Montague murder investigation leads to Sacramento suspect arrest
Detectives have arrested a man for an August murder that occurred at a cannabis cultivation site in Siskiyou County.
Posted: May 7, 2021 10:43 PM
Posted By: Lorraine Dechter
YREKA, Calif. – An arrest was made in Sacramento last week of the suspect in a Siskiyou County murder investigation. The incident occurred in late August at a cannabis cultivation site in the Mt. Shasta Vista subdivision in Montague in Siskiyou County.
Detectives from the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit and detectives with the North State Major Investigations Team (NSMIT) served multiple search warrants on Apr. 29, 2021, in the Sacramento area. They were assisted by members of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.
Siskiyou Daily News
A 26-year-old man was arrested April 29 and charged with the 2020 murder of a San Francisco man at the site of what the Siskiyou County Sheriff s Office said was an illegal commercial cannabis cultivation site in the Mt. Shasta Vista Subdivision.
Alvin Thao of the Sacramento area was arrested as the North State Major Investigations Team, with the help of the Sacramento County Sheriff s Department, served multiple search warrants in the Sacramento area, the sheriff s office announced Friday.
Shao Huang was found dead off of Zane Grey Drive on Aug. 27, 2020, inside a makeshift living area constructed with two-by-fours and plywood, Siskiyou County Undersheriff James Randall said in March.
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A Tigard, Oregon man was arrested on Friday after officers say they found three loaded handguns, heroin, methamphetamine, drug sales paraphernalia and an improvised explosive device inside his car.
Chad Curtis Loynachan, age 29, had a previous felony charge that prohibited him from having firearms, according to a press release from Yreka Area California Highway Patrol public information officer Greg Perkins.
Two of the loaded handguns were later determined to be stolen, Perkins added.
As of Wednesday morning, Feb. 10, Loynachan was still listed as an inmate at the Siskiyou County Jail in Yreka on several drug and weapons-related charges. The amount of his bail was not listed.