KTXL -- El Dorado County officials say a man who called to report a marijuana theft was booked into jail Thursday for manslaughter. Sheriff John D'Agostini told reporters Thursday afternoon year-old Christopher Ross called deputies to report that the people inside his marijuana grow behind his Somerset home on Sand Ridge Road were stealing. In reality, Ross actually had some type of business arrangement with the two men in his garden. D'Agostini said Ross did not tell the dispatcher about his relationship with the two men.
The sheriff said Deputy Ishmael and the off-duty deputy both returned fire but both were struck by bullets. FOX40 reached out to U. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the suspects' immigration statuses Thursday. An ICE spokesperson responded saying:. At this time, we do not have any information on these individuals.
However, we do expect to learn more about them in the coming days. This is another example of how sanctuary city laws, like SB54, bars our agency from getting into local jails to even conduct interviews. Vazquez underwent surgery for a gunshot wound but is expected to be released from the hospital and booked into jail on charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
Anthony Principe. We all were touched by Brian in one way or another. From behind bars Thursday at the Sacramento County Main Jail, Ross maintained that the call he allegedly made Wednesday morning was a legitimate cry for help. The year-old Somerset resident was jailed for manslaughter and accused of lying about his relationship with Vazquez and Morales, who were in the large marijuana garden he had leased out behind his house.
Investigators believe he was trying to get them arrested under false pretenses so he could keep all the profits from the plants. Ross said he feels deputies think he wanted the men killed. Of course not. It's absurd," Ross told FOX The divorced father and Fresno-native said that on and off he has lived in the Sand Ridge Road home that morphed into a crime scene Wednesday since about He claimed it was the second time in three years he has leased out his permitted pot grow to someone else.
