Santa Barbara police have made three arrests stemming from an attack that happened more than two years ago, and at least one of the suspects is no stranger to trouble..
Two 17-year-olds and a 19-year-old were arrested on charges connected to a September 2007 stabbing on the Westside. The arrests followed a two-year investigation, using information developed in the aftermath of last year’s Operation Gator Roll, a gang roundup by regional law enforcement.
The victim, a Westside resident who was 17 at the time, was walking home from playing basketball when a car pulled up and several people jumped out, according to police. They stabbed him more than 30 times in the neck and torso, then fled the area. The victim was able to stagger to his residence a block away before collapsing outside. The victim survived; his attackers appeared to have gotten clean away.
The vicious attack came in the midst of several others, and not long after two deaths-by-stabbing in Santa Barbara involving alleged gang members. Detectives, according to Lt. Paul McCaffrey, were able to use avenues opened during Operation Gator Roll investigations to garner credible information about the attack.
One of the 17-year-olds was already in custody on a murder charge for a July 2007 attack that killed Lorenzo Carachure. He is also facing charges for a recent assault in Santa Barbara Juvenile Hall and for jumping-in a gang member. His next court hearing in the Carachure case is November 23. The other two are also now in custody — the younger one in Juvenile Hall and the 19-year-old in County Jail. They face charges of attempted murder.
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A tragic loss of humanity. Our own Al-Qaeda right here in River City. These locals have the same mentality of the international terrorists, macho insanity, sexist bigotry, and self righteousness. Terminal uniqueness, intentionally vague, and convolutionally correct.
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Bird (anonymous profile)
November 9, 2009 at 7:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Bird, you have no idea what that guy may or may not have done before they attacked him. Maybe instigated an incident and hurt one of their gang members. I'm certainly not justifying it, but for you to compare them to "international terrorists" (members of Al-CIA-Duh???) is pretty ridiculous. These gang members aren't tools of the global elite, they are a consequence of the US' imperialism against Mexico and South America. The US essentially forced Mexico to sign onto NAFTA, but one of the problems was that they had to change their Constitution so that the globalists could come in and claim the land that indigenous had been farming for centuries or longer. This caused their poverty rate to double, and a lot of them ended up moving here because we had jobs and a welfare system that we made available to them.
The day we wake up to the globalist banking scam and reclaim our country's sovereignty and initiate and honest, commodity backed currency will be the day we take a step in the right direction to reduce gang activity. Until then we are just running the same god damn rat maze over and over.
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loonpt (anonymous profile)
November 9, 2009 at 10:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
All these " Gang Bangers " are a bunch of squids!! Fake@ss kids thinking they are hard. When will the people of Santa Barbara stand up and take back their city?
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805RunningCrew (anonymous profile)
November 9, 2009 at 7:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wow loonpt that is, well, uh a hell of an explanation. The truth is that if some of those kids were given the chance and shown a different lifestyle to live would probably still choose to do what they are doing. I guess there are rotten apples in every bunch. The rest of them just want to be part of something, to be accepted, and if that was provided there would be a change in the ranks. As it is we let them raise themselves and this is what we see. Plus, you cannot exclude the fact that teenagers make foolish decisions all the time, I know I did.
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AZ2SB (anonymous profile)
November 14, 2009 at 10:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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