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Christian LeMoss Promoted to Lieutenant
The Santa Cruz Police Department is proud to announce the promotion of Lieutenant Christian LeMoss. Lieutenant LeMoss started his career as a Reserve Police Officer. He worked as a Reserve for three...
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Safety Enhancement Zone and Road Closures for Halloween
Halloween is quickly coming. We actually begin lining up all the logistics and preparing for this around April each year. Lt. Warren Barry is the master strategist behind this year’s plan and he is...
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Help Us FInd This Bike Theft Suspect
When it comes to the low-down dirty things you can do….stealing a kid’s bike is one of them. On Monday (September 8th) at about 6:00 PM, we took a report from a 13 year old young man who was at...
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Couple Arrested Again for Felony Violations
The last time we wrote about this couple, they were arrested after Mr. Pineda was found packing around a loaded .45 caliber handgun in his car and Ms. Feurtado was found in possession of heroin and...
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New Phone Scam Pretending to be the Police Department
The Santa Cruz Police Department has been alerted to a new phone scam being perpetrated on parents of UCSC students. Parents of UCSC students have received phone calls where the caller indicates their...
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Alert Citizen Helps us Capture 4 Suspects Breaking Into His Car
4 Suspects were arrested after a homeowner caught them breaking into his car at approximately 4:35 AM this morning. This all happened on Pelton Ave when the homeowner was awakened by the sound of our...
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Halloween 2014 Enforcement Stats and Cases of Interest
No question about it...Halloween 2014 kept us plenty busy!!! From 8:00 AM on October 31stthrough 8:00 AM on November 1st, we handled 400 calls for service. The downtown crowd size was estimated at...
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Veteran's Day Ceremony at City Hall to Honor All Who Served
Mayor Lynn Robinson and County Supervisor Bruce McPherson presided over a combined city/county Veteran’s Day ceremony hosted at City Hall today. The ceremony honored all those who have stood watch...
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Name That Thief is Back.... Help Us Identify a Suspect Stealing a Security...
"Name That Thief"Is BackThis time it is a video round, with a couple of still images to help. You have been remarkable in helping us identify our thieves this year. Let's see if we can identify this...
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Officer Injured Arresting a Hallucinating Suspect
It started like many other calls for service of this nature. The dispatcher reports a suspicious person acting out in the 100 block of Walnut Ave. The type of call you can go to a dozen times on any...
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This morning the Sentinel published an article indicating they had email and Twitter conversations with the suspect in the threats at Santa Cruz High School. A link to the article is...
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Santa Cruz High School Update - Monday November 24th
Our team of detectives worked through the weekend sorting through forensic information. We also continue to work and consult with our Federal colleagues. There is no new information to publicly...
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Pre-Holiday Edition of "Name That Thief"
It is time for our pre-holiday edition of Name That Thief. In this round, you will have two opportunities to…. say it with me…….Name – That – Thief. Case #14S-09631In our first case, we see how...
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Thanks for Donations to Support SCPD K-9 Program
Two years ago the Santa Cruz Police Departments K9 Unit began a fundraising campaign for its Police K9 Unit. The fundraising effort was based on the gracious donation to the K9 Unit by local...
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Weekend Roundup With 2 Cases of Interest
Your weekend roundup features two cases you might find interesting. Here goes:Case #1This case happened around 2:00 AM early Sunday morning. This case involves a bit of a car chase, between our...
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The Storm is Coming....Are You Ready
It is nice to have rain coming our way. According to the latest forecasts, we have a doozy of storm headed our way. This means lots of rain with high winds and long hours for your emergency...
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Update on the Santa Cruz High School Threats Investigation
Here is the latest on the Santa Cruz High School threats case from November 18th. Our investigators continue to work a number of strategies and leads. We had email contact with the person claiming to...
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Storm Related Downed Tree and Rescue
Folks.....if you don't believe in Holiday Miracles....This story might change your mind. Our colleagues at the Fire Department deserve some pretty big kudos for their quick action on this one! This...
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Amazing Detective Work Leads to Arrest of Serial Tagger
It is time to get up on your feet....do "The Wave" and tip your cap to Detective Brian Warren. His excellent work identified and tracked down this serial tagging suspect. Derek Murphy - 21 years old...
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Dayshift Plays Santa and Surprises Victim of a Bike Theft
It all started back on December 20th with a “routine” report of a stolen bicycle. What Officer Brent Northrup learned was that this case was anything but “routine”. The victim in this case was a...
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