In the early morning of October 18, 2025, Santa Barbara Police Officers responded to the 100 block of Juana Maria Avenue for a report of a prowler in the area.
Once officers arrived, they learned that an unidentified suspect had entered a home through an unlocked door and committed a sexual assault against an adult.
Officers flooded the area, searching for the suspect, but were unable to locate the individual.
Detectives took over the investigation, conducted extensive follow-up, and identified a suspect. On October 30, 2025, Detectives arrested the suspect, Eduardo Gallardo-Arizmendi, a 22-year-old Santa Barbara resident, in the 100 block of East Carrillo Street.
During the investigation, Detectives also identified Gallardo-Arizmendi as a suspect in a robbery committed on October 25, 2025, at a local business in the area of 2000 State Street.
Gallardo-Arizmendi was booked at the Santa Barbara County Jail for several felonies relating to sexual assault, burglary, and robbery.
His bail was set at $1,000,000 (one million). These cases are still active and under investigation.
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Get rid of this criminal. Nice work SBPD. Let’s hope our DA can lock this enemy up for a long long time. Defund the police? No thank you.
BASICNOED – you keep crying about “defunding the police” yet it’s not happening and no one around here is calling for it. In fact, SBPD has been getting larger budgets each year lately.
If you’re really, actually concerned about this, you should complain to Trump about using more money on ICE agents than actual, real cops who are out there busting criminals and detectives who are solving crimes.
But no, you don’t know how to do anything but imagine yourself the victim and cry. Cry. Cry. Cry. Why must you cry so?
The president that BasicIQ voted for has defunded the FBI. Agents that were assigned to stopping drug trafficking, investigating bank robberies, cartels, MS-13 and other heinous crimes were let go. Many agents,while still with the FBI, are forced to assist ICE terrorize Home Depot parking lots. You want to talk about defund.
GT – Exactly. BASIC has supported defunding federal police all along. He knew Trump’s team was planning to destroy the FBI but he obediently waddled along to the polls to CHOSE THAT.
Additionally, he voted for someone who allowed them to be beaten to death and then their assailants released into the streets despite violent crimes convictions. He voted for someone who promised to use the DOJ to prosecute his own personal enemies instead of going after real criminals. He voted for someone who has admitted to sexual assault, lurking in children’s dressing rooms and has been adjudicated of rape, not to mention accused of raping numerous adult women and several children. He voted for crime and now he cries about “defunding the police.”
BASIC is A OK with criminals unless they’re local, not billionaires and have foreign names.
Support your white collar state and federal criminal! Like the president does.
“President Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and his former top aide in the state legislature just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.
Glen Casada, who was ousted from his position as the Republican speaker of the Tennessee House just months into the job in 2019, received a phone call from Trump on Thursday informing him of the decision, said his attorney, Ed Yarbrough.
Casada, 66, was sentenced in September to three years in federal prison on charges related to a kickback and bribery arrangement involving the legislature’s state-funded constituent mailer program. Cade Cothren, 38, previously Casada’s chief of staff, was also convicted of fraud and related federal charges and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. They were due to report to prison later this month.
Cothren, who resigned amid allegations of making sexual advances to a state legislative intern, drug use in the state Capitol complex and sending racist text messages, also received a call from Trump informing him of the pardon, Yarbrough said. Both men had pleaded not guilty to federal charges.
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Last month, Trump drew scrutiny after pardoning Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire executive of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange. He told CBS News that he did not know who Zhao was, but took action because he “heard it was a Biden witch hunt.” In May, Trump’s crypto company, World Liberty Financial, announced a deal in which one of its crypto coins would be used in a $2 billion transaction between Binance and MGX, the state-backed Emirati investment firm.” Washington Post