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Crime desk / Late city edition / Reported edition

Two rifles under the counter.

Five warrants hit Davis and Legion Square. Deputies reported 650 grams of narcotics, seven automatic weapons and a gun total their own headline cannot explain.

Crime / Courts / Public safety

The rest of the record.

Editorial reconstruction of sheriff's patrol vehicles at night
Organized crime / Statewide

101 guns. Nine kilos. The sheriff buried one government name.

Task Force Gopher White crossed ten communities and wrote 55 warrants. LSSD named suspects, fugitives and seizures, then withheld the employee and agency behind its only public-integrity disclosure.

By Daily Rag investigations desk / 9 min read
Armored sheriff's vehicles surround a damaged black car in an official image accompanying the pursuit release
Auto theft / Pursuit

One stolen car. Three getaway vehicles. 140 mph through the sewers.

The first crew switched cars in Jamestown. A second driver entered the storm drain. A black Buffalo arrived to collect armed suspects before armored deputies ended the trip.

By Daily Rag public safety desk / 8 min read
A Senora sheriff's patrol car in the official release accompanying the Harmony homicide investigation
Homicide / Harmony

The robbery failed. A customer died. Deputies found the gun at the suspect's house.

A Route 68 convenience-store shooting led detectives to Mickey Pope's residence, where deputies reported the murder weapon, another gun, 150 rounds and 60 grams of methamphetamine.

By Daily Rag county desk / 6 min read
An LSPD air unit observes tactical deputies moving through the San Vitus backyard operation
Homicide / Vinewood

Two men were murdered on Spanish Avenue. The suspect went to a backyard party.

Deputies searching San Vitus for Hector Zamora found him among a crowd. An unrelated shooting suspect was standing nearby with a pistol and narcotics.

By Daily Rag homicide desk / 6 min read
Editorial reconstruction of Aiden Peralta watching investigators examine a burned car on Calais Avenue
Arson / Vehicle crime

The car was tied to a shooting. Its owner torched it and came back as a bystander.

SAN FIRE says Aiden Peralta returned to the Calais Avenue scene as a bystander, was identified through the registration and later admitted burning his Declasse Asea.

By Daily Rag crime desk / 5 min read