Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during SoCal immigration raid, family says

CAMARILLO, Calif. -- Concerned household members are hopeless for answers aft they accidental a disabled U.S. seasoned and national was taken during a federal migration raid astatine a cannabis workplace successful Camarillo, California.

George Retes, 25, works arsenic a information defender astatine Glass House Farms, wherever the raid took spot Thursday. His sister and woman told our sister station, ABC7 Eyewitness News successful Los Angeles, that helium was trying to permission the country arsenic tensions escalated betwixt national agents and protesters.

They accidental they saw AIR7 footage of the country and were capable to spot his achromatic vehicle.

"ICE thought helium was astir apt portion of the protest, but helium wasn't, helium was trying to reverse his car," said his sister, Destinee Majana. "They broke his window, they pepper-sprayed him, they grabbed him, threw him connected the floor. They detained him."

Retes' sister and woman person been trying to telephone anybody she tin to find retired wherever helium was taken, but they accidental cipher tin archer them wherever helium is.

"We don't cognize what to do, we're conscionable asking to fto my member go. He's a U.S. citizen. He didn't bash thing wrong. He's a veteran, disabled citizen. It says it connected his car," Majana added.

His wife, Guadalupe Torres, said she hasn't seen oregon spoken to him since Thursday.

"I conscionable don't cognize wherever he's at. I've been up since 6 a.m. trying to telephone the sheriff's, the constabulary department, Oxnard, Camarillo, Ventura... They accidental they don't know," she said.

His woman added that his daughter's day enactment was scheduled for Saturday, lone making the hunt for him much urgent.

They were among different families who returned to the cannabis workplace Friday to hunt for missing loved ones, immoderate of whom hid from authorities overnight.