Veteran California police officer killed in shootout during transnational drug ring takedown

An Army seasoned constabulary serviceman was killed successful a shootout during an operational crackdown connected transnational cause trafficking organizations infiltrating illicit drugs into the United States, California officials said Wednesday.

Yuba County District Attorney Clint Curry said successful a Wednesday day property league that aggregate instrumentality enforcement agencies launched 20 hunt warrants crossed Yuba, Sutter, Tehama and Butte counties arsenic a effect of a multi-year probe into the trafficking of methamphetamines and fentanyl. 

A Marysville Police Department serviceman was injured during an speech of gunfire betwixt instrumentality enforcement and a idiosyncratic wrong a location authorities were investigating, Yuba County Sheriff Wendell Anderson said. The officer, who was taken to the Adventist Health and Rideout hospital, aboriginal died from his injuries. 

"Obviously, this calamity has rocked our tiny community," Anderson said.

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Yuba County District Attorney Clint Curry announced the decease of a constabulary serviceman who was changeable and killed during a cause trafficking probe successful Northern California connected March 26, 2025. (Yuba County Sheriff's Office)

The gunman was changeable and killed, Anderson said. A 2nd idiosyncratic was wrong the house, and is being considered a witnesser astatine this time, Curry said.

The sheriff said the gunman died astatine the scene, and determination was different idiosyncratic wrong the location who DA Curry said is being considered a witnesser astatine this time.

Yuba County Sheriff Wendell Anderson announced the decease of a Maryville Police Department during an office-involved shooting connected Wednesday greeting successful Northern California. (Yuba County Sheriff's Office)

During the quality conference, Marysville Police Chief Christian Sachs did not place the serviceman killed, saying that the section volition instrumentality Wednesday to grant and mourn him. He said they whitethorn merchandise much accusation astir the serviceman connected Thursday.

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Sachs said helium was "a loved one, a brother, a begetter and a adjacent friend."

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Curry said that earlier instrumentality enforcement launched their hunt warrants that they seized hundreds of pounds of antithetic drugs, including methamphetamine and fentaNYL.

"These were large players moving poison done our communities," helium said. "And we couldn’t conscionable beryllium and ticker it happen. We had to bash thing astir it. And it’s conscionable tragic and each of america would conscionable inquire that you beryllium praying for the officer’s household and for this instrumentality enforcement assemblage that’s besides grieving today."

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The officer's decease marks the archetypal clip successful implicit a period that a Marysville serviceman has been killed successful the enactment of duty. The recognition of the serviceman is being withheld pending adjacent of kin notifications.