Arrested Ignacio Moran Kick, 24, for the stabbing and for acting as a gang member, Sgt. Steve Fraga reported.Police officers went to the Monte Vista Apartment complex at about 4 a.m. Sunday after getting calls about gunfire and a fight.They found Geno Cairo, 21, of San Francisco, with a large stomach wound collapsed in front of the complex.He underwent emergency surgery at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and Sunday was in critical condition but expected to live. Cairo had come to Santa Rosa to visit a cousin who lives at the complex.Cairo apparently had been confronted in a parking lot by a group of suspected gang members and then was stabbed, Fraga said. The wounded man had made his way to the front of the residential area before falling to the ground.Gang and violent crime detectives spent Sunday interviewing witnesses and searching two apartments in the complex, one related to the stabbing and one to the report of shots fired, Fraga said.Detectives found evidence in one apartment linking Kick, a resident there, to the stabbing. He was arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide and two gang enhancements.Officers also determined multiple shots had been fired at the complex just prior to the stabbing. No one reportedly was injured.The stabbing was related to the gunfire, said Fraga, who released no further details. On Sunday, Fraga indicated Cairo wasn’t believed to have been involved in the gunfire and that he wasn’t a gang member.
Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club compound,Ronald B. Campbell,Andrea G. Reeder,Dylan C. Grose,William C. Casteel.arrested
Four people were arrested on suspected drug charges, including the group's leader.Methamphetamine was found at the Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club compound at West 19th Avenue and South Gum Street. Benton County Undersheriff Paul Hart said they needed so many officers as a "precautionary" step because the Gypsy Jokers are known to be connected to drugs and other criminal activities."It is an outlaw motorcycle gang with convicted felons who reside there," Hart said. "We gear up to meet that threat."Some stolen property and a couple of weapons also were seized, he said. The Violent Crimes Task Force, made up of federal agents and local police detectives, raided the club house and two homes at 5 a.m.The Benton County Regional SWAT team and the Yakima SWAT team were used to help search all the buildings."Because of the large site ... it makes it difficult to secure and make sure everybody is safe," Hart said. "The Violent Crimes Task Force ... ...
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