Oceano man caught prowling with drugs while leaving kids unattended
Grover Beach police arrested an Oceano man on Thursday who was in possession of heroin and methamphetamine while prowling around homes. At the time of his arrest, the suspect was supposed to be...
View ArticleGrover Beach woman arrested for leaving her kids with prowler
After receiving a citizens’s tip, Grover Beach police located and arrested a mother inside a local Vons grocery store on Wednesday. Kathryn Louise Tatum, 26, was wanted for leaving her three young...
View ArticleGrover Beach police searching for two counterfeiters
Grover Beach police are searching for two women accused of spending counterfeit $50 bills at local businesses on three separate occasions Monday. Officers describe one suspect as a light-skinned...
View ArticleFormer Grover Beach officer facing new charge of manslaughter over dog attack
The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office is filing an additional charge of felony involuntary manslaughter against the former Grover Beach police officer whose dogs attacked and killed a...
View ArticleGrover Beach police arrest teen for stealing phones and computers
A 16-year-old Oceano boy broke into a Grover Beach family’s home Monday night or early Tuesday morning and stole valuable electronic items, according to the Grover Beach Police Department. Around 6:19...
View ArticleThieves drive off with motorcycle trailer in Grover Beach
Multiple suspects stole a motorcycle trailer that contained motorcycle parts from the 900 block of Huber Street on Wednesday morning, according to the Grover Beach Police Department. Surveillance...
View ArticleFormer Grover Beach officer’s dogs chased mailman before deadly attack
Hours before fatally attacking a 64-year-old man and seriously injuring an 85-year-old woman, the dogs belonging to former Grover Beach police officer Alex Geiger broke loose and chased a mailman,...
View ArticleGrover Beach police shoot and kill suspect
Officers shot and killed a man Wednesday night who charged at them with a blunt object, according to the Grover Beach Police Department. Shortly after 10 p.m., police received a report of a disturbance...
View ArticleMan killed by Grover Beach police was trying to score a date
Prior to his death Wednesday night, the man who was shot and killed by a pair of Grover Beach police officers was trying unsuccessfully to get a woman to go out with him. [KSBY] The woman, who...
View ArticleGrover Beach police identify man shot and killed by officers
The Grover Beach Police Department has identified the man whom officers shot and killed last week as Kenneth Alan Eustace, 58. An obituary published by a Grover Beach funeral home states Eustace...
View ArticlePolice searching for serial South County vehicle thief
Amid a rash of auto thefts in San Luis Obispo and South County, police are zeroing in on a 37-year-old man who is evading law enforcement. Since the beginning of July, the CHP and the San Luis Obispo,...
View ArticleGrover Beach woman stabbed to death after lodging complaints
By KAREN VELIE A Grover Beach woman was brutally murdered in her home last week shortly after she complained of alleged wrongdoing at a neighboring church and criminal activity in her neighborhood....
View ArticleArroyo Grande suspects found with counterfeit bills, drugs, stolen gun
Grover Beach police officers arrested a man and woman from Arroyo Grande on Saturday for possession of a stolen gun, counterfeit money and heroin after following up on a tip from a concerned citizen....
View ArticleTeen hops fence at Grover Beach elementary school, prompting lockdown
Officials placed Fairgrove Elementary School in Grover Beach on lockdown Wednesday after a 19-year-old man hopped a fence and started walking around a field on the campus. [Cal Coast Times] Shortly...
View ArticlePolice arrest Grover Beach woman’s son for her murder
Investigators arrested a 26-year-old man on Tuesday who allegedly murdered his mother in her Grover Beach home last month, police said. [Cal Coast Times] On Oct. 25, police officers conducting a...
View ArticlePolice looking for Grover Beach identity thieves
Grover Beach police are searching for two women who allegedly made $1,300 worth of purchases at a Vons grocery store using a stolen bank card. [Cal Coast Times] The suspects made the purchases on Dec....
View ArticleAppellate court overturns $20.8 million award in dog attack case
By JOSH FRIEDMAN An appellate court overturned a decision by a San Luis Obispo County jury that awarded $20.8 million to the elderly woman injured and the family of a man killed in a 2016 Grover Beach...
View ArticleGrover Beach police commander selected to be next chief
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Grover Beach City Manager Matt Bronson has selected Commander Jim Munro to replace Police Chief John Peters, who is retiring, the South County city announced on Thursday. The Grover...
View ArticleGrover Beach police arrest woman driving stolen vehicle
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Grover Beach police officers arrested a woman on Tuesday for allegedly stealing a vehicle. After being alerted to a vehicle that had reportedly been stolen in the Southern California...
View ArticleGrover Beach police ask for help locating person in robbery case
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The Grover Beach Police Department is asking the public for help locating a driver investigators want to speak with about a robbery that occurred on Monday in the South County city....
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