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Home of Deadly Fire Searched
By: Grace White
The group home where four special needs adults died is under scrutiny again. Tuesday, city investigators served and conducted a search warrant at the home on West Norwood off San Pedro in central San Antonio.
Officials say the front door was the only way in and out of that home, and that's the area where the fire started last week.
City investigators went inside the home Tuesday looking for code violations, health hazards, and anything that could shed light on why four people died in this fire.
The search warrant posted on the front door says serious code violations had occurred and investigators were back for more evidence.
Neighbors say they saw work crews here Tuesday afternoon who said they were with the city boarding up the door and windows on the first floor.
One of those neighbors let us get a look at the property from his backyard. That neighbor says his house and the house in question were designed the same way. The neighbor has a back stairwell and the house where the fire happened does not.
Neighbors say they saw code compliance officers here about a year ago inspecting all these additions, but they worry no one ever followed up.
Neighbor Blaine Russell said, "These are our fellow citizens and even though they are mentally ill they deserve good care, a safe home and it should not have happened to them because they are our fellow citizens."
The search warrant says city investigators will be back in court within three days to present all the evidence they gathered here to a judge.
We stopped by the landlord's house next door but no one answered. We have calls into the city about all this, but as of Tuesday night we had not heard back.
By: Grace White
The group home where four special needs adults died is under scrutiny again. Tuesday, city investigators served and conducted a search warrant at the home on West Norwood off San Pedro in central San Antonio.
Officials say the front door was the only way in and out of that home, and that's the area where the fire started last week.
City investigators went inside the home Tuesday looking for code violations, health hazards, and anything that could shed light on why four people died in this fire.
The search warrant posted on the front door says serious code violations had occurred and investigators were back for more evidence.
Neighbors say they saw work crews here Tuesday afternoon who said they were with the city boarding up the door and windows on the first floor.
One of those neighbors let us get a look at the property from his backyard. That neighbor says his house and the house in question were designed the same way. The neighbor has a back stairwell and the house where the fire happened does not.
Neighbors say they saw code compliance officers here about a year ago inspecting all these additions, but they worry no one ever followed up.
Neighbor Blaine Russell said, "These are our fellow citizens and even though they are mentally ill they deserve good care, a safe home and it should not have happened to them because they are our fellow citizens."
The search warrant says city investigators will be back in court within three days to present all the evidence they gathered here to a judge.
We stopped by the landlord's house next door but no one answered. We have calls into the city about all this, but as of Tuesday night we had not heard back.
TEXAS NEWS
Man linked to Mexican cartel gets 16 years
May 24, 2013 13:07 GMT
McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- Prosecutors say a man who helped get loads of cocaine moved from Mexico to Texas has been sentenced to 16 years in a U.S. prison.
A federal judge in McAllen on Thursday sentenced Juan Oscar Garza-Alanis. He pleaded guilty in October 2011 to drug conspiracy and money laundering counts. His brother and his sister also pleaded guilty to those counts in what prosecutors say was a drug trafficking ring linked to Mexico's Gulf cartel.
Cantalicia Garza was sentenced Thursday to more than five years in a U.S. prison. Prosecutors say she had an accounting role in the drug ring. Josue Ruperto Garza awaits sentencing.
The three siblings were arrested in Reynosa, Mexico, in 2007. They were extradited to the U.S. the following year.
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