Owner of iV Menus Arrested on 3 Felony Charges of Rape, Pleads Not Guilty
By Maura Fox, Jose Ochoa and Supriya Yelimeli
December 21, 2017 at 3:44 pm
The owner of iV Menus, an Isla Vista food delivery business, was arrested on four felony charges on Dec. 18. He is currently booked at the Santa Barbara County Jail.
Patrick Galoustian, 45, a UC Santa Barbara alumnus, has owned and operated iV Menus since 2008.
He was arrested on charges of kidnap to commit robbery or rape, rape of drugged victim, and two counts of oral copulation by use of force or injury.
Galoustian pled “not guilty” during his arraignment on Wednesday morning, according to Deputy District Attorney Wesley Meyer.
His bail is currently set at $1 million, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office inmate website.
Kelly Hoover, Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office spokesperson, said Galoustian was arrested in connection to a rape that occurred on Dec. 17. The UCSB Police Department received the report of the rape on Dec. 18, according to a “timely warning” that UCSB sent to students on Dec 19.
According to the alert, a suspect sexually assaulted a female victim while she was unconscious at his residence, 910 Embarcadero del Norte.
Galoustian lives at this address and operates iV Menus from his home. Businesses at this address include Campus Cuts, Dublin’s Sports Grill, Precious Slut Tattoo and iV Menus.
The alert said neither the victim nor the suspect are affiliated with UCSB.
iV Menus was closed on Tuesday, according to an iV Menus employee.
Galoustian taught a beginner’s taekwondo course with 16 students at Santa Barbara City College in 2007. According to course catalogs from SBCC, Galoustian has not taught the course since the summer of 2007.
His criminal history is limited to six traffic infractions, one non-vehicle infraction and one small claims settlement, according to the Santa Barbara Superior Court website.
Galoustian’s next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 11.
I’ve never understood how it’s constitutionally legal for the gov to release all this info to newspapers before the person is convicted of a crime. Seems unconstitutional and a violation of that person’s basic human rights. I mean I know this guy and he’s an asshole who probably did it but to release all this to the public before a trial seems to be punishing him for a crime we aren’t sure he commited.
How do you feel about releasing police body camera footage before someone is convicted?
What the government produces is all public record at some point. California law mandates the release of some information immediately (Clery Act for example). The release of information doesn’t violate any constitutional law that I can think of.
Yeah why would I think that is okay. I’m referring to the fifth amendment. I would say that this is the government punishing you for a crime you didn’t necessarily commit. You may say “well hey they did say he was only accused derpy derp derp” but in reality the people who have their faces plastered up like this and are found not guilty are going to feel the punishment for the rest of their lives when it comes to employment and a social life. Like I said Patrick’s a prick but imagine if this was someone else who was… Read more »
It’s public information the charges he is accused with, and newspapers can easily access any records. Doesn’t mean he’s guilty or non-guilty. How a news publication presents it is another story. These are facts.
Anyway, wouldn’t you want to know if somebody you’re about to hire for a hypothetical 6-month, intensive work assignment is about to be on a serious trial? Even if he was not guilty, he’d be extremely occupied with such a trial, no?
True
‘Unconstitutional’
Have you ever read the constitution before my dude? Because nothing that this article does violates it in any way.
Yes I’m referring to the fifth amendment.
Agreed!
“Some dude” I FEEL YOU….I THINK ITS BULLSHIT! IF WE ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY THEN WHAT’S WITH THIS SLANDEROUS ARTICLE!? ….
ONCE HE’S PROVEN GUILTY, THE THEY CAN WRITE THEIR STOR….until THEN I THINK IT’S INAPPROPRIATE AT BEST
Doesn’t make sense?
All speculations must be what they are, speculations.
The fact that there are accusations (true or false) and the fact that he had pleasant relations and not so pleasant relations with certain people does not justify his faith and conviction,not guilty until proven so, let’s not forget that.
