Deputies got 911 call on Sacramento immigration raid. Feds called minutes later
As several people were detained in an immigration raid in south Sacramento, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office was fielding calls from observers and federal officials, which created a timeline as events unfolded Thursday morning.
The raid took place around the Home Depot store at 4641 Florin Road, in unincorporated south Sacramento. A woman said she saw her husband, a U.S. citizen, being taken by federal agents after he had told her at about 7:50 a.m. that he saw masked men in the Home Depot parking lot.
“Right now, we have 11 illegal aliens arrest(ed) and 1 U.S. citizen for obstructing/impeding federal officers and vandalism of government property,” David Kim, assistant chief patrol agent of the U.S. Border Patrol El Centro Sector, said in a written statement. NorCal Resist, an advocacy group, said one of its volunteer observers was detained.
The Sheriff’s Office does not assist federal immigration enforcement officers, said Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a Sheriff’s Office spokesperson.
“At no time did the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office assist with any immigration enforcement,” he said in a statement. “California law enforcement agencies are legally prohibited from doing so per state law (SB 54), and the Sheriff’s Office does not serve as an immigration enforcement agency.
“Our deputies remain committed to protecting all residents of Sacramento County, and we strongly encourage anyone to report crimes or suspicious activity, regardless of their citizenship or immigration status,” he added.
At 7:49 a.m., a Sheriff’s Office dispatcher said a caller had reported seeing roughly 15 people, masked and armed with guns, who were “grabbing people and putting them into vehicles,” according to radio traffic reviewed by The Sacramento Bee.
The Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a 911 call was placed from the Home Depot at 7:47 a.m. Gandhi said that when deputies responded to the area, they found the parking lot clear but were “waved down by another individual who stated that her husband had possibly been arrested.”
Two minutes later, at 7:51 a.m., the dispatcher said the Sheriff’s Office had just received a call from Border Patrol — a part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection — notifying deputies about immigration enforcement action at the Home Depot. The Sheriff’s Office confirmed that federal authorities had contacted deputies at 7:51 to notify them of the enforcement action.
“Although not required, it is common practice for outside law enforcement agencies to advise local jurisdictions when they conduct enforcement activities outside their normal areas of operation,” he said in a later statement.
Gandhi said a second 911 call was made six minutes later about two blocks south of the Home Depot on the 4500 block of A Parkway.
Gandhi said that the 911 caller had said that a neighbor had asked them to call after seeing a burglary with at least two armed individuals. The person who called believed the activity on the block was a burglary, Gandhi said, but the Sheriff’s Office confirmed that it was federal immigration enforcement, “not some type of criminal activity.”
According to radio traffic, the dispatcher said the caller reported later seeing two federal agents walking a handcuffed person out of a house.
At 8:06 a.m., a man on the radio — apparently a sheriff’s deputy on the scene — said a woman outside the Home Depot whose spouse had been “taken by ICE” was “demanding a supervisor.”
The federal agents who detained several people in south Sacramento were from Border Patrol, not Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Gandhi.
This story was originally published July 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM.