Sutter deputies find guns and armor-piercing ammo in sexual assault investigation
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- Sutter County sheriff’s investigators served a search warrant at a Yuba City home.
- Investigators found four guns and armor-piercing ammunition at the home.
- The search was part of a sexual assault and assault with a deadly weapon investigation.
Sutter County sheriff’s officials investigating a sexual assault arrested three people Wednesday after serving a search warrant at a Yuba City home and finding guns without serial numbers as well as armor-piercing ammunition.
The investigation began Saturday when deputies responded to a report of a sexual assault and an assault with a deadly weapon at the home in the 800 block of South Barrett Road in a residential neighborhood just east of Highway 99, according to a news release from the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office.
The investigation was then turned over to the sheriff’s Investigations Unit.
On Wednesday, investigators and the sheriff’s Special Enforcement Detail team served a search warrant at the Barrett Road home.
Sheriff’s officials said investigators found four firearms, including a rifle and a semiautomatic handgun without serial numbers, two additional handguns and a 30-round rifle magazine loaded with armor-piercing ammunition.
Evidence related to the assault reported Saturday and a shooting was also found at the home, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff’s officials arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of oral copulation by using force or fear, possession of a loaded unregistered firearm and rape of a person prevented from resisting by intoxication or a controlled substance.
A 20-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, a gun. Sheriff’s officials arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun, possession of a loaded unregistered firearm and being a prohibited person in possession of ammunition.