Probable cause for arrest is not mere speculation.”Not guilty until proven”applies to trials. Public opinion is not bound by the court rules. When anecdotes pile up for years and years and people are coming forward, we know there is a problem. But yes we cannot send some one up except after a trial in which Not Guilty until proven so applies as the basic rule of the courtroom. But public opinion is not the court and in the court of public opinion, this situation is not exactly a poster child in how to run a food joint. At the very… Read more »
Girl gets too drunk & high……has sex, regrets it and goes tells police he raped me…..this is bs news
Guy gets to drunk and high, thinks that because she is drunk and high she wants it too and has sex with her when she not really conscious… there’s multiple ways the story can be told… don’t go blaming the victim
On a side note from my original rant, victim blaming is a terrible concept. In America we have this thing called the rights of the accused. You may not like that but it’s the only system that has been shown time and time again to conducive with the ideals of a free society. I know my current generation wants to move to a system where we just Willy Nilly through people into the Gulag whether they are guilt or innocent of a crime, but we live in a civil, free society for now and until the trial especially in a… Read more »
Yes I read through what I wrote and yes there are obvious grammatical errors.
Thank you so much, in my case I got too drunk and passed out and woke up to the guy (not this one) having sex with me. Pushed him off me and left. That is total Rape because I didn’t have the ability to say yes or no. Besides he wss gross and I was at a party in would have never touched him with a ten foot pole.7
Really I woman I witnessed him attempt to assault was sober. Yet too terrified to seek help because of people like you. Thanks.
Seriously, unconstitutional? May I suggest you read Flagler Live some time, that’s the newspaper from Flagler, FL & they print ALL the details. This reporting here is kind of vague & hyper-pc. Check Flagler Live some time & then get back to us about “constitutionality.”
Seriously, rape? May I suggest you read about Bill Cosby, that’s the guy who raped dozens of women. Compared to that Patrick Galoustian is Jesus. Check out Bill Cosby’s sexual endeavors some time & then get back to us about “rape”.
Are you seriously saying that it’s not ok to say rape because bill Cosby raped far more? LOL. Pretty sure a lot of rape doesn’t make some rape ok. These relative comparisons don’t actually make sense. “This first guy killed 3 people but this other guy killed 20 people, so the first guy is a saint”? Saying that one is worse is pointless
Lol I was just showing how stupid the argument before me was and yes that’s why I thought the argument I was making fun of was dumb.
Yes this person or thing is way worse than this person or thing is not an argument was my main point.
If you guys were “raped” you would be on this discussion talking like this
Yeah I probably would.
Well actually probably not cuz I’m a dude and I’d more than likely be in jail.
Wouldn’t*
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Glad they finally caught him. I have personally been trying to bring him down for years. My karate instructor Duane Erdman at SBCC first tipped me off that he was a sexual predator. Up until then Patrick and I were good friends. I took ample evidence to the IV police dept. and got nowhere. I will be contacting the detective on the case.
This guy has been luring drunk tweens into his little home operation for too long. He shud now get picked in jail for 15 years
Dicked
diked*
Alright, let’s cut to the chase here. What was a “passed out woman” doing in his “residence” to begin w/? If the word was out the guy was a predator, why would ANY woman want to even set foot in his place? Then there’s the time of the incident. Sunday night? There’s a lot of stuff NOT adding up here. Not that the guy ain’t creepy or may have predatory tendencies, but you just got to wonder. The “kidnap” charges, kind of odd if in fact the woman WENT to his residence. If she was held against her will, that… Read more »
yeah it’s all a conspiracy!
No conspiracy in any way. IV bum drug culture. Hell, how else would a 19 year old chick going to UCSB get involved w/ a guy like The Rabbit? Cocaine, it’s a hell of a drug.
