getting kids some actual education about drugs and their bodies?? They need to be told that just Because JOHNNY had a great trip on whatever he was getting high on DOES NOT MEAN that drug will have the same effect on YOU. Its CHEMISTRY bitches!! Inform your kids, preferably in a school - biology setting that won't get parents in an uproar about teaching kids about drugs. Invite OD survivors who have had friends who have died. Let THEM tell the story!!
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Sep 08, 2022 09:58 AM9:04 - That's a great idea actually! Thing is, most teens won't listen to their teachers or school. It's up to the parents to really nail this. Given my experiences in my youth, I have plenty of knowledge about most substances and was able to truly inform my kids about them. We're not going to be able to stop kids from trying drugs, its human nature, but we CAN help them understand the realities of drug use. BUT.... we have to be honest. Smoke a joint won't turn you into an addict. A hit of LSD won't make you fly out of a window or make you think you turned into a "glass of orange juice." A night of cocaine will hurt and will always be miserable in the end. Stay the F away from heroin, meth, pills and other opiates! Etc etc..... Scary thing now is though, you never know what's in your pill or powder. It's a Russian Roulette every time these days it seems. Stick with natural substances if you want to get high and be safe.
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Sep 07, 2022 07:54 PMSACJON And any one else. This is just one site google it and open your minds to what is going on. I have friends working in the border patrol you would be shocked at what is going on. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/fentanyl-seizures-u-s-southern-border-rise-dramatically-n1272676
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Sep 08, 2022 08:23 AMMEBK - yes, very aware of the problem with fentanyl coming across the border. Definitely needs to be stopped! I think you might have the wrong impression of me due to VOICE's outright lies based on preschool level logic and my objection to DOULIE and COASTWATCH saying Biden has "refused to address" the crisis, which is a lie.
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Sep 07, 2022 05:30 PMJimmy Carter started the emptying out of our psychiatric institutions.
Reagan had just become Pres.,I was working at Camarillo state hospital right after Reagan was elected and we were told to finish up the contract we had because they were going to close it and put those people in "halfway houses" with funding for 5 yrs. or something like that.
Look what a shit idea that was.
Now the property is UCCI where we used to house those folks.
Of course the population has tripled since then.
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Sep 07, 2022 01:50 PMWhat happened under Reagan is (if you're willing to be serious about details) a wonderful entree into how complicated this issue was and is. The well-intentioned, government designed and managed institutions were a nightmare. {Kinda like prisons are now.} Please remember that 'asylum' was once a very PC word, and those 'hospitals' were considered very progressive... until they weren't.
Likewise, letting seriously mentally ill folks loose on the streets, cause laissez-faire you know, was also complete nightmare. {Kinda like it is/would be now.}
It's almost like these issues defy the narrow left/right talking points, which always seems to culminate in blaming the other side for the existence of fundamentally hard problems.wouldn't exist except for those gosh-darned {insert other political party label here}.
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Sep 07, 2022 11:20 AMHas everybody got problems?
Are you stuck in a dead end job?
Frustrated and dissatisfied?
Are you on the edge of suicide?
Terrorist bombers on the left, (Left!)
Fascist plots on the right, (Right!)
Mass destruction and homicide,
Are you horrified and terrified?
Such a shame.
We all got problems we know,
There one thing that's for sure,
There's one cure for all your hangups and all your depressions.
Have another drink it'll make you feel better,
Have another drink and you will feel alright.
If you feel down and you're under the weather
Have another drink and you'll feel alright.
- Ray Davies from The Kinks from their 1975 concept album 'Soap Opera -
Everyone who posts their comments (including myself) need to hit the bars to have many drinks because of these very stressful articles on edhat. "Have another drink!"
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Sep 07, 2022 09:09 AMGeneral Tree: You're absolutely right about Regan's de-funding of Mental Health Treatment. Our country's mental health system has never recovered from that. Which is of course, one of many causes of the problem that we're seeing now. But, you're absolutely wrong about which political party's recent leadership has been better about dealing with the influx of undocumented immigrants, and all of the things that they bring with them across our porous southern border, i.e. the Biden administration is utterly bereft of action or plan to secure our country's borders. If you think otherwise, you're not paying attention.
