A California gang member was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the shooting death of a man in Santa Maria. Alfredo Junior Alaniz, 25, of Santa Maria, was sentenced for the murder of Mario Merino ...

A Santa Maria man has been sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for the 2021 murder of a 19-year-old.

Referring to the viciousness and callousness of the crime, a Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge handed down a 50-years-to-life state prison ...

Santa Maria Police conducted patrol in the area of Miller and Chapel Streets when they observed a vehicle fail to stop at a posted stop sign.

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 ...

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 ...

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.