This thread will be used for updated individual cases reported daily of IAs crimes committed against US citizens. Not all crimes, of course, that would be to long and I don't have the appetite for that, so will post selected reports. This thread will be reported crimes, which is probably only 7% committed that go unreported.
Mexican gang connection in shooting, arrests in St. George, Salt Lake City
By Bob Mims
The Salt Lake Tribune
A shooting in St. George led to a drug bust and a statewide, multiagency manhunt for two suspects who were nabbed in a raid early Saturday at a Salt Lake City home.
St. George police spokesman Johnny Heppler said the cascading criminal investigation began when officers rushed to the scene of an 11:45 p.m. Thursday shooting in the 1000 East block of 740 North in St. George. A gunman had fired as many as six shots inside a car, wounding a woman in the shoulder. She was treated at Dixie Regional Medical Center and was reported to be in fair condition.
Leads developed by St. George detectives and the Washington County Gang and Drug Task Force identified two suspects in the shooting, Mariano Anguiano, 37, and Francisco Anguiano, 27. The brothers allegedly have a history of criminal activities in the St. George area, and they are believed connected to the Barrio San Juan gang, Heppler said.
He said the Washington County sheriff’s SWAT unit obtained a search warrant early Friday morning for a Washington City residence where the suspects had been staying. A boy was arrested and unspecified evidence of illegal drug distribution seized, but the Anguianos had already fled the home.
Detectives developed new leads, however, that the suspects had left southern Utah and were hiding in a home in the 1400 West block of 900 South in Salt Lake City, about 300 miles to the north.
Early Saturday, officers from Washington County, along with the Salt Lake Area Metro Gang Unit and U.S. Marshals Office raided the Salt Lake City home and took both suspects into custody without incident. The two men, both Mexican nationals, were booked into the Salt Lake County jail about 4 a.m. Saturday under a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold order.
Heppler said plans were being made to return the suspects to Washington County to face prosecution. That could occur as early as Monday, he said.