Lawrence Matthew Brennen, 39, has been identified as the deceased man found last week inside an apartment on Los Aguajes Avenue in Santa Barbara’s West Beach neighborhood.
On the night of October 28, the Santa Barbara Police Department received a call requesting a welfare check at an apartment in the West Beach neighborhood on Los Aguajes Avenue. Officers reported to the residence where they “identified suspicious circumstances,” according to SBPD Lieutenant Ryan DeJohn, which then led officers to arrest two residents of the apartment, Jenica Ochoa, 45, and Kenneth Tompkins, 43, that night.
SBPD began investigating the incident and obtained a search warrant which they served the next day. Officers searched the residence just before 7 a.m. on October 29 and found Brennen’s body wrapped in a bed roll, placed in a metal container, and sealed with plastic wrap…