The word wasn’t out so to speak. IV constantly has an influx of new young people that don’t know anyone or what is going on. That’s probably why he liked it there. He used his dogs to lure people in his house. This guy is a highly educated former professional martial artist turned proffesional predator. Of course IV is known for drinking etc..
The word wasn’t out so to speak. IV constantly has an influx of new young people that don’t know anyone or what is going on. – Touche.
Wow you ass holes have some information way off. People like you who have no facts and make shit up to fit your narrative disgust me. I truly wish you could be in someone elses shoes and then see what its like… Dumb fuckers… PAT DIDN’T WANT TO SELL AND SO UCSB GOT HIM ATTESTED. I MEAN THE CABAL IS REAL LOOK IT UP UCSB acquisition: A building at 910 Embarcadero del Norte, home to Dublin’s Sports Grill, a Thai restaurant, tattoo parlor and hair salon, is in escrow for sale to the university. The property, last assessed at $1.4… Read more »
Let’s cut to the chase: you are an idiot. “What was a “passed out woman” doing in his “residence” to begin w/” how about the woman overdosed on alcohol and collapsed that’s what. Doesn’t mean she deserves to get penetrated while junconscious and maybe get aids, hepatitis whatever.
Nobody said the victim deserved what happened. What WAS said was this:
If you KNOW this dude is a sexual predator, why in the actual hell would YOU want to go in there?
It’s a QUESTION & NOT a STATEMENT! Comprehension, not YOUR strong suit. SBCC perhaps?
First of all I know this guy first hand and he was not supposed to be living in his place he was illegally using his business as a place he did not have a shower and he used his dogs to Laurin girls he was a sick f*** and it was not a conspiracy if anything they waited too late and he had been doing this already for years and years and years whoever this person is trying to cast out is obviously with their family or their legal team or probably the perpetrator himself this is not some f******… Read more »
Kaptain, nobody’s saying the guy isn’t creepy, shady or had the potential to be a predator. All that’s being said is there’s a little network of these guys in town that ARE in cahoots w/ each other. Did you know a couple of years ago the Rabbit was being investigated by the popo for draining out a 19 year old UCSB chick’s credit card while he was banging her? No, you didn’t, did you? Seems like said young lady had a penchant for crack & she knew who could supply it… for a fee that is. I’m demoting you down… Read more »
You are a very sick person if you believe that Pat had dogs to lure in young woman for sex… Wtf He was a broke guy trying to build his business. Guess what dumb bitch. Sometimes you may have to.chose to get a home or make do to.keep your biz.growing.. Fucking good.for.nothing broad
There is no conspiracy and I highly doubt that the wizard is in on any conspiracy whoever posted that comment is a complete buffoon the wizard and those guys he’s talking about our crazy homeless guys who may be slinging crack rock this was a non-affiliated young girl who was taken advantage of and raped what does it have to do with over bums
Kaptain, sorry to burst your self-righteous bubble of buffoonery, but the Wizard is NOT a homeless guy. he lives in a Section 8 apartment in IV & receives SSDI for anger management issues. He’s also a low level dealer for the bums in the park. Every month or so there’s a maroon SUV that rolls up behind his pad, the Rabbit comes out of the Wizard’s apartment, a little exchange is made w/ a handshake, the SUV leaves, the Rabbit returns & the party goes on. You’re right though, there is NO CONSPIRACY, never said there was (who the hell… Read more »
Omg who ever you are. You have no knowledge of the people you’re talking about…
These so.called bums haha half of.them are wealthy and just live like that for what ever reason.
Hell I know 1 or 2 that would jump anyone trying to hurt some girl or guy. Infact there once was a network of homeless who watched out for the students. Course you would know nothing about that..
Lol hell some of them are CIA plants and aww fuck it.. You’re to closed minded to.ever see the truth
These properties are owned by UCSB.
I tried to bring him down every way possible including contacting ucsb about him living there doing this. They wouldn’t connect me with the right person to talk to or talk to them about it.
