Marco and Miguel Pacheo
Santa Barbara County – The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department’s Compliance Response Team, a unit funded by the Community Corrections Partnership, various county law enforcement agencies and jurisdictions, and the state judiciary, is comprised of specially trained SBSD Deputies, Probation Officers, and local area police personnel.
On April 25th, the Compliance Response Team was searching the Santa Maria area for individuals who, according to SBSD Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover, “had warrants for their arrests or who had absconded from probation.”
That effort led deputies to the attic of a Santa Maria home where Marco Pacheco, 26, was found hiding, whereupon he was taken into custody for violating the terms of his parole and for being a felon in possession of ammunition.
Located elsewhere in the same residence was his twin brother, Miguel Pacheco, who was taken into custody and arrested on two outstanding probation violation warrants.
And as these things often go, the subsequent search of the residence turned up several items of notable interest, including “an inert military training grenade, three grams of methamphetamine, a modified AR-15 replica airsoft rifle modified to appear authentic, several knives, and two airsoft handguns.”
The totality of that evidence, as well as the pair’s outstanding warrants, earned them a free ride to Santa Barbara County Jail where they were booked on charges of possession of methamphetamine, being a gang member in possession of a replica grenade, and altering an imitation firearm to appear as real.
Photos: Courtesy Santa Barbara County Jail Booking
