The raids were announced at a Thursday afternoon press conference, part of a series of investigations over the past two weeks involving Vallejo police, the California Highway Patrol, and federal authorities, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
"I think someone was dropping a child off, it's my understanding, right this morning when the operation was happening and it was [the daycare owner's] son who was one of the targets of the investigation," said Michele Beckwith, the Acting U.S Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
A second operation Thursday headed by the FBI targeted members of a Vallejo gang trafficking illegal guns and drugs. According to federal authorities, the Brown Brotherhood gang is a subset of the Sureño gang that is involved in murder, robbery, extortion, drug trafficking, firearms trafficking, burglary, and stolen vehicles.
Warrants were served Thursday in Vallejo, Fairfield, Dixon and Suisun City, said Sid Patel, the FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Sacramento Field Office. "The drugs that we captured, a portion of it was 16 pounds of methamphetamine, a half-pound of cocaine, and 100,000 fentanyl pills," said Patel.
"ATF seized 24 firearms including four machine gun conversion devices," said Jennifer Cicolani, the ATF Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Field Division.
The Vallejo Police Department credited its latest crackdown on a partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice focused on "strategic and surgical crime suppression and enforcement."
"I believe that when we have success, we need to celebrate those successes, and this one is a huge success today," said Vallejo Police Chief Jason Ta. Many community partners were on hand Thursday as law enforcement detailed the latest two operations. Several told CBS News Bay Area they were happy to see such significant action to combat crime in the city. "I've been here over 17 years, so I'm happy to see the collaboration, community, the agencies working together to make Vallejo a safer place," said Katie Burns, a member of the Vallejo PD's Integrated Health and Resource Team, a mobile crisis response unit Vallejo police say these operations part of a federal partnership program the department was accepted into last year. That program will continue for another two years.
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