I even blasted him on his Yelp page. I still have the screen shot from when Yelp took it down. Check out my FB page. There’s a post of it, it was a year ago.
How do you know this ? I want to get in contact with somebody about renting out this space for a student run business.
What I want to know is why aren’t any other news agencies covering this? Too busy talking about the national anthem protests I guess. Yet you ask why everyone doesn’t know about this guy. Not a single other news agency has mentioned this as far as I can tell.
You’re absolutely right there’s no report on edhat.l Wonder why it’s so quiet.
Glenn, that is by far THE most interesting question. Why haven’t ANY of the local “new” sources even looked @ this?
too busy talking about the Thomas fire still
Interesting Mr.Fisher. I gather that you also live in IV. Hmm you are either a member of IVs Cabal or just a hater
Many people that I got involved in this suspected him, including Father John, a retired police officer in Isla Vista and first responder. The man who tipped me off, Duane Erdman, is the head weapons instructor of the Santa Barbara Probation Dept. You may not want to hear it, but you are dead wrong if you are siding with Patrick.
Bwhahaha Father John???? Now its certain you have to be a member of the Cabal. We will unseat you one day and show you for the snake slime that you are sir.
PS Father John is a retired Sheriffs Deputy dumb fuck
I have made the screen shot of the yelp review about Patrick a cover photo on my fb page so anyone can see it, sorry I forgot I keep my fb posts to my friends.
I am one of those girls.i have known patrick for 10 yrs and i to fell prey to him..i just couldnt come forward until now
I am one of those girls who fell prey to him.he was my photographer for a while ,then i helped him run his biz,then one night he got violent.used drugs etc.i got away but havnt spoken tohim since
I knew it. As soon as I found out I knew what that photography gig was about.
I can imagine how horrible it must have been. I tried EVERYTHING to stop him. NOBODY would listen. The IV Foot Patrol wouldn’t even take an official statement after I told them everything I knew, which took at least twenty minutes of non stop talking.
Lol put down the pipe next time. You and that lying hoe should be be afraid of the karma
Do you have the support you need? The link to the detective on the case? People are here for anyone who can come forward to help.put this creep away. Thank you💚💪
Props for gutsy.
Wow!!!! This Bitch is straight up lying! Let me guess you and Scary Kari are members of the cabal??
I know for a fact you are lying you sick twisted bitch..just cause you fucked him so he would get you high bwhahaha bitch! You at anytime could just have stayed out of it, but no you would rather gain some type of sympathy no matter the cost. If I am wrong Bwhahaha then ill be struck by lightning. Get some help bitch.
i heard from different people too many times that patrick was a sexual predator. i sort of believed the rumors but they were just rumors. now that this story is out and he’s in custody, i totally believe that he did these awful things. poor girls.
He’s my boss. I was with him that night tf. He wanted me to walk with him because he was “hungry and he felt lonely” but it was too cold so I gave him a ride to dejavu
Dont buy into the lies god damn it pisses me off
Why is there almost a media blackout onthis story except for here and FB?
Newspaper must be able to print cuz otherwise government could whisk people away and nobody would know where they were, what they were accused of or even if the government was holding them or not. This way, an innocent person who would not be capable of such a crime people could rally to theeir defesne if they were obviously being set up for being a dissident or whatever. It is better this way and those who are exonerated that is news too and they can always sue for false arrest, malicious prosecution or prosecutorial misconduct and THAT would be news… Read more »
UCSB acquisition: A building at 910 Embarcadero del Norte, home to Dublin’s Sports Grill, a Thai restaurant, tattoo parlor and hair salon, is in escrow for sale to the university. The property, last assessed at $1.4 million, is owned by Jason Yardi, the son of Yardi Systems founder Anant Yardi.
Trust me he has what’s been coming to him for a long time ago. This time it seems like they have some solid evidence. Hope I never see him out here again. All UCSB STUDENTS need to share this and make everyone aware please.
