The Santa Maria (CA) Police Department — like the FBI — is in the fake news business. Last February, it issued a bogus press release via online service Nixle, falsely stating it had apprehended two suspects. This was picked up by local news sources and redistributed. It wasn‘t until until December that the ruse was uncovered. The Sun — which hadn‘t released a story on the bogus press release — discovered this fact in a pile of court documents.