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1842 - California's first mining district established in SCV; Ygnacio del Valle, chairman [story]
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Crime-HEADER-8Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Santa Clarita Valley Station detectives responded to the 25800 block of Tournament Road to investigate the circumstances surrounding the stabbing assault of a male adult on Wednesday at approximately 9:12 p.m.

Deputies responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call, where a male was attempting to stab numerous people with a knife. Deputies arrived and immediately detained the suspect, Michael Barela, male white 54 years old.

One stabbing victim was located. The male adult victim had been stabbed numerous times in the upper body and was transported to a local hospital where he is being treated for his injuries.

The knife was recovered at the scene. The suspect was arrested for attempted murder.

The investigation is still ongoing.

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74 Comments

  1. Lucy Romero says:

    Man this town is going mad…. Porsche Jones Rosie Romero Arturo Amber Romero

  2. Is it just me… Or has this town gone to hell since that 3 wk old baby was killed last month? It’s like every scum bag has come out of hiding or something…

  3. Dean Botton says:

    I saw the sirens blazing by from SunRise. People are seriously crazy.

  4. David Greedy says:

    What u mean last month things been going down for past 3 months and this is just what the news knows they don’t know about the people getting beat on the streets

  5. Judie K. Pieper Scary in Valencia

  6. All these death and shootings in Valencia area and you guys still think canyon country’s a bad area. I mean I know we had one of that girl but you guys are having alot

    • Renee says:

      Exactly…….precious Valencia and Stevenson Ranch aren’t so wonderful are they. Open your eyes sheepeople…..it’s probably your kid who’s is reeking havoc in this town!

  7. All these death and shootings in Valencia area and you guys still think canyon country’s a bad area. I mean I know we had one of that girl but you guys are having alot

  8. Krissy Kjt says:

    Good lord ppl r nucking futz.

  9. Krissy Kjt says:

    Good lord ppl r nucking futz.

  10. John Chan says:

    Time for Scv sheriff to issue CCW permits

  11. Thanks detective O Neal for doing your job “what ever that is”Santa Clarita sheriff department do something instead of harassing the same people, I mean come on ! Doesn’t it take 5 squad cars to give some one a ticket ??? Tax dollars spent at its best thanks for making dis “the 3rd safest city”

  12. What is going on around here..

  13. What is going on around here..

  14. Dee Rn says:

    We need Special Task Force to take our city back!

  15. Dee Rn says:

    We need Special Task Force to take our city back!

  16. Eddie Moreno says:

    Brace yourselves, here come all the “what is going on in our town” comments

  17. Eddie Moreno says:

    Brace yourselves, here come all the “what is going on in our town” comments

  18. I think y’all should just add “What is going on in the SCV?” to every headline, so we don’t have to read the same thing in the comments, over and over……

  19. I think y’all should just add “What is going on in the SCV?” to every headline, so we don’t have to read the same thing in the comments, over and over……

  20. Lisa Morales!!! Lately is so bad!

  21. Lisa Morales!!! Lately is so bad!

  22. My guess is stuff like this always happened, it’s just the signal and other city outlets have social media now when before one would have had to read a blurb in the actual paper – IF the paper bothered at all using the ad space to run it. 6-8 years ago on my street there was a knife wielding neighbor holed up threatening family members that no less than 10 sheriff units responded and to which the sheriff literally brought the mobile armory to storm the house. But nobody ever heard about it – including the rest of my HOA neighborhood. Today that would be on fb and be interpreted as signaling Armageddon. Just because social media tells us about it doesn’t mean it’s new.

  23. My guess is stuff like this always happened, it’s just the signal and other city outlets have social media now when before one would have had to read a blurb in the actual paper – IF the paper bothered at all using the ad space to run it. 6-8 years ago on my street there was a knife wielding neighbor holed up threatening family members that no less than 10 sheriff units responded and to which the sheriff literally brought the mobile armory to storm the house. But nobody ever heard about it – including the rest of my HOA neighborhood. Today that would be on fb and be interpreted as signaling Armageddon. Just because social media tells us about it doesn’t mean it’s new.

    • Angie Wilroy Hall – you are absolutely 100% correct. The crime rate has dropped significantly over the past 5 years, 10 years, but you wouldn’t know it because most crimes didn’t make the news in the old days. (Or, strictly speaking, in the really old days, like the 1920s and 1930s, when only 3,000 or 4,000 people lived in the entire SCV, you’d hear about every little crime … but as our population exploded in the 1960s-70s-80s, that stopped.)

  24. Gabe Yanez says:

    Man…. this is Our towns year!! More crime in the first two months than like the last 15 years.

  25. Gabe Yanez says:

    Man…. this is Our towns year!! More crime in the first two months than like the last 15 years.

  26. White people going crazy in SCV…lol

  27. White people going crazy in SCV…lol

  28. Things happen everywhere, not just in the scv. Ignorance of some

  29. Chelsea Hatton is this talking about the Mike I think it is? :-/

  30. Here comes .. ‘This awesome town is going to hell” .. Praying n voting will help I hope

  31. David Kern says:

    Michael Kern here’s something for you to post

  32. Sarah Storr says:

    He was a hair stylist at a salon out here!! Scary!!!!

  33. Michael Kern says:

    David Kern – I saw this already. Thanks Darkey

  34. Hahhaa I love the comment by the Canyon Country kid— look who’s living in a crappy neighborhood now, Valencia! Lol

  35. Shane Rosas says:

    Well they keep building and building, eventually crazies will come.

  36. Kory Abel says:

    I like that crime graphic really bringing out the fear in people.. nice

  37. I knew the guy smh…. I had just left 10 mins prior to this incident thank god he stabbed his friend

  38. michelle says:

    Santa Clarita is not going to make the “safest place to live” list anymore. That’s really sad.

  39. so cal guy says:

    5 units jumped to 12 units for a traffic stop on this thread…that’s funny. A felony traffic stop will involve a larger number of units. If the license plate comes back with the registered owner as having any outstanding warrants or past felony convictions, LASD along with every other agency in the state would rather make sure their officers are safe. So you will see what appears to be excessive units at one stop. They are required to wait for back up. You and I do not have a clue as to why that person was stopped or what their history is just by driving by. It is human nature to just “assume: its a routine traffic stop…there is nothing routine about it. Furthermore, until you have experienced what it is like to pull somebody over and walk up to the side of the car without having any clue as to what your about to walk up to…please do not judge. There are many things that go horribly wrong on a single traffic stop.

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