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 state prison inmate has returned to Santa Barbara County to face new charges in a 2021 homicide in Santa Maria. Jaime Cid, 53, has been charged in Santa Barbara County Superior Court with murder and ...

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 ...

The trial for a 25-year-old Santa Maria man accused of the alleged gang-related shooting death of a rival in 2021 is underway, as prosecutors and defense attorneys sift through potential jurors.

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 ...