storage facilities in Lompoc, California. Stockham was convicted of kidnapping, but during his arson trial, he was found legally insane and sent to Patton State Hospital, from which he escaped in October 1981 and eluded capture for four months before surrendering. Mosque bomb man spoke of conver...
, city, Santa Barbara county, southwesternCalifornia, U.S. It lies along the Santa Ynez River in the coastal Lompoc valley, 155 miles (250 km) northwest ofLos Angeles. Originally inhabited byChumashIndians, the area was part of a Spanish land grant established in 1787. The city was founded...