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Santa Maria police seize guns from alleged gang members

March 24, 2026

By JOSH FRIEDMAN

Santa Maria police officers made six arrests and seized two guns while countering gang activity over the weekend.

On Saturday, Gang Suppression Team officers contacted three known juveniles in Evans Park located at 200 W. Williams Street. Officers conducted a lawful detention and pat-down, which led to the recovery of an unlawfully manufactured ghost gun, according to the Santa Maria Police Department.

Police took one suspect into custody. Authorities booked the suspect at Juvenile Hall. 

Later that evening, officers patrolled Atkinson Park located at 1000 N. Railroad Avenue, where they contacted known gang members. Police seized a shotgun from a vehicle and took five suspects into custody.

Authorities booked the five suspects in Juvenile Hall and Santa Barbara County Jail.

 


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These brown victims, need these guns. To protect themselves from the racist whites that forced them into slavery. Rise up my brown brothers . This is your time . SLO Liberal need a powerful Master & are begging you to take what is yours .


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Nombres??? Hmmmm???

…..oh wait they’re minors. I wonder……


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Tactical LBE (load-bearing equipment) in the vehicle — isn’t this a thing with cartels and their proxies nowadays?


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Army’s of ICE rolls through Santa Maria and Lompoc rounding up farm workers. At the same time there is articles like this at least 5 times a week. Thugs ICE should be targeting.

Take off your MAGA hat and be honest. Would you rather live in a neighborhood of farm workers or gangsters?

There are thousands of pictures of 4-5 ICE agents standing around in airports talking. If you are in line at TSA for 3 hours would you rather see 5 TSA workers working solo and processing travelers or 5 guys standing around? 5 guys standing around getting paid and the TSA workers are not.

Stay on topic. And no quotes from lying websites. I’ll bet you wont.

Make ICE Great Again.


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Ive lived in SM my whole life. ive never been harassed by gang members…and stop with the BS about ICE arresting farm workers. the people they took into custody were mostly felons who were here illegally. would you want these people on your streets? sure, some people they arrested were hard working farm workers who were living with these criminals. they were still breaking the law by being here illegally. you cant pick and choose the laws that fit your twisted liberal thinking. its kind of funny how most people on this site hate on SM and at the same time bitch when criminals get arrested and deported.


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Former Mayor Hobbs would have something to say about good vs. bad citizens.


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They used to just stab each other. Now they use bullets. What’s next?


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Clearly this indicates we need even more gun laws because more laws will keep the guns out of the hands of ??? criminals???? ….. law abiding citizens.


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There are plenty of gun laws.

$149 billion goes to ICE.

$3 billion to DEA.

ICE is costing you and I more money than ALL law agencies COMBINED. ALL. City, county, state, federal, FBI, DEA, border patrol, sheriffs, highway patrol. coast guard, secret service. COMBINED.

So far it has cost us $800,000 per person combined.

Wake up. There is a greater chance you will be harmed by a gangster with a gun instead of a farm worker with a shovel.


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Can I choose to be harmed by neither? or is that not an option for you?


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ICE received $75 billion for 2026. Most of that will be used for detention centers. Why is the ICE budget so high this year? Because ICE opened numerous detention centers, due to the large number of arrests of known felons, criminals, gang members, drug kings, sex traffickers, and those with outstanding warrants for immigration violations.


Also, ICE is under the DHS. DHS already had it’s funding secured before democrats, and ONLY democrats, shut down the government and refuse to pay TSA…again.


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According to Google and several reputable websites, including the libertarian Cato Institute, “As of February 2026, approximately 73.6% of individuals in ICE detention have no criminal convictions, according to data from TRAC Immigration. This means a minority of detainees—roughly 26-27%—have criminal records, with many of those offenses being minor, such as traffic violations. Consequently, only a small fraction of detainees are convicted of serious crimes.”


So, stop the with the false narrative. Every research study I’ve seen shows that immigrants have far lower crime rates than native born Americans. ICE is locking up law abiding individuals simply because they entered the country without documentation. I agree these people need to be sorted out, but the way it’s being done right now is expensive and counter productive. What we need is a comprehensive immigration reform law passed by Congress.


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