District Attorney

District Attorney Dan Dow issues a statement regarding the Kristin Smart investigation.

SLO County DA’s Office and the Cal Poly Cybersecurity Institute team up to provide information and resources to the community in April.

Shortly before 5:00pm, a San Luis Obispo County jury returned guilty verdicts on all 13 counts including sexual crimes and burglary involving five female victims, including four college students, from San Luis Obispo.

Chelsea A. Stiles (27) has been ordered to serve 15 years and eight months in state prison for her conviction of multiple offenses including gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, which resulted in the death of Terry Tilton (72) of San Luis Obispo.

District Attorney Dan Dow announced today that Joy Wilde (DOB 04/16/1978) has been sentenced to serve 10 years and four months in state prison following her plea of no-contest to 18 counts of embezzlement, two counts of forgery and one count of attempted embezzlement.

Today, District Attorney Dan Dow sent a letter to the California Senate Public Safety Committee in opposition to SB 82 that will reduce the violent felony of unarmed robbery to a misdemeanor with a maximum punishment of six months actual custody in a county jail.

A San Luis Obispo County jury has returned a unanimous guilty verdict convicting Lucion Lee Edward Banks (37) of human trafficking a 14-year-old female victim in 2018 in San Luis Obispo, District Attorney Dan Dow announced today.

Today, the 2nd District Court of Appeal ordered that the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Appellate Division (a panel of three Superior Court Judges) will hear the Attorney General's and District Attorney's appeals of Judge Matthew Guerrero's earlier recusal decision.