4 people arrested during service of search warrants tied to Goleta homicide case
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and last updated 2021-02-05 00:33:53-05
Four people were arrested on Thursday in Santa Barbara after sheriff s officials say they served multiple search warrants across the city in connection with a double murder in Goleta last month.
On January 7, authorities responded to a shooting on Burtis St. and found two young men with gunshot wounds seated in a vehicle.
Enzo Marino Rastelli, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene. Jasper Pieter van der Meulen, 19, was hospitalized and died three weeks later.
At a Thursday afternoon press conference, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said the two men were college students who were selling marijuana and apparently became the victims of a robbery ripoff. He said investigators recovered a 1/2-pound of marijuana at the scene and that there was no indication the two victims were armed when they were shot.
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