California family kidnapped

2022 - 10 - 6

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California family, including baby, found dead after armed kidnapping (The Washington Post)

The Merced County sheriff said an 8-month-old, her parents and her uncle were found dead after they were kidnapped at gunpoint.

At a previous news conference, county law enforcement officials said Salgado was convicted of a robbery in 2005 and released on parole in 2015. The man was then seen leaving with the family members, some of whom appeared to have their hands zip-tied behind their backs, and loading them into a vehicle before driving away. “We found the four people from the kidnapping, and they are in fact deceased.”

Officials are working to determine a motive after a kidnapped family ... (CNN)

A farm worker initially found the bodies of 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri in an orchard in Merced County, California, in the same vicinity as her parents Jasleen ...

Later Monday, a farmer found two of the victims’ cell phones on a road, authorities said. In the previous case, Salgado was sentenced to 11 years in January 2007. Shortly before 9 a.m., Jasdeep is seen encountering a man outside the business. Investigators learned they were missing after a family vehicle was found [abandoned and on fire that morning](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/us/california-family-missing/index.html), authorities said. CNN has been unable to identify an attorney for him, and calls to family members have gone unanswered. Warnke did not say how the family was slain.

Family of four, including 8-month-old, found dead after being ... (Globalnews.ca)

The family of four, including an 8-month-old infant, were found dead in an orchard in rural Merced County in central California, police confirmed.

Warnke described the area as “extremely rural.” “There’s a special place in hell for this guy.” In two separate car trips, the family is kidnapped at gunpoint by an unknown person. The cause of death for the family members has not yet been revealed by police. Merced County Sheriff Vernon Warnke confirmed the deaths at a press conference on Wednesday evening. [Video footage](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sole-lead-search-kidnapped-california-family-unconscious-suicide-attem-rcna50817) released by police on Wednesday shows the group being forcibly taken from their family-run trucking business.

A Kidnapped California Family Has Been Found & 'Our Worst Fears ... (Narcity)

Four members of a family who were kidnapped earlier this week from a business in California's Merced County were found dead by a farm worker in a rural farm ...

The two men's hands were zip-tied behind their backs. They say he'd been caught using one of the victim's ATM cards. They were ultimately found dead on Wednesday night after a major search.

Officials are working to determine a motive after a kidnapped family ... (CTV News)

Investigators in California are working to determine the motive behind the killing of a family of four -- including an 8-month-old baby -- as the bodies ...

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Map: Where California family was kidnapped, found dead (SFGate)

Members of a missing California family were found dead in an orchard, 30 miles south of where they were kidnapped in Merced County, officials said.

The truck yard with a trailer acting as an office is located on the 800 block of South Highway 59, just south of downtown Merced, a city of 86,000 people about 125 miles southeast of San Francisco. [California](https://www.sfgate.com/california/) [family](https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/video-shows-california-family-kidnapped-17489625.php) were found dead Wednesday evening in a San Joaquin Valley orchard, about 30 miles south of where they were kidnapped at gunpoint in Merced County on Monday morning, officials said. [Unison Trucking](https://ktla.com/news/california-wire/search-continues-for-kidnapped-california-family-please-let-them-go/), when they were allegedly abducted by Jesus Salgado, 48, the Merced County Sheriff's Office [said](https://www.facebook.com/MercedSheriffOffice/posts/pfbid02W5EKZjt4ezpkc5pQ39SKPkqjFdzikRbsCQ7TFqoFcXH5gJ2bcsAUqE6wE6djFwcWl).

'Our worst fears': Kidnapped baby, parents, uncle found dead (ABC News)

Police say a baby girl, her parents and uncle have been found dead in a central California orchard two days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint from their ...

and relatives said they had opened an office in the last few weeks in a parking lot the Singh brothers also operated. The feud with Salgado dated back a year, the sheriff said, and “got pretty nasty” in text messages or emails. Salgado tried to take his own life before police arrived at a home in Atwater — where an ATM card belonging to one of the victims was used after the kidnapping — about 9 miles (14 kilometers) north of Merced. Salgado was previously convicted of first-degree robbery with the use of a firearm in Merced County, attempted false imprisonment and an attempt to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness. Relatives of Salgado contacted authorities and told them he had admitted to them his involvement in the kidnapping, Warnke told KFSN-TV on Tuesday. Relatives and fellow members of the Punjabi Sikh community, meanwhile, were shocked by the killings.