{"id":302875,"date":"2026-05-06T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/302875\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:05:09","slug":"san-luis-obispo-county-home-searched-as-part-of-kristin-smart-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/302875\/","title":{"rendered":"San Luis Obispo County home searched as part of Kristin Smart investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A home in the Arroyo Grande area of San Luis Obispo County was searched Wednesday in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kristin-smart-verdict-paul-flores-guilty-48-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disappearance of Kristin Smart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officers were seen at the East Branch Street home Wednesday morning. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office later confirmed that a search warrant was served at the home in connection with the Smart case.<\/p>\n<p>Smart, a Cal Poly student, disappeared in 1996. Her classmate, Paul Flores, was convicted of her murder in 2022, but her body has never been found.<\/p>\n<p>No other specific details about Wednesday&#8217;s search have been released.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/kristin-smart-case-search-slo-wednesday-may-6-2026.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"kristin-smart-case-search-slo-wednesday-may-6-2026.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Law enforcement serving a search warrant at an Arroyo Grande home in connection to the disappearance of Kristin Smart on May 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                San Luis Obispo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Sheriff&#8217;s Office remains committed to bringing Kristin home to her family,&#8221; the department said in a statement about Wednesday&#8217;s Arroyo Grande search.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/engineers-use-soil-vapor-samples-in-search-for-kristin-smarts-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Investigators previously served a search warrant<\/a> at an Arroyo Grande home in 2020 in connection with Smart&#8217;s disappearance. That home was owned by Susan Flores, Paul&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Flores has maintained his innocence and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/kristin-smarts-killer-appeals-for-new-trial-argues-errors\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">appealing his sentence<\/a> of 25 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A home in the Arroyo Grande area of San Luis Obispo County was searched Wednesday in connection with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[127842,121,123,122,5079],"class_list":["post-302875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-kristin-smart","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-san-luis-obispo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}