Edhat Staff
Update by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
2:30 p.m., August 30, 2023
Suspect Arrested for Assault With a Deadly Weapon After Standoff
Deputies have safely arrested a suspect for an assault with a deadly weapon after an hours-long standoff. At approximately 7:13 a.m., deputies were dispatched to the area of Encina Meadows for a stabbing that had just occurred. When deputies arrived, they found an adult male victim near a bus stop with severe lacerations. The victim was transported to an area hospital for care with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
Deputies quickly located the suspect inside a residence at Encina Royale and identified her as 31-year-old Kebrina Alvarez. Deputies learned that the suspect and the victim are known to each other, and this was not a random attack. While deputies attempted to have the suspect exit the residence, additional resources responded to the scene including the Special Enforcement Team, Crisis Negotiation Team, and K9 Units. Deputies authored a warrant for the suspect and entered the residence at approximately 10:45 a.m., where the suspect was taken into custody without further incident. The suspect was transported to an area hospital for medical clearance and will be booked at the jail for assault with a deadly weapon later today.
Photo by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
Photo by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
Update by the edhat staff
10:45 a.m., August 30, 2023
At 10:45 a.m. the Sheriff’s Office reported the suspect had been safely taken into custody. The lockdown of the neighborhood has been lifted.
An edhat reader on the scene spoke with a Sheriff’s Deputy who confimed a stabbing suspect was apprehended, although it was unconfirmed if the issue was a domestic disturbance or not.
The Sheriff’s Public Information Officer Raquel Zick stated the suspect, 31-year-old Kebrina Alvarez, was taken into custody without incident and will received medical attention before being booked for assualt with a deadly weapon.
“Victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries,” said Zick. “Roadways have been opened- thank you for your cooperation.”
Photos by an edhat reader
Update by the edhat staff
9:00 a.m., August 30, 2023
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has locked down the area between Fairview Ave and Encina Road in Goleta due to an alleged stabbing incident.
Edhat readers submitted reports regarding a large police response to Encina Road. Early scanner traffic stated a female suspect used a kitchen knife to stab a victim in an apartment complex, although this has yet to be confirmed by the Sheriff’s Office.
One person has been taken to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital with injuries.
At 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office released the below statement:
“Avoid the area- active scene: Fairview and Encina, Goleta. Serious assault investigation, suspect not yet in custody. Updates here as they become available.”
Active Shooter in Goleta?
By an edhat reader
Any other reports about a swat team out by Fairview and Encina looking for an active shooter this morning? I can’t leave work, but I heard swat is out in the plaza nearby Fairview.
31 yr olds live at Senior’s Community?
Encina Meadows is an all age apartment complex owned by The Towbes Group. Encina Royale fka New Horizons, is the senior community across Encina Lane from Encina Meadows.
Given the following: ” Kebrina is a unique baby name in United States during its short run, it been to the top 3000 names. In 1993, it ranked 2487th when 50 girls were named Kebrina.”
I’m guessing you (A-1693420767)are right
There were 30 girls named Kebrina in the USA during the year 1992 when Ms. Alvarez was born
OMG- ALL those resources for ONE LADY with a KNIFE…. What happened to Police work…?
Agreed, insane! It’s because she didn’t drive away so therefore they couldn’t lazily use all
The cameras they’re installing at EVERY INTERSECTION! No helicopter you say? It was probably getting ready
Let’s hope that the injured person is okay and that the stabber gets some help. There once was a time when you could go to “sleepy” Goleta and feel completely safe. I am in Goleta several times a week, sometimes a couple times in the same day. Goleta has made a lot of strides in the last few years toward equity for all classes of citizens, but it seems to be allowing/enabling a certain element to “run the show.” There’s one gentleman who sets up his home completely across the sidewalk in Old Town and apparently that’s okay these days. I really hope that the CoG does not let things slip so far off the rails that there is no recovering as is happening in the City of SB. One big test will be to see how the new housing development at the former Super 8 does. I hope it goes well, but if we look at what has happened in Santa Barbara where the less fortunate are accommodated, well…..not good (just drove on lower Milpas…yikes!). Although not a citizen of Goleta, I wish them the best with all of their recent growth, which also fosters “big city” problems.
