On Thursday at approximately 6:36 p.m., personnel from the Santa Maria Police Gang Suppression Team arrested a 16-year-old on ...

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 Santa Maria man has been sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for the 2021 murder of a 19-year-old. A jury found 25-year-old Alfredo Junior Alaniz guilty of first-degree murder and ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) - The Santa Maria Police Department Gang Suppression Team conducted a traffic stop that led to a felony arrest for firearm possession. On Friday around 3:10 PM, officers ...

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 sentence for a Santa Maria man found guilty of ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif., March 5, 2026 — Santa Barbara County District Attorney John Savrnoch announced today that Alfredo Junior Alaniz, a 25-year-old resident of Santa Maria, was sentenced to fifty ...