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Sep 07, 2022 05:24 PMWikipedia isn't really a "fact check" service, especially when the there's a huge warning on the page saying:
"! This article needs additional citations for verification.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Lanterman–Petris–Short Act" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR"
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Sep 07, 2022 05:14 PMHere is a fact check on the “Regan shut down mental health facilities in the 1960s and it’s still his fault over fifty years later” myth. The Lanterman–Petris–Short Act, named for the bipartisan team of two democrats and one republican who authored, it was passed by the democrat controlled state legislature and signed into law by governor regan in 1967.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterman%E2%80%93Petris%E2%80%93Short_Act
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Sep 07, 2022 11:03 AMTHE REASON Mental Health Institutions were SHUT DOWN during Reagan's term as Governor was that the ACLU WAS GOING TO SUE THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, their reasoning being you can not keep non criminals incarcerated, it's against their "constitutional rights".... CLUE IN
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Sep 07, 2022 07:36 AMBorder Patrol sees increase in fentanyl trafficking
Aug 30, 2022( NewsNation) — New drug seizures along the U.S.-Mexico border include fentanyl and opioids that are up to 100 times more powerful than morphine. More than 3.5 million fentanyl pills were seized in Arizona alone in just August. That is enough fentanyl to kill nearly every single person living in the state of Connecticut
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Sep 07, 2022 10:52 AMNewsNation??? Try to find a non-troglodyte source!
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Sep 06, 2022 09:09 PMSo Angry!
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Sep 06, 2022 08:58 PMRepubliKan GOP cesspool did nothing to help the problem when the orange nazi was in power except blame everything on Obama.
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Sep 07, 2022 02:51 PM"You're literally defending drug cartels" dumbest effing thing I've ever seen you write here yet.
No bro, you're over the line. You're beyond any semblance of reason. My God man. You finally sunk to the dumbest statement I've seen in a while.
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Sep 07, 2022 02:46 PMYou're literally defending drug cartels that kill innocent people domestically and abroad, sex traffic young children, murder the family's of politicians in their country who dare stand up to them, and smuggle deadly poison into the United States causing the deaths of tens of thousand of people all to prove me wrong. But they aren't terrorist because they do it for.... greed, however, if they did for an ideological ideal (other than greed) they would be terrorists. Wow. Just wow. Keep it coming.
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Sep 07, 2022 01:53 PMHere's the one-word answer to your inability to understand the difference between drug dealers and Al Qaeda: Motive.
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Sep 07, 2022 01:51 PMVOICE - Wow, you're brilliant! You're right, it's SO EASY! A real no brainer, right? Lol......
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/terrorism
https://www.state.gov/executive-order-13224/
You see, drug dealing and sex trafficking is done for the purpose of the criminal making money. It's a "business," not an ideological, political, religious, etc statement/attack or intimidation. You don't get to just call every criminal a terrorist. Words and definitions matter.
You're so much smarter than everyone, you should run for Grand Leader!
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Sep 07, 2022 01:33 PMOkay I'll bite, how are drug cartels that murder people in their locale and abroad, traffic humans sexually and otherwise, smuggle arms, and traffic deadly poison into our country NOT terrorists? What is the a difference between a bomb and a deadly poison? From anthrax and fentanyl? What makes a group in Yemen plotting to kill Americans different than the cartel, who aren't just plotting but actually and actively killing Americans? What is the difference other than their nationality? Speaking changing definitions of the words, that a rather common and unfortunate tactic these days but we'll save that for another time....
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Sep 07, 2022 11:50 AM" simply because if Trump is for it, the left is against it." - Not true at all. Half the things he proposed were illegal under federal and/or international law, such as summarily executing criminals in foreign countries. Drug dealers are not terrorists, they're horrible criminals, but cannot be designated as terrorists unless you change the definition of the word, which would then allow us to assassinate criminals in other countries and thereby denying them due process of law.
The fact that you truly think this idea was opposed just because of who he was shows you have no concept of our laws. Great books out there to read if you truly want to learn.
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Sep 07, 2022 11:18 AMThe "orange nazi" floated designating the cartels terrorist organizations (which they are) so we could drone strike their compounds and drug labs. But of course like everything he tried to do it was vehemently opposed by the left, not because it's right or wrong or it would work or not work, simply because if Trump is for it, the left is against it. Crazy we have no problem (well I have a problem) drone striking and sending in special forces halfway around the world to kill people who could potentially attack and kill US citizens yet do have a problem doing it to the cartels south of the boarder actively killing US citizens and trafficking sex slaves (and minor sex slaves!!) through our borders. And of course there was the few billion for the wall that was so strenuously fought (but nearly $100billion for Ukraine...) but you're totally right GT, he didn't do try to do anything.....
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Sep 06, 2022 08:29 PMSac the post they censored, you apparently did not see so mind your own biz.
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Sep 07, 2022 04:04 PM@Voice - if ed followed the comment policies to a "T" there wouldn't be any comments left. They're lenient on some things but I've noticed more strict on immature insults between commenters, overt misinformation, and racist/sexist/homophobic/xenophobic sentiments. Turns out, a lot of the later comes from our conservative commenters.
