Sweep Nets Shooting Suspect, Weapons
The Orange Police Department and other law enforcement agencies served 15 search warrants Thursday in connection with a March 26 gang-related shooting, police said.
A confrontation between rival gangs led to the shooting of two men, both of whom survived, said Capt. Art Romo of the Orange Police Department.
The primary suspect, Emiliano Mojica, 19, was arrested in Santa Ana early Thursday along with six others, Romo said.
Mojica was booked into Orange County Jail on a charge of attempted murder. The other arrests were related to drug offenses, parole violations or outstanding warrants, Romo said. A shotgun, two replica handguns, a small quantity of heroin and papers related to gang affiliation also were seized.
The four search-warrant and 11 probation and parole searches in Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach and Orange were the culmination of the shooting investigation, Romo said. Gang units, detectives, police officers and parole and probation officers from those cities cooperated in the effort, he said.
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