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Just two days earlier, Mario Angel Merino Gonzalez, 19, of Guadalupe was shot to death in another Santa Maria neighborhood.
Shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday, police officers, Santa Maria firefighters and an AMR ambulance were dispatched to the shooting scene near North Lincoln and West Mill streets, a block west of North Broadway, Flaa said.
They discovered Gonzalez, who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, in the middle of the street, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The initial investigation revealed that Gonzalez had been in a verbal altercation with a group of people when someone pulled a gun and shot him, police said.
Posted By Peter Johnson on Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 4:18 PM Santa Maria officials say the city’s topography makes it ripe for flooding under the right conditions and is encouraging residents to be ready for such a scenario in advance. click to enlarge FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE FLAT LANDSCAPE Santa Maria officials say the city’s flat topography makes it susceptible to flooding, especially under the heavy rain conditions the region is currently experiencing. As of Jan. 27, the National Weather Service was predicting heavy rains in Santa Maria through Thursday and issued a wind advisory in Santa Barbara County until Jan. 28 at 4 p.m. It predicted winds as strong as 30 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 45 mil
Two women and a man from Santa Maria pleaded not guilty last week to fraud-related charges in which theyâre accused of using a California home to collect more than $390,000 in state medical benefits over more than a decade while living in Nevada.Â
Seferino Hernandez and Eden Bautista, both 59, and Thelma Pedroche, 62, appeared via Zoom before Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Patricia Kelly on Dec. 7 and entered their pleas to the charges, including presenting a false Medi-Cal claim and criminal conspiracy.
Additionally, Bautista and Pedroche each received an enhancement accusing them of stealing more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded benefits.
Specifically, Hernandez, Bautista and Pedroche are accused of fraudulently collecting funds from January 2005 to December 2016 for the state s in-home support services program, which allows non-medical personal care for elderly and disabled individuals in their own homes, instead of long-term care facilities, according