SB Sheriff: Goleta double homicide was drug deal gone wrong
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - After law enforcement were seen in two Santa Barbara neighborhoods Thursday morning, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff s Office announced that arrests have finally been made in the Jan. 7 double homicide near Goleta, now deemed a drug deal gone wrong.
During a press conference, Sheriff Bill Brown said that four people were arrested as a result of their investigation.
Two of those arrests were made in connection to the murders and two were made as a result of search warrants.
Sheriff Brown said that bystanders initially reported the shooting near the 600 block of Burtis Street. There, deputies found two men each suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. One man was pronounced dead at the scene while the other was taken to the hospital and sadly died weeks later on Jan. 28.
ALBANY, N.Y. â Joshua Vega, 28, of Troy, was sentenced Thursday to 51 months in prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon. Â
Vega, who has a 2014 felony conviction for criminal sale of a controlled substance (heroin), previously admitted that on April 14, 2018, he possessed a loaded firearm located in his apartment in Troy.Â
- Advertisement -
Senior United States District Judge Norman A. Mordue also sentenced Vega to a three-year term of supervised release, to begin following his term of imprisonment.Â
This case was investigated by the FBI Capital District Safe Streets Gang Task Force and the Troy Police Department, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alicia Giglio Suarez.