California gurdwara shootings: 17 males arrested; AK-47, machine gun seized

By India Today World Desk: Seventeen people have been arrested by police inside the US state of California in reference to shootings in gurdwaras at Sacramento, Stockton and totally different locations, in accordance with the State Attorney General.

Police carried out a sequence of raids at higher than 20 areas in northern California on Sunday and seized weapons equivalent to an AK-47, one machine gun and handguns. The 17 arrests made had been principally members of the native Sikh neighborhood, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Yuba City Police Chief Brian Baker, and Sutter County District Attorney Jennifer Dupré talked about at a press conference.

Two of the 17 people arrested belonged to the mafia and are wished in numerous murder situations in India.

The arrested accused belong to rival felony syndicates who’re allegedly liable for quite a few violent crimes and shootings, along with 5 tried murder incidents in Sutter, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Yolo, and Merced counties, the California Attorney General talked about.

Members of these felony syndicates allegedly had a hand in a mass capturing at a Stockton Sikh temple on August 27, 2022 and, one different capturing at a Sacramento Sikh temple on March 23 this 12 months.

A press launch acknowledged that police had been able to thwart the potential of two additional shootings.

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“Today, California is safer thanks to collaboration, determination, and swift action by DOJ agents and our law enforcement partners in Sutter County,” Bonta talked about.

“No family should ever have to worry about drive-by shootings or other forms of gun violence in the neighbourhoods where their children live and play. As a result of this joint law enforcement effort, we’re taking guns off the street and putting suspected gang members and their associates behind bars,” he talked about.

Dupre talked about, “An investigation of this magnitude requires a tremendous amount of time and effort, and especially a lot of personnel.”

(with inputs from PTI)