Authorities serve search warrants in California boat fire probe

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By Darryl Coote | UPI |

Authorities said they expect search operations to resume on Monday for the final body yet to be retrieved from the boat. Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office/Twitter

(UPI) — Investigators executed search warrants on the headquarters of a Southern California company that owned a scuba diving boat that caught on fire last week, killing 34 people.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Eric Raney said investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and other agencies served the warrants before 9 a.m. Sunday at Truth Aquatics’ offices in Santa Barbara and at its two other boats.

The warrants are part of an ongoing investigation into last Monday’s tragedy to determine if any crime was committed, Raney said, describing their execution as “pretty standard.”

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Joel Cholo Brooks is a Liberian journalist who previously worked for several international news outlets including the BBC African Service. He is the CEO of the Global News Network which publishes two local weeklies, The Star and The GNN-Liberia Newspapers. He is a member of the Press Union Of Liberia (PUL) since 1986, and several other international organizations of journalists, and is currently contributing to the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation as Liberia Correspondent.

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