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 ...

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 ...

Aloysius Winthrop James sits in a Santa Maria courtroom, where he is on trial accused of killing Ofelia Sandoval, 30, in September 1988. He was arrested in Georgia in 2024, and the jury trial is ...

Aloysius Winthrop James, 58, of Gainesville, Georgia — pictured here in a Santa Maria courtroom — was arrested in 2024 in connection with the 1988 killing of a 30-year-old woman. Credit: Janene Scully ...

An 83-year-old man was sentenced to one year of probation after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter in a 2024 crash that killed a 39-year-old woman in Santa Maria, the Santa Barbara County ...

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 ...

Alfredo Junior Alaniz, 25, of Santa Maria, has been sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for the murder of Mario Merino Gonzalez on May 16, 2021, according to the Santa Barbara County ...

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., February 27, 2026 — Santa Barbara County District Attorney John T. Savrnoch announced today a jury returned a verdict of guilty against defendant Aloysius James of first-degree ...

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 ...