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Santa Barbara Police arrested a man under the influence of drugs for stabbing a woman at Ortega Park early Tuesday morning.
At 4:43 a.m., officers responded to a call of a bloody female down on the ground near the intersection of Quarantina and Ortega Streets.
A woman was found with stab wounds and was transported to the hospital. She is expected to survive.
Detectives investigated the assault with a deadly weapon and determined this was not a random attack but rather the involved parties were known to one another. Detectives served a search warrant at the crime scene and located additional evidence, according to Public Information Officer Anthony Wagner.
After lengthy follow-up interviews at the police department and hospital, suspect Emelio Hernandez, age 43, was booked for 245 PC (assault with a deadly weapon), 11550(a) H&S (under the influence of meth), 11378 H&S (possession for sales of meth), and 529 PC (false government documents).
Overnight stabbing of a Female victim in Ortega Park. I caught the tail end of the investigation, Police are interviewing witnesses for a Code 245pc: Assault with a deadly weapon. There are barricades up and it sounds like limited access to the park.
Is this the same Emelio Hernandez who was a standout soccer player from SBHS who was offered several scholarships to major universities (including UCSB and Westmont)? If so, he was a sweet kid who must have taken a wrong turn somewhere.
Hey trolls and readers, wtf have we come to when we call human beings “transients”? Subatomic particles are “transient” they degrade in a split second.
Everyone dies at some point so guess we’re all “transients”.
Or, to put it nicely, “all the worlds is a stage…” etcetera.
Dude you’ve defiantly taken one too many hits of acid in your day.
How come they are only called ‘ transients ‘ when they are involved in a serous crime. Otherwise they are called ‘homeless’.
I don’t understand the 6 down votes on that comment. Everyone was a sweet kid at some point in their early lives. Homeless people are down on their luck for many reasons, all of them sad. Lots of people take wrong turns, including those in power, just LOOK at today’s GOP! It’s rife with criminals. The only difference is they have money and (most of them) don’t have substance abuse problems.