Santa Barbara County – Only achieving the status of fully incorporated cityhood in recent years, the City of Goleta has already attracted its fair share of gang activity and serious street crime. That reality was brought home in late November when the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department asked for help from any member of the public who might have had information regarding a stabbing that took place in the middle of the downtown area in the early evening of November 21st.
At that time, according to SBSD Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover, a young man was assaulted by three individuals who left him on the sidewalk suffering a stab wound that required his immediate transport to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. “Sheriff’s deputies searched the area following the stabbing but were not able to locate the suspects,” Hoover reported at that time.
But the ensuing investigative efforts of SBSD Detectives proved fruitful just a month later and produced search and arrest warrants upon individuals living in close proximity to the crime scene itself. Early on the morning of December 18th, deputies served those warrants upon Mario Flores, 19, and Luis Gonzales-Guerrero, 21. The third suspect in the case, Bryan Ulloa, 20, was easy to find; he was “already in custody at the Santa Barbara County Jail on an unrelated case.”
All three were booked into Santa Barbara County Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting great bodily injury during a felony, and committing a felony in furtherance of a criminal street gang.
Photos: Courtesy Santa Barbara County Jail Booking
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