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Source: Santa Barbara County District Attorney
Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce E. Dudley announced today that charges have been filed against Victor Angel Hernandez, a 23-year-old resident of Santa Barbara, California. Mr. Hernandez is charged with three felony counts and two misdemeanor counts, including Arson of an Inhabited Structure, Attempted Arson and Reckless Burning, for various incidents in and around the Loma Alta Drive area. Mr. Hernandez is alleged to have started the Loma Fire, which burned over seven acres and damaged several structures.
Mr. Hernandez was arraigned in Department 8 today on the felony complaint, entered not guilty pleas to all charges, and denied all special allegations. The case is currently set for preliminary hearing in Santa Barbara Superior Court at 8:30 a.m. on June 2, 2021 in Department 6.
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Awwww, SACJON, are you upset your housless homies aren’t getting their way? Looks like it’s bu-bye to the encampments and eventually, whether you like it or not, this guy’s mug will make the rounds.
Sorry for the realism, as simple as it may be, but seems like you’re getting a little spun over not getting your way. Me? Just here, laughing and watching the problem parties squirm.
RYPERT – what are you rambling about? You really are a joke. Your comments make absolutely zero sense given the context. It’s exhausting. I’ve offered an explanation as to why they blurred his face and now you paint me as some homeless advocate. Do we even know if this guy was homeless? Nope.
Show his face!
More wasted money@Yacht Rocked..Another 12 year plan to end homelessness A bunch of B.S.
Never happen, your tax dollars are safe. But you are still paying for their emergency room visits and police interactions and camp cleanups if we keep the status quo, right? Nothing in life is free.
They probably will show a mug shot once he’s formally charged. I think it’s good they don’t show his face until they are sufficiently sure and he is charged. Even here, there’s too much of a vigilante mindset among some….
RYPERT – why do you need to see his face? He’s in jail. They already got him.
Those numbers are probably accurate if we use LA Mayor Garcetti’s program.
On LA city land (so the land was free) LA built 39 8X8 units, at a cost of approx $2100 per square foot
Those are 8 foot square boxes and architecturally need only one floor plan one engineering drawing, one plumbing, one electrical etc. One sewer hookup cost spread over 39 units, 1 water hook up spread over 39 units, one electrical hookup spread over 39 units etc
If it was up to me, I’d have had them built offsite and trucked in so they could be mass produced, but lets say they decided to build them using onsite union labor…. they are still double per square foot cost of a nice home in Montecito.
So of course they need $100M.
LA just spent over $5M to house 39 people. I don’t know how many homeless we have, but $100M spent like that only houses 780 people and after every vulture along the way dips its beak into that $100M I’ll bet only 1/2 is left to actually build.
SACJON, comes down to the old saying and that is “Know your enemy.”
RYPERT – ok, again, why do you need to see his face? He’s in jail now. Oh wait, is it because you assume he’s homeless (ie, your “enemy”)?
Oops, almost forgot! Fair play! If either you or I got popped for arson, you can bet your whatever that our mugs would be all over the local news media. With “houseless neighbors” that fairness isn’t the case at all, as they’re a protected species.
He3’s an arsonist, therefore ALL of OUR enemy. But if he is a “houseless neighbor” -which is starting to come out more and more as a posaitive- then that just strengthens the case. But truth be told, “houseless neighnbor or not- bad people are known to do bad things and an arsonist is… a bad person.
* He’s
*positive
Damn, I type too fast!
RYPERT – your comments (and others) on the internet have been seen by the powers that be. The hatred toward homeless people and arsonists is palpable and the authorities know it, hence a little extra precaution against suspected arsonists in this town. Don’t worry, the fact that his face is blurred out in this one photo does not mean he won’t be held accountable, just that he will be a real court, not some street justice.
RYPERT is venting the frustration many in the community feel. I say keep it up. The quality of life to those of us that live downtown and in the waterfront area has been so dramatically impacted that the sympathy many of us had years ago has gone. The mess, danger, and disgusting behavior is no longer tolerable.
Hmm SHOW HIS FACE. Is at least what the mob would say but I still wanna see it.
Well, SACJON, the people are a little pissed off and can you blame them? I know I can’t. The thing is 85% – 92% (gauging from responses by the public and removing duplicates for the sake of statistical integirty) of the public is pretty pissed off and understandibly so.
But hey man, keep defending the problem children, everyone needs a hero. The community just wants it’s soul back. Thank you and those you back for stealing it!
RYPERT – good lord you are simple. I never defended this guy, just explained why he face isn’t being shown. Go back to your camp and tidy uniforms.
Agreed. They show faces of those arrested (and not yet convicted) for other (potential) crimes, like the massage parlor owner in Carp, or meth heads arrested… why not of this low-life?