{"id":23252,"date":"2024-01-30T03:39:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T09:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=23252"},"modified":"2024-01-30T03:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T09:39:22","slug":"marijuana-dispute-likely-led-to-killing-of-6-people-found-in-mojave-desert-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=23252","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana dispute likely led to killing of 6 people found in Mojave Desert, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The killings of six people found shot in the California desert<\/a>, in which some of the victims were also burned, is believed to have stemmed from a dispute over marijuana, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five people were arrested Sunday in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, and the sheriff\u2019s office said there are no other outstanding suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can guarantee you we got the five right people,\u201d Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The six victims were found last week in or near two vehicles at an intersection in El Mirage, in the Mojave Desert, after one of the victims called 911 at around 8:16 p.m. Tuesday and said he\u2019d been shot but didn\u2019t know where he was, sheriff\u2019s Sgt. Michael Warrick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt appeared the call ended,\u201d Warrick said. The phone was tracked, and a Dodge Caravan that had been shot multiple times was found, as well as a Chevy Trailblazer, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five bodies were found there, and a sixth victim was found some distance away, Warrick said. Four of the victims had been burned at the location, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are confident that this appears to be a dispute over marijuana, which resulted in the murders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scale of and the reason for the marijuana dispute were not clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sheriff\u2019s office identified those arrested as Toniel Baez-Duarte, 34, and Mateo Baez-Duarte, 24, both of Apple Valley, and Jose Nicolas Hernandez-Sarabia, 33, Jose Gregorio Hernandez-Sarabia, 34, and Jose Manuel Burgos Parra, 26, all of Adelanto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were being held without bond Monday night as the district attorney reviews the case for charges, Warrick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four of the victims have been identified, the sheriff\u2019s department said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are Baldemar Mondragon-Albarran, 34, of Adelanto; Franklin Noel Bonilla, 22, of Hesperia; Kevin Dariel Bonilla, 25, of Hesperia; and a 45-year-old man whose name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, the sheriff’s department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voters legalized\u2002<\/a>recreational marijuana in California in 2016, but Dicus, the sheriff, said illicit marijuana grows have been a scourge in areas of the San Bernardino County desert, as well as other places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dicus said his office last year executed 411 search warrants related to illegal grows in San Bernardino County and seized 655,000 plants, 74,000 pounds of processed marijuana and around $370 million. Fourteen “honey oil” labs were also found, Dicus said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warrick said eight guns were recovered when the sheriff\u2019s office executed search warrants and made the five arrests related to last week’s killings. The areas of search warrants were adjacent to illegal marijuana grows, but none were at grows, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case remains under active investigation, Warrick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The killings of six people found shot in the California desert, in which some of the victims were also burned, is believed to have stemmed from a dispute over marijuana, officials said Monday. Five people were arrested Sunday in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, and the sheriff\u2019s office said there are no other outstanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[6390,26241,26239,1530,26240,3624],"class_list":["post-23252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-burns","tag-california-desert","tag-marijuana-dispute","tag-shooting","tag-six-people","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23254,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252\/revisions\/23254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}