A member of Santa Barbara’s Westside gang was sentenced last Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison for the fatal knifing of an Eastside rival in 2019. Igor Rai Ortiz, 22, pleaded guilty to the ...

A Santa Barbara County Superior Court jury convicted ... Co-defendants and fellow Westside gang members Luis Jaimes and Juan Carlos Gomez pleaded to robbery and active participation in a criminal ...

Gang crime in the City of Santa Barbara is up, with a noticeable spike in gang-fueled ... This Monday, four alleged members of the Westside gang pleaded not guilty to the fatal June 1 stabbing of ...

Santa Barbara police released more details Monday about a stabbing that occurred over the weekend on the city’s Westside that they say is gang-related and left an 18-year-old man in critical ...

The suspect was 14 years old. For some, that was a flash point — the start to restricting Santa Barbara’s two gangs, Eastside and Westside. “You’re so used to Santa Barbara being the beaut ...

John Palminteri Two stabbing victims were hospitalized in a violent attack on the Santa Barbara Westside Friday afternoon ... The side of a building nearby had fresh gang tagging.

Santa Barbara County Jail The charges are connected ... According to the criminal complaint, the defendants are members of the Westside criminal street gang, and drove into rival Eastside gang ...

Santa Barbara County District Attorney John Savrnoch ... the killing and committing the murder for the benefit of the Westside gang. Prosecutors said Ortiz and an accomplice attacked Torres ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A total of 28 Santa Barbara Eastside gang members were indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles last week, including 19 people under the RICO (Racketeer Influenced ...

SANTA CRUZ — Police are investigating last week’s shooting as collateral damage in a gang-related shootout outside a Westside bar and restaurant. The Santa Cruz Police Department was called ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KABC) -- Four Santa Barbara-area suspects with gang ties were arrested Wednesday for conspiracy to commit extortion for the benefit of a criminal street gang following a 16 ...