Babycakes – don’t come to Goleta. Goleta is not in need of your judgement, misinformation, lack of class, or general Fox news parroting. I’m more concerned about people like you than people of other social classes being treated equitably.
BABY – can you point to where in the article this has anything to do with homeless?
why are you obsessed with Fox news? it isn’t in the article, babycakes didn’t talk about… how is this on-topic?
Whenever I read one of these lengthy comments from BC that start out well, I wonder how long it will take for it to turn sour, as they invariably do.
Large police staging and SWAT in the parking lot of Bank of America, on the corner of Encio/Calle Real
Geez Some commentors could do the homework before equating good government (representing everyone) with crime rates. Here’s Goleta crime rate: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/goleta/crime
Versus what? Here’s Santa Barbara https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/santa-barbara/crime
and Lompoc https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/santa-barbara/crime
RED CREEK – not sure what you’re getting at, but it shows the Channel Islands as more dangerous than Del Playa in IV. Also, #10 (the most dangerous) in Goleta is the airport land where there are no homes.
Not sure how accurate all that is.
Is this the same woman?
https://calexicochronicle.com/2022/01/14/missing-holtville-woman-located-in-santa-barbara/
Yes it is. She should go back to Calexico…..
Babycakes, if you do some research on crime stats and trends in Goleta, you might “feel” safer. Or, you might feel less safe. As it is, your feelings are just…feelings.
Remember this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goleta_postal_facility_shootings
Did you feel safer seventeen years ago than now?
Maybe it’s the media you are consuming that’s making you feel this way.
I’m guessing postal workers felt unsafe for a while after that event, and did not feel unsafe before the event. Those that were onsite during the event felt unsafe and were unsafe.
Human survival is based in part on feeling unsafe before the event is underway, because events like this are unpredictable- but sure I’ll wait until after I’m dead to feel unsafe if that would make you happy.
That said, no I’m not afraid and don’t walk around feeling afraid. I am wary of some people in some situations, but that is a normal human feeling
Alex – Baby will never do research. Just spouts crap she heard at church from Fox news Christians.
Seeing a homeless person terrifies him/her. Sillyness.
Value added comment VOR, thank you.
Value add comment GT, thank you.
Probably staying at Motel 6…
Coast, You are absolutely correct! In one photo you can see 21 LEOs. And there are the two armored personnel carriers, the 6 or 7 officers in full combat gear, a K-9 unit, fire department units, Sheriff’s command truck and a crisis negotiator team. What an over-response for one woman with a knife! And what a waste of tax payer $ when most of these could have been performing other needed law enforcement activities. Unbelievable!
8:55, gotta use the tools they have to justify having them. Big boys and their toys, dontcha know.
Yeah, it’s almost as if all these militarized weapons, tools and tactics are unnecessary in a small town with small crime such as this…… Almost like we should divert some of the funds away from all these things to spend on I don’t know… mental health crisis response teams or something?
LOL (literally, I did laugh out loud) it’s honestly absolutely hilarious reading people like COAST complaining about the use of tax payer funds for overkill like this and then also hearing him/her scream about the liberals wanting cops to not use tax payer funds for overkill like this……
MUST ban kitchen knives…….
SZQ – No, their sole design and purpose is not to kill humans. Nice try though.
Yeah, right, because you can kill ten or twenty people with a kitchen knife.
It really does not matter where this occurred, whether it be Goleta, Capinteria, Santa Maria, or Lompoc. What does matter is that we have adequate LE in place when these things occur. I had a family member who once worked at Atascadero State Hospital, and he said that many of the inmates there did not have lengthy “rap” sheets whatsoever. He said that the event that led to them being there were quite often a one-off event….or as it was explained to me, the person “lost it” for 10/15/30 seconds and did the most horrific things. I hope that the State of California adopts the proposed (maybe it has already passed?) legislation that allows the state to care for those who cannot/will not/unable to take care of themselves rather than rotting/dying on the streets/bushes/gutters.
Glad you have a family member with experience, along with you having gotten rid of your lawn so long ago. Congrats on it all.
I *knew* I should’ve included /s after my comment.
@7:58: Definitely correct on both counts, so thank you for your kind acknowledgement. We can all help by doing our part to help others and to create a more sustainable planet. Even the smallest effort helps!