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Article: San Leandro man gunned down at mall was pot grower
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 15, 2008
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SAN LEANDRO _ Homicide investigators have determined that a San
Leandro man shot to death last week outside a neighborhood mall was
an illegal-marijuana grower, but it is not clear whether that led to
his death, according to authorities.
Ernest Ray Sauceda, 25, was killed in what police initially
thought was a botched carjacking at about 11:30 a.m. April 7 outside
Washington Plaza, on East 14th Street and Estudillo Avenue.
While investigating, police found 250 marijuana plants, 8 pounds
of finished product and $4,000 in cash in Sauceda's home on the 500
block of Dowling Boulevard, Lt. Tom Overton said Tuesday.
Witnesses told authorities that Sauceda's killer leaped through
the passenger ...