Three men were arrested Saturday night in connection to a firearm robbery, and several other charges in Santa Maria. On ...
A Los Angeles federal judge last week rescheduled the trial date for a Santa Maria man accused of bombing the Santa Barbara ...
A Lompoc man was booked into county jail this morning for causing damage to multiple vehicles in Santa Maria. On Sunday, ...
A Vandenberg Village man was arrested, and booked into Santa Barbara County Jail for assault with a deadly weapon and felony ...
On a trip from California to Georgia in 2024, Julia Tatarian brought a photo of a woman she knew a lot about but had never met. It was a portrait of Ofelia Sandoval, who was found dead at age 30 in ...
Alfredo Junior Alaniz, 25, of Santa Maria, has been sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for the murder of Mario Merino Gonzalez on May 16, 2021, according ...
SANTA MARIA, Calif., December 12, 2025 – Santa Barbara County District Attorney John Savrnoch announced today that Alfredo Junior Alaniz, a 25-year-old resident of Santa Maria, was convicted by a jury ...
A Georgia man, Aloysius James, has been found guilty in the 1988 cold-case murder of Ofelia Sandoval, according to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office.