Lost Hills Station names deputy liaison to Calabasas, reports drop in January Part I crimes

Captain Dustin Carr of the Lost Hills Station introduced Deputy Santiago Cienfuegos as the new Calabasas liaison and gave a brief station update at the March 11 Calabasas City Council meeting. Carr said recruiting at the station is up 26% after the department engaged an outside marketing firm, academy graduations have increased into the fifties, and station vacancies have fallen from 33 to 26 since he took command. He invited the public to the station’s open house on May 2 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Deputy Santiago Cienfuegos presented the January 2026 crime report, saying the station recorded 18 Part I crimes in January, down 25% from January 2025. He reported two robberies on the 4800 block of Commons Way; detectives and Lost Hills deputies apprehended two suspects who will be charged. The deputy listed two burglaries (one residential in the Oaks community and one commercial on Commons Way), three grand thefts along Parkway Calabasas and Las Virgenes Road, and two grand theft autos (one on Mulholland Highway and another on Las Virgenes Road). He said detectives are actively investigating those cases to identify and recover property.

Councilmembers and community members asked the deputy to provide contact information and encouraged the station to include solved cases and arrests in future reports so the community sees successes, not just incidents. The deputy said he has the contact information and would make himself available, and agreed to look for ways to include information about arrests and case closures in future reports. The meeting also included requests to add a column about e‑bike enforcement (permitting/violations, age of riders) to future reports; the station said it would follow up.

The council thanked the station for the report and welcomed Deputy Cienfuegos to his new role.