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 ...

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, CA – Gang pretrials were the order of the day ... The prosecutor suggested that this attack involved about six Westside gang members attacking a rival Eastside member. Detective Beltran ...

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.

WEBVTT DAN GREEN IS OFF THIS WEEK. WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH A FEDERAL GRAND JURY INDICTING 12 SANTA CRUZ RESIDENTS SUSPECTED OF BEING MS-13 GANG MEMBERS, THE 12 MEN FACE A NUMBER OF RACKETEERING ...

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 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 ...

Murder and gang charges have been filed against a suspect ... which occurred in 2010, according to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office. The victim, Isidro Madera, who was a ...

Two adults and three juveniles were arrested Thursday afternoon on Las Positas Road in Santa Barbara following what police say was a gang-related altercation on the city’s Westside. (John ...

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 ...

Santa Barbara Police Chief Cam Sanchez said Tuesday ... signs in photographs and was arrested for gang-related crimes. Westside gang members identified in the complaint have all been contacted ...