Full Notification

SANTA BARBARA, CA – March 19, 2015

Investigators from the Santa Barbara Police Department recently received notification from the Mexican Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduria General de la Republica) that on September 30, 2014 the Ninth District Judge in Nezahualcoyotl, State of Mexico, sentenced Pedro Alonso Bravo to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murder. Bravo did not appeal the decision and is serving his sentence in Mexico.

The Mexican Penal Code allows for Mexican citizens who allegedly commit crimes in foreign countries and then flee to Mexico to be arrested and prosecuted there. This procedure is often utilized in cases where the suspect may face the death penalty in the country where the crime occurred.

Pictured: Bravo, 2013 & 1988.

SANTA BARBARA, CA – April 9, 2013

On September 30, 1988 at 11:20 p.m., 24-year old Bernardo Santos Sierra was murdered by Pedro Alonso Bravo, then 33-years old, in front of Bravo’s residence at 1305 Punta Gorda Street. Sierra was shot multiple times with a handgun. Following the incident Bravo, a Mexican citizen, fled to Mexico where he remained a fugitive from justice.

Following a collaborative effort by the Santa Barbara Police Department, the California Department of Justice, and the Mexican Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR), Bravo was arrested on March 8, 2013 for this murder in Mexico and is currently in custody in Mexico City.

Chief of Police Camerino Sanchez, accompanied by members of the Sierra family, will be holding a press conference on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Murphy Room of the Santa Barbara Police Department, 215 E. Figueroa Street, to discuss the details of this case.