Anonymous
Source: Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
On January 10, 2019, members of the Sheriff’s Special Investigations Bureau (SIB) conducted a probation search in the 3500 Block of State Street at a Motel. Detectives found and seized more than one quarter pound of suspected methamphetamine, approximately nine grams of suspected heroin, more than $7,000 in cash, and other items of drug indicia consistent with drug trafficking. Detectives also recovered a stolen vehicle during the investigation.
Detectives arrested 26-year-old Michael Diaz of Santa Barbara and 39-year-old Gabriel Camacho of Oxnard for possessing methamphetamine for the purpose of sales and possessing heroin for the purpose of sales.
Diaz was also linked to vehicle thefts from the City of Santa Barbara and was arrested on two outstanding felony warrants as well as possession of a stolen vehicle. Diaz was booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail and is being held without bail. Camacho was booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail on $30,000 bail.
During the probation search, four other individuals were contacted and found to be in possession of narcotics paraphernalia and a small amount of heroin. They were released from the scene with citations.
Those individuals are identified as 26-year-old Sara Cantu of Santa Barbara, 24-year-old Veronica Ramirez of Santa Barbara, 24-year-old Celina Morales of Santa Barbara and 28-year-old Juan Cosio of Ventura
These characters have all been in prison- California Prisons- The system in this State is BROKEN.
Exactly!! We can change our destinies over and over again in this life if we want to. Hard work is rewarded, maybe more so in areas that are less expensive. Most of what happens in our lives is decision based.
They were born in America – there is no greater privilege granted to anyone. They chose to trash that inborn advantage – free public schools, churches on every corner, non-profit after school activities, even the care and training offered by the military. You have to work hard to screw things up for yourself in this country.
The cards were stacked against these guys from the day they were born. They were given no opportunities for anything. They cannot find high-paying jobs because the education they were provided was sub-standard. And people wonder why they turn to a life of crime.
That is a bunch of bull. They have the same opportunities that white kids do in the public school system and everything that we do is based on making an active decision. We were poor and my kids didn’t have a lot of money but my daughter chose to work hard in school and she got herself a full-ride scholarship to an Ivy League College. It was a choice made on her part over and over again. These guys are making this Choice, the world is full of choice! They are not victims, they put themselves where they are. Maybe there’s a chance that this will turn them around and that down the road they’ll be productive members of society. We can only hope!
Mom didn’t finish high school: Her siblings needed a mom and hers/theirs died at 35. After living in boarding houses wherever his Dad found work, he finished h.s. by dint of working 2 jobs while helping support the family; their mom died at 34. During my childhood, we lived in multiple rentals until Dad saved enough for a down-payment on a fixer with the help of his Dad’s pension from the foundry which ruined his lungs. He died at 54. Pop and Dad dug a septic field and added inside water/plumbing in less than a year. We wore hand-me-downs, not gold jewelry. We were living over a Mom and Pop grocery open from 8 to 10–6 days a week when they sent me to college. I worked every year of it and contributed. My sisters did the same. That poor-me-poverty excuse for criminality or failure is a cop-out. Choose to live somewhere less expensive, work your a** off and live a respectable life and you won’t have low self-esteem or be predatory.
Great job law enforcement! I’m glad two more scummy toxic substance peddlers were caught. It looks like four young people in their 20s were cited and released. It’s tragic they are already ensnared by drugs, and hopefully they’ll get out of that lifestyle before it’s deadly. Luvaduck: what a great story of multigenerational perseverance! Only if many more would follow in your footsteps.
It’s no mystery that criminal behavior is often modeled by previous generations. Poor parenting, a lack of positive examples, and family members already immersed in gangs and drugs. It’s not rocket science.
Will good for you my mom committed federal fraud in my name to the tune of alot of money I don’t feel that sorry about myself I just think about killing people sometimes and eating them.
So sorry to hear this. You both are in my thoughts and prayers that she would be freed from the grip of drug addiction.
That guy on top needs glasses he probably could not see his school work that well…
My 20 year old daughter is currently homeless and doing drugs here in Santa Barbara. Every once in awhile she responds to my attempts to reach out to her and she tells me all the stupid things that she’s doing and that she’s interested in getting help and she make some phone calls and then she disappears and I don’t hear from her for another six months or so… But what she has told me is that most of the time the drug dealers set themselves up at local hotels, like Motel 6. You would think that these types of dealers would get caught faster with the obvious addicts in and out of their hotel rooms but they aren’t caught fast enough! We have such a bad drug problem here, it’s not new, we’ve had a drug culture in place my whole 50 years but it is a web, many meth dealers and users have the same small circle. Glad they busted 2, wonder if my daughter was one of the cited and released ones.