Santa Maria Police arrested a juvenile for possession of a "ghost gun" near 200 W. Williams Street during a search.

On 03/21/2026 at 1146 PM, The Gang Suppression Team was conducting proactive patrol in the area of 1000 N. Railroad at ...

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 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 ...

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., 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, 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 ...

A documented Santa Maria gang member who gunned down his wife outside a local business two years ago pleaded guilty to first-degree murder today.

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 ...