This aerial picture from video supplied by KTLA exhibits regulation enforcement autos the place a number of individuals have been discovered shot to demise in El Mirage, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024.

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This aerial picture from video supplied by KTLA exhibits regulation enforcement autos the place a number of individuals have been discovered shot to demise in El Mirage, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024.

KTLA/by way of AP

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Five males have been arrested within the investigation surrounding six bodies found last week at a distant filth crossroads within the Southern California desert in a dispute over marijuana, sheriff’s officers stated Monday.

Authorities found the our bodies within the Mojave Desert exterior El Mirage after somebody referred to as 911 and stated he had been shot, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Sgt. Michael Warrick stated. Five our bodies have been discovered late Tuesday and a sixth the next morning.

Five suspects have been arrested after deputies served search warrants Sunday, Warrick stated at a information convention.

“We are confident that this appears to be a dispute over marijuana,” he stated.

The space, some 50 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is so distant that the sheriff’s division referred to as in assist from the California Highway Patrol’s Aviation Division to seek out the scene.

Overhead footage from TV stations final week confirmed a darkish blue SUV with a passenger window blown out and one other door open, with a part of the picture blurred. The footage additionally confirmed quite a few yellow proof markers within the scrubby desert.