Following National Announcement, FBI Los Angeles Shares Results of Violent Crime Initiative 'Operation Summer Heat,’ a Nationwide Initiative Targeting Violent Crime
October 28, 2025 - The FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office made numerous arrests over a period of approximately three summer months as part of Operation Summer Heat, the FBI’s nationwide effort to combat violent crime.
Under the Summer Heat initiative in the seven counties that comprise the Central District of California, 146 arrests were made related to violent crimes. In addition, 49 weapons were recovered, and 26 drug seizures occurred.
Between June 24 and September 20, all FBI field offices participated in the multi-pronged approach to target violent offenders. The FBI surged resources alongside state, local, and federal partners to execute warrants on violent criminals and fugitives, identify and rescue child victims, and dismantle violent gangs.
“The FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office operates numerous Safe Streets Task Forces within our seven-county area jurisdiction and enjoys strong relationships with federal partners and dozens of local police partners, all of whom worked with us during Operation Summer Heat to address violent crime in our communities,” said Akil Davis, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “Agents and task force officers in Los Angeles will continue to focus on all aspects of violent crime, whether that means gangs and organized criminal enterprises, dangerous fugitives, drug traffickers, or those who sexually exploit children.”
Some examples of violent crime operations during Operation Summer Heat include, but are not limited to, the following:
June:
- Nineteen members or associates of the Mexican Mafia prison gang were charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office following an investigation by the FBI’s San Gabriel Valley Safe Streets Task Force for their roles in a conspiracy to murder a well-known rapper for perceived infractions against the Mexican Mafia.
- The FBI’s Fugitive Task Force) located and apprehended Raymond Boodarian who was wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department for a murder allegedly committed during a home invasion robbery in Encino.
- Two San Bernardino County men, Xiang Li, 42, and Bowen Zhou, 33, were arrested and charged for their roles in an alleged stalking, threats, and intimidation campaign targeting victims in Yorba Linda, California.
- The FBI’s Fugitive Task Force located and arrested Kyle McNutt who was wanted in Michigan for the murder of his girlfriend and fled to Los Angeles. McNutt resisted arrest when confronted, detained a female and inflicted wounds in a suicide attempt. Task Force members treated him and affected the arrest without further incident.
July:
- A man who was seen on camera assaulting federal officers and property during a protest in June was arrested after having fled to Mexico. The man, Elpidio Reyna, 39, was charged with assaulting a federal officer in July.
- In support of immigration enforcement operations, FBI Agents arrested a Guatemalan national who was wanted for murder and had been smuggled into the United States. The man is believed to have been working for a drug cartel in Guatemala.
- A fugitive, Ricky Lewis, who fled after being sentenced to five years in prison for bank robberies in Gardena and Long Beach, and an attempt in Downey, was arrested by the FBI's Fugitive Task Force in El Monte.
- A Lancaster man, Gregory Cole, was arrested after absconding during trial where he was found guilty in absentia of producing and receiving sexually explicit images of a teenage girl whom he had enticed to engage in criminal sexual activity.
August:
- A Downey man, Dong Hwan Kim, 27, who is suspected to be a member of a nihilistic extremist group known as “764,” was arrested by the FBI for allegedly enticing minor females to produce and send him pictures and videos of themselves engaging in sexual acts, then threatening to post the material to their family members and others.
- A Guatemalan national, Miguel Angel Batz Jr., and former resident of the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles, was extradited from Guatemala on federal criminal charges alleging that he produced child sexual abuse material of five children.
- A minor boy who was taken to Mexico in violation of a custody order was located in Mexico City and reunited with his mother after an extensive investigation by the FBI working with Mexican authorities.
- During August alone, agents in multiple cities arrested nearly two dozen individuals for various crimes against children, including the possession and distribution of child pornography and enticement of a minor, among other violations.
- The FBI’s Fugitive Task Force located and arrested a man who was wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department for an alleged murder in Canoga Park in what appeared to be a random act of violence. The suspect had to be extracted from his residence by a S.W.A.T. Team after barricading himself.
September:
- In September, FBI agents and partners with U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement arrested a Mexican national who is alleged to have gang raped a child in Puebla, Mexico. During the arrest, he was found carrying a counterfeit social security card, a lawful permanent resident card, and a quantity of suspected crystal methamphetamine.
- In a case worked by the DEA, FBI, and partners on the Southern California Drug Task Force, five defendants were arrested on a 10-count federal superseding indictment alleging their participation in a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking organization that used luxury private shipping companies to ship more than 20,000 kilograms (22.1 tons) of cocaine and more than $100 million in drug proceeds between Los Angeles and New York City.
- The FBI’s Fugitive Task Force arrested a juvenile wanted for the murder of a woman in Los Angeles who was shot and killed near the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles.
- The FBI’s Fugitive Task Force with assistance from the California Highway Patrol arrested a man who was wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department for the murder of a female victim, who had been stabbed multiple times, who was found in a fire that appears to have been intentionally set.
Earlier this month, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the national figures resulting from Operation Summer Heat. The FBI and its law enforcement partners made 8,629 arrests across the country.
Of the 8,629 arrests, more than 6,500 fell under the FBI’s Violent Crime and Gang program. In addition, agents and intelligence professionals investigating violent crimes against children identified or located 1,053 victim children. Summer Heat operations also led to the seizure of 44,569 kilograms of cocaine, 421 kilograms of fentanyl, and 2,281 weapons.
The statistics cited above do not include the multitude of violent crime individuals who were convicted of violent crimes in the state and federal systems in the seven counties that make up the jurisdiction of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.
For more information about violent suspects wanted by the FBI, visit, fbi.gov.
FBI Los Angeles
Public Affairs Specialist Laura Eimiller
(310) 996-3343
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
