A police officer who served in the Army tragically lost his life in a gun battle while participating in a mission to take down criminal organizations smuggling illegal drugs into the United States, California officials announced on Wednesday.
During a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Yuba County District Attorney Clint Curry disclosed that numerous law enforcement agencies executed 20 search warrants in Yuba, Sutter, Tehama, and Butte counties following a lengthy investigation into the distribution of methamphetamines and fentanyl.
One officer from the Marysville Police Department sustained injuries during a shootout with an individual inside a residence being investigated by authorities, according to Yuba County Sheriff Wendell Anderson. Tragically, the officer passed away at Adventist Health and Rideout hospital due to the severity of the injuries.
“Obviously, this tragedy has rocked our small community,” Anderson said.
Sachs said he was “a loved one, a brother, a father and a close friend.”
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Curry said that before law enforcement launched their search warrants that they seized hundreds of pounds of different drugs, including methamphetamine and fentaNYL.
“These were major players moving poison through our communities,” he said. “And we couldn’t just sit and watch it happen. We had to do something about it. And it’s just tragic and all of us would just ask that you be praying for the officer’s family and for this law enforcement community that’s also grieving today.”
The officer’s death marks the first time in over a century that a Marysville officer has been killed in the line of duty. The identification of the officer is being withheld pending next of kin notifications.
