Sheriff's Lost Hills Station reports reduced vacancies, introduces new Calabasas liaison deputy

Captain Dustin Carr of the Lost Hills Station updated the Calabasas City Council on March 11, saying the station’s recruiting is up about 26 percent and academy graduating classes have grown from the teens and low 20s to roughly the 50s. He said station vacancies have fallen from 33 to 26 since he took command and announced a station open house on May 2 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Carr formally introduced Deputy Santiago Cienfuegos as the city liaison. Deputy Cienfuegos gave the council the station’s January 2026 crime report, saying there were 18 Part I crimes that month, down roughly 25 percent from the prior year. He reported two robberies on the 4800 block of Commons Way for which detectives and Lost Hills deputies arrested two suspects; two burglaries (one residential in the Oaks community and one commercial on Commons Way); three grand thefts and a total of 12 thefts, many vehicle‑related, concentrated along Mulholland Highway, Las Virgenes Road and Calabasas Road.

Mayor and council members welcomed the new deputy. Several council members asked the station to include solved cases and arrests in future reports to give the public a fuller sense of law enforcement outcomes, rather than only incidents. Councilmember Peter also asked whether the deputy could speak at homeowners’ association and community events; Deputy Cienfuegos said he would provide contact information and is available for such engagements.

Deputy Cienfuegos and Captain Carr are scheduled to appear at a public crime symposium on Monday, March 16, at 6 p.m., where speeding, exhaust/sound complaints and e‑bike enforcement on Mulholland will be discussed. The council did not take formal action on the presentation.