SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Thursday it did not participate in recent immigration enforcement operations in the area, according to an official news release.
The sheriff’s office reported that on July 17 at approximately 7:47 a.m., the Communication Center received a 911 call about “a group of armed and masked individuals” in a Home Depot parking lot. When deputies responded, they were met by a woman who said her husband may have been detained. The department did not clarify whether that detention was connected to the armed individuals in the parking lot.
About 10 minutes later, at 7:57 a.m., another 911 call came in from a resident on the 4500 block of A Parkway. The caller said a neighbor had urged him to call authorities because someone was trying to break into his home. When deputies arrived, they encountered U.S. Border Patrol agents conducting enforcement operations…