"Authorities have executed search warrants on properties associated with a powerful Imperial Valley farming magnate whose wife was found shot and killed in her Arizona home last month. Detectives with the Navajo County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday served warrants on the El Centro, Calif., home of Mike Abatti, as well as multiple structures and properties associated with Abatti's family and their business operations, the sheriff's office said in a news release."
""These warrants were obtained and executed based on the results of the ongoing homicide investigation and evidence developed by detectives," the release said. It did not state what evidence investigators were seeking or if they recovered anything. Authorities declined to answer follow-up questions. Abatti's wife, Kerri Ann Abatti, 59, was found fatally shot inside her home in Pinetop, Ariz., on Nov. 20 in what investigators have confirmed to be a homicide."
Detectives executed search warrants on the El Centro home of Mike Abatti and multiple structures, camp trailers and vehicles linked to his family and business operations. Warrants were obtained based on evidence developed during the ongoing homicide investigation; authorities did not disclose what was sought or recovered. Kerri Ann Abatti, 59, was found shot inside her Pinetop, Arizona, home on Nov. 20, and investigators have confirmed the death as a homicide; no arrests have been announced. She had been living separately amid divorce proceedings begun in October 2023 and had sought substantial spousal support. The Abatti family operates major Imperial Valley farms producing onions, cantaloupes, broccoli, lettuce, sugarbeets and hay.
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