The National City Police Department announced the arrests of two people in connection to a double homicide that happened outside of a Halloween party last year.
During the investigation, referred to as Operation Broken Bandz, they also uncovered seven additional suspects who detectives say are not related to the murders, but now face federal and state drug and firearm charges.
“Those particular charges against those defendants stem from a search warrant executed at a residence in which law enforcement found, among other items, approximately 18 pounds of methamphetamine,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, Randy Grossman, added. Five of the total nine people who were arrested in relation to this group are adults. Their names are Ivan Martinez, Joseph Romero, Ricardo Ortez, Francisco Valadez and Edgar Zapata.
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