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Santa Maria officers arrest three teens armed with firearms

March 2, 2026

By KAREN VELIE

Santa Maria police officers arrested three teens armed with firearms on Saturday evening.

Shortly after 10 p.m., officers with the gang suppression team were patrolling in the area of Miller Street and Chapel Street when they observed a vehicle run a stop sign. An officer then stopped the vehicle.

While talking with the 19-year-old driver, the officer discovered the teen was armed with a loaded firearm.

Officers also detained two additional teens who were riding in the vehicle – a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old. During a search of  the vehicle, officers found firearms where the two passengers had been seated.

Officers arrested all three teens on weapons charges.

 


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One word, Salinas


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What a wonderful town


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No doubt AFDC get-paid-to-breed kids. Check out the combination of AFDC, Section 8, EBT, Medi-Cal (including dental and vision) and it’s a pretty generous package. Then the kids go to prison at $133,000/yr each. BTW, EBT is supposed to be for food, but if we don’t feed the kids 3x/day at school, plus summer programs, they will starve. I was behind a Spanish-speaking woman at Costco with a shopping cart full of nothing but cartons containing over 1,000 eggs headed for resale at some restaurant.


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I guess it would kill the anti-Santa Maria narrative to point out that both the violent crime rates and property crime rates are higher in San Luis Obispo. According to Wikipedia, SLO has a violent crime rate of 5.14 per 1,000 and a property crime rate of 30.84 per 1,000. Santa Maria’s violent crime rate is 4.27 per 1,000 and 29.6 per 1,000 for property crime. These seem pretty close, yet SM gets the bad name.


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The anti-Santa Maria narrative is valid. The gangsters commute to SLO to break into cars, case homes for burglary, and crash Cal Poly parties. Thursday night used to be cruise night in SLO. It had to be shut down because of Santa Maria high school gangsters showing up. My car was broken into in SLO, the cards were used in Santa Maria including sketchy cash withdrawals at a Santa Maria convenience store. I don’t know where you get your data, but compare the reports of murders, stabbings, robberies and illegal weapons possession in SLO and Santa Maria, SLO rare, Santa Maria all the time.


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Staba Maria…North Staba Ana….too bad…


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Another day in Stabba Maria for LEO’s.


I thank the LEO’s for their valiant and exhausting efforts.


Btw, not enough article space for the 4 names used by each of those spawn of ILLEGALS?


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Democrats hate guns until it’s in the hand of a  sociopath. This “19-year-old ,at risk child “. Will suffer minimal Consequences in Democrat controlled California. I bet in less than two years. This” victim of our racist legal system ” will have his voting rights restored .


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