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Sep 07, 2022 02:49 PMVOICE - so what? It's a private company. If they want to be "selective" and pick on you and your buddies because of the things you say, so what? They can choose what to remove without owing you any explanation. You think my comments would remain up on Parler? Gads man, quit the incessant crying!
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Sep 07, 2022 02:35 PMThe Trump Administration should also be charged with murder!
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Sep 07, 2022 02:15 PMAs mentioned below, it is the selective application of the TOS. Nothing was said about the TOS being unfair. You really need to stop trying to argue with people based on who they are or who you think they are rather than the actual words they use.
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Sep 07, 2022 11:23 AMVOICE at 11:05 - with the amount you complain about the TOS being unfair, it's surprising you're still here, every day, all day. The deleted comment violated the following:
4. No discussion of National politics - this board is for local issues only.
11. Off-topic comments will be deleted. Please keep the conversation focused on the issued discussed in the article.
And now YOUR comment violates this one:
5. Any comments discussing Edhat editorial policy or business practices will be deleted. Email us directly at ed@edhat.com with your concern instead of detracting from the conversation.
I get deleted all the time. It's not one-sided, no matter how bad you want it to be.
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Sep 07, 2022 11:05 AMSelective application of the TOS and moderation only on one side or opinion is censorship. EdHat's TOS allows it's own censorship, it doesn't mean it isn't occurring.
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Sep 06, 2022 08:46 PMHey genius, we've explained why it's not censorship. And yes we have seen them. And Sac (and I) have also had comments deleted. Put on your big boy pants and stop whining.
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Sep 06, 2022 08:43 PMBDM - don't me mad for getting called out. I see the post right there in the Penalty Box. Pretty obvious.
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Sep 06, 2022 05:47 PMMaybe if we had a fentanyl death counter on the news everyday like we did with covid people would take this public health crisis more seriously.
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Sep 07, 2022 10:03 AMGeneral - Wasn't it a couple years ago AOC was hollering the world was coming to an end in twelve years? Which republican(s) talk about the "end of times?" Can you, and a majority of Americans honestly say you are living better since Biden took office?
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Sep 07, 2022 08:00 AM11674 - As was done in Vietnam, a body count will be inflated.
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Sep 06, 2022 07:25 PMDeaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily fentanyl) continued to rise with 56,516 overdose deaths reported in 2020. In May 2022, Covid had killed over 1,0000 people. So there's that.
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Sep 06, 2022 07:16 PMMaybe if repuglicans would just stop saying the end of times is coming and stick their heads in the sand maybe they could play a role in fixing something?
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Sep 06, 2022 07:01 PMNot a bad idea.
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Sep 06, 2022 05:36 PMCensorship alive and well on Edhat!
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Sep 07, 2022 04:31 PMHow does Randy get credit for this?
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Sep 07, 2022 07:39 AMThe article is about the arrest of a local drug dealer, looks like a win for Randy and Santa Barbara.
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Sep 06, 2022 07:18 PMCensorship? You mean the Terms of Service you agreed to when you created your account? If you want to spew garbage, nonsense, hate and violence - then go on Truth Social and post away before they are completely bankrupt.
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Sep 06, 2022 07:00 PMThe First Amendment gives private entities the right to decide what they will or won't publish.
https://publicknowledge.org/content-moderation-is-not-synonymous-with-censorship/
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Sep 06, 2022 06:05 PMI thought Randy Rowse was going g to make the streets and parks safer.
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Sep 06, 2022 05:51 PMBDM - that's not censorship, it's capitalism. Would you prefer the government dictate terms to private companies?
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Sep 06, 2022 05:47 PMBDM in all fairness the comment was off topic as the murder charge should be from war crimes relating to the drone strike that killed a family of innocent men, women and children during the disastrous Afghan withdrawal as a murder charge for fentanyl deaths due to his lackadaisical stance on the boarder is a stretch.
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Sep 06, 2022 12:13 PMFentanyl continues to KILL thousands of Americans and it almost all comes through our Southern Border, yet the current Administration refuses to address this huge issue.... Go figure.
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Sep 07, 2022 11:28 AM"More drugs than ever have come across since Biden took office." - Prove it.
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Sep 07, 2022 11:20 AMTake your head out of the sand. There are basically open borders. More drugs than ever have come across since Biden took office.
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Sep 07, 2022 11:19 AMTake your head out of the sand. There are basically open borders. More drugs than ever have come across since Biden took office.
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Sep 07, 2022 10:24 AMDOULIE and COAST - Why do I have to prove Biden has not refused to do anything? It was your comment, YOU prove it. Refusing to address something is not the same as not doing enough or not doing what you think he should do. Reading words is important.
Prove he has "refused to address" the fentanyl crisis. YOUR words.
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