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Operation linked to the massacre of a family in California leaves weapons and drugs seized and 26 detained

2023-02-27T02:57:35.951Z


The people arrested are part of the Norteños gang, authorities said. They also located an illegal firearms workshop and searched 23 cells "of known members" of the gang in different state prisons.


At least 26 people were arrested in California as part of Operation Nightmare, which over four days inspected 97 homes to capture members of the Norteños gang, linked to the January 16 massacre in a rural area of ​​Goshen where a mother and her baby were killed along with other members of her family, Tulare County police said.

Authorities also seized five firearms, ammunition and drugs, including two pounds of methamphetamine and one ounce of cocaine, the Tulare County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Saturday.

[Two men are arrested for the murder of a mother and her baby in California.

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Police named Jimmy Analla Jr, 31, among those arrested;

Carlos Garcia Jr, 25;

Carlos Garcia, father, 44;

Julie Balderama, 27;

Rigoberto Benavides, 36;

Patricia Flores, 30;

Michael Castro, 40, and Tommy Gonzáles, 30. The suspects are originally from the city of Visalia and the town of Goshen, where the massacre occurred.

Among the charges they are charged with are possession of methamphetamine and cocaine for sale, possession of an assault weapon, manufacturing an illegal weapon, possession of ammunition, violation of probation and endangerment of minors. 

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The operation, which lasted four days, involved at least eight police departments from various cities in the area.

“The operation focused on checking probation and probation compliance, as well as apprehending known gang members from throughout Tulare County,” the statement said.

These arrests are added to two others made at the beginning of February and that are part of the same crime linked to violence between rival gangs.

[Six people die, including a baby and his teenage mother, shot in a house in a Latino farming town in California]

Two members of the murdered family and some of the detainees have a long history of violence between gangs, the authorities specified, although

until now the reason for the massacre

in which Rosa Parraz, 72, died;

Eladio Parraz, Jr., 52;

Jennifer Analla, 49;

Marcos Parraz, 19;

Alissa Parraz, 16;

and Nycholas Parraz, 10 months.

The victims included members of the Sureños gang, Tulare County sheriff Mike Boudreaux said in early February.

At that time it was specified that one of those captured was responsible for the execution of the teenager and her baby.

Some of the items seized in Operation Nightmare. Tulare County Sheriff's Office.

The new raid

did not reveal what role each person played in the massacre

, but police said they located an illegal factory that allowed suspects to assemble and sell "untraceable firearms to other gang members." 

Authorities found parts to assemble pistols, AR-15-style assault rifles and automatic weapons.

Concurrent with the warrants being executed in Tulare County, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation searched 23 cells “of known members of the Norteño and Nuestra Familia gangs in multiple prisons” across the state. 

According to police reports, the massacre occurred in the early hours of February 16 in a rural town of about 3,000 inhabitants, in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley.

Due to the nature of the shots found in the victims, the authorities considered from the beginning that it was not a random act of violence but rather an execution.

“We believe a family was targeted,” Boudreaux insisted at the time.

Source: telemundo

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