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LOS GATOS The man killed in a shootout of East Palo Alto Search continues for second gunman in a raid in the pot farm.
A gunman killed Friday in a shootout with authorities during a raid on a farm of marijuana in the hills of Los Gatos was identified Monday as 33-year old man East Palo Alto.
Armando Quintana Aguilar died at the beginning of shooting the morning that left one guard wounded when gunfire erupted in six Santa Clara shérif's deputies County and fish State and guardians game approached sprawling, 22,000 pot planting plant in the steep hills east of Lexington Reservoir.
Authorities said Monday that the first injury of an agent in the country 21 years of the state to fight against illegal marijuana cultivation during the summer growing season have highlighted the dangers faced by authorities, often cartels Mexican drug using armed guards and traps to protect millions of dollars in public crops wilderness.
Hampered by a crime scene which is a hike of 90 minutes from the nearest road, investigators are seeking the public's help to learn more about Aguilar and track down a second gunman who escaped and that would tend planting pot which stretched for over a mile.
The search for the fugitive gunman is relentless and will continue, said spokesman Terrance Helm deputy sheriff.
We're always trying to learn a lot about M. Aguilar and all associates he may have, said sheriff's Sgt Pedro Contreras VENTURE I say that M. Aguilar was probably nothing more than a worker there to develop and protect the culture, it was probably not the main person.
Meanwhile, the warden of the state Kyle Kroll 25, was recovering at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center with a bullet that pierced both legs.
He is in good spirits, said Ministry of Fisheries and spokesperson of the game Steve Martarano He's had a hard time not to be mobile for a few days, it's been a difficult situation all around for the ministry because this is the first goalkeeper to be shot since 1979.
A suspect was killed in eradicating marijuana raids in each of the last two years, and the agents were shot at - but never hit until the shooting Friday.
The suspect died he had two weapons on him, a 38 caliber revolver and a shotgun, said Bob Cooke special agent in charge of the California Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotic enforcement office in San Jose.
Contreras said the plantation was not only equipped with a sophisticated system of drip irrigation, but also hiding places camouflaged with brush other weapons were found at the scene, said Helm, but he wouldn t specify their number or type.
There was certainly more than two suspects in this grove, Cooke said there had to be a number of them This grove was too big for two guys to handle.
During a raid in July on a pot farm in Castle Rock State Park in the hills above Saratoga, authorities discovered almost 2,000 plants - with a 22-gauge shotgun and handgun ammunition.
To protect the agents of the drug growers armed and dangerous terrain in which they operate, agents in school survival and tracking and practice for worse, Cooke said they are also trying to develop intelligence before an operation on how producers enter and leave the farm.
We continuously improve the safety skills of officers and practice whenever we go out, he said that we were rehearsing for this, and we move slowly, and we try to go with a number sufficient to dissuade producers from attacking officers, he added.
LOS GATOS, Gatos, East Palo Alto.