Here’s fuel to the fire. Does ANYONE here remember when Patrick ran that martial arts studio on the southwest corner of Pardall & Embarcadero del Mar (used to be La Jicora, then became Burger King, then the dojo)?
Well, seems like he wanted some young ladies to “model” for the dojo & when they got there to do the modeling job in question, he told them it was for a nude photo shoot. Bait & switch w/ a touch of predatory tendencies.
Fuck day nigga
no u
There is no media blackout. This isn’t newsworthy information for KEYT, Newspress, etc while college is not in session. The people most effected by the news are not in town hence they won’t waste the space. IV doesn’t contribute money to these media organizations which is why it is so important to ensure The Daily Nexus have high standards and quality staff. Sorry but that is the way the industry works.
Nope, I just made my statement to the UCSB PD, they haven’t released any more info than they have to so far. I’m giving them until the second of January and then I will spearhead a public outreach myself, and I told them this.
Looks like they released everything they could.
They have only released the bare minimum that they are required to by law.
I an sorry but what more are you looking for and why do you think you’re entitled to it? They released the minimum as ypu said and the guy is in jail. There is no need to release more…
Why do you keep making this about you and what a valiant effort you have made?
Get over yourself
Real living is living for others.
-Bruce Lee
You arent living for others it is all about you and everything You have done.
Any ideas of how we can do this quickly and efficiently?
Yikes!
I just want my KFC delivered.
you want a 5 piece?
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@Anonymous: want mashed potatoes on the side?
The detective working the case is Ryan Hashimoto with the UCSB PD. This is who anyone with information regarding the case should contact.
Seems like most of his actions occurred in SB County Jurisdiction, not on campus under UCSB jurisdiction. Kelly Hoover, from the Sheriff’s department, is the spokesperson, which is County, not UCSB. Why is UCSB leading the case?
I’m not defending anybody or pointing any fingers, just trying to understand.
UCSB police officers are sworn-in under the California penal code. They have statewide jurisdiction.
Yes, I knew that. Doesn’t explain why UCSB is leading this case, however, which occurred under County jurisdiction. UCSB does own the building, but since UCSB is not using it for activities that fall under the UCSB mission (yet), I would have concluded the County would be the lead in this case.
The building and land belong to the University of California, not the county.
That only matters if the building and land were being used for activities that fall under the UCSB mission. If UC owns it but you are leasing the space to run a bar or a tattoo parlor… then the County, not UC, is responsible for law enforcement. If UC uses it for teaching, research, student or staff/faculty housing, then UC is responsible for law enforcement. Unless, of course, the County wants to play hardball.
BECAUSE PAT DIDN’T WANT TO SELL…..DUHHHH
UCSB acquisition: A building at 910 Embarcadero del Norte, home to Dublin’s Sports Grill, a Thai restaurant, tattoo parlor and hair salon, is in escrow for sale to the university. The property, last assessed at $1.4 million.
So i should come forwarx to the police all this time later
Report him.
She’s lying and of course there is no case. This is a friend of Nathan’s and now I’m upset. This ends now.
What are you talking about
OMG some of you fucks need to not just get a life but reevaluate themselves as humans.
Pat didn’t do shit. If you knew him then you would no this. Fuck anyone who says anything about living in IV. Just cause your silver spoon feed fucks have such a limited view of life.
I worked with him and I know he was capable of doing this…not saying he did. But it is very possible
Honestly props to the supposed victim because unlike some women she reported this immediately. And in defense of the 5th amendment, I would like to know this sort of information because until he is proven guilty or not we have the knowledge to stray away from this guys business at this moment.
The bitch is lying.
This is libelous. What is your name? This screen shot has been saved. Deleting the comment will not be sufficient this time. You will need to publish a full retraction with your name.
Any news on this guy???
I worked for him for a week before I quit. He tried to pay me less than minimum wage and constantly asked for naked pictures of my girlfriend. Fuck him.