Search warrants served on farming mogul whose wife was found slain

Authorities have executed search warrants on properties associated with an Imperial Valley farming magnate whose wife was found shot and killed in her Arizona home last month.

- BY ALEX WIGGLESWORTH

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. Abatti and his family members run some of the largest farming operations in the Imperial Valley, growing onions, cantaloupes, broccoli, lettuce, sugar beets and hay, according to the website of Mike Abatti Farms.

Investigators also served warrants on two camp trailers and two vehicles belonging to the Abatti family, the release said.