Anonymous
Source: Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office arrested an Isla Vista man for felony vandalism after a bizarre incident at a Goleta 7-Eleven convenience store.
Just after 9:00 AM on Wednesday, September 18, 2019, the Sheriff’s Office received a call of a man destroying property and merchandise at the 7-Eleven convenience store located in the 7300 block of Calle Real in the City of Goleta. According to employees who called 9-1-1, 27-year-old Isla Vista resident Ghazi Elayyan entered the 7-Eleven convenience store making incoherent statements. He immediately began destroying merchandise, throwing dozens of glass bottles onto the floor and damaging several display cases.
There were no other customers in the store at the time, and employees were able to hide in a rear office as Elayyan continued to destroy merchandise and other property. Sheriff’s deputies from the Goleta Valley Patrol Bureau, Isla Vista Foot Patrol and the Crisis Intervention Team responded and contacted Elayyan as he stood in front of the store, still screaming and suffering from several cuts on his hands and feet. Elayyan was taken into custody without incident and was evaluated by members of the Sheriff’s Crisis Intervention Team at the scene. He was ultimately booked into the Santa Barbara Main Jail for a violation of Penal Code §594(b)(1) – Felony Vandalism.
Due to mental health concerns, deputies completed a mental health evaluation form which will trigger a mental health evaluation while in custody, ensuring any treatment needs are met. The Crisis Intervention Team, under the direction of the Sheriff’s Behavioral Sciences Unit, conducts wellness check’s on persons with mental health concerns once they are released from custody.
Elayyan is currently in-custody and being held on $20,000 bail.
When I lived in New York during the dirty years of the 1980’s and you pulled this stunt in any bodega in town – you would either be shot the Owner or pepper sprayed by his wife.
Triage these criminal vagrants: the have nots; the can nots; the will nots. He is either a cannot or a will not. Time to take him off the streets and secure them for the rest of us.
No way this guy was tripping on drugs, right? Right?
Poor guy he looks so Unhappy maybe he needs a bottle.
another white man looses his shit and takes it out on everyone else. big surprise.
If not already, this guy will likely be living on the street at some point.
WOW!! How Raciest of you!!! 4:04 How sad 🙁
Regardless of his color, all humans are capable of what he did. He went on a rampage and that’s all we know so far. I doubt we will ever find out why.
WWMWD? What would Marianne Williamson do? He needs a hug.
Google lists as “field engineer for PG&E” so why is someone in this thread characterizing the accused as a “vagrant”. Seriously, that is a smear on those who are called “vagrant” i.e., itinerant individuals who sleep rough as they travel, or in a second meaning, quasi-local homeless who move around. Whatever issues you may have with those people, who are less fortunate than we keyboard surfers, they don’t go around trashing retail stores. I could go on with this characterization of this incident as “another white man goes berserk” but rather than take the bait, I will simply take one more step back from the mob mentality that racializes every ill that befalls this world.
The contents of this thread (and others like it in this forum) are very sobering
An employed man with seemingly mental issues. So sad. But boy, did he make a mess. Hope he gets help and doesn’t get fired from his job.
At the new 7-11 they’re opening near Macy’s, no less. Great move for the community – let’s open more 7-11s but make it h*ll for locals to open nicer businesses. God forbid anyone have a stylish neon sign, but 7-11, that’s great.
FACT. Can’t agree with you more. And our wonderful state is calling this a “housing crisis”. What a joke. We have a vagrant, drug addict crisis. All the houses in the world are not going to help. When are they going to get that through their thick skulls. We have a leadership crisis in this state as well. Expect more of this type of behavior.
At least it’s safer than driving an SUV through a mall…
7-11 appears to be in cahoots with a pervasive EBT money laundering scam. Lots of dealing done in 7-11 parking lots. Time to expose the massive “wealth redistribution” EBT cards now stand for. Put free “government money” on the table, and you would be surprised who comes in to scoop it up. More swamp creatures. Funded by our tax dollars.