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The Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office determined that a Santa Maria police officer was justified in his use of deadly force in a shooting of an armed man last
Santa Maria police say man was armed, and was fatally wounded as he tried to break into occupied apartment.
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. 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 accus...