A Santa Barbara County Superior Court jury found a Santa Maria man guilty of first-degree murder this week for killing a rival gang member from Guadalupe in 2021 after shooting him 15 times in the ...

A juvenile has been charged with first-degree murder in a fatal shooting tied to gang activity on the Fourth of July in Santa Maria. At 11:22 p.m. July 4, Santa Maria police officers were dispatched ...

Santa Maria resident Alfredo Alaniz Jr., 25, has been convicted by a jury of first-degree murder in the 2021 gang related shooting of a 19-year-old Guadalupe man. Information in this staff report was ...

Looking at Santa Barbara County’s probation routine for formerly incarcerated youth with a fresh pair of eyes, Fighting Back ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – Alfredo Junior Alaniz was convicted of murder in the first-degree for the benefit of a criminal street gang in connection with the death of 19-year-old Mario Merino ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Officers from the Santa Maria Police Department Gang Suppression Team say they conducted a traffic stop near BenWiley and El Camino after observing a driver using a cell phone ...

Santa Maria Police say city gangs are too loosely associated to be affected by a gang injunction, such as the one recently adopted in Lompoc and more than 20 other California cities.

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 Santa Maria man has been convicted of first-degree murder in a deadly 2021 shooting. A jury found 25-year-old Alfredo Alaniz guilty of killing 19-year-old Mario Merino Gonzalez, and confirmed ...