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Cult-like California religious group at center of missing persons investigation

Authorities arrested two leaders of His Way Spirit Led Assemblies and seized illegal firearms during an investigation into multiple disappearances linked to internal disputes and business rivalry.

Summary by KTLA 5
Detectives in San Bernardino may have caught a break in a more than two-year-old missing persons case that they are now investigating as a possible homicide.   Emilio Ghanem, 40, vanished in May 2023 while on a trip to the Inland Empire. He was last seen at a Starbucks in Redlands.   At the center of the investigation into Ghanem’s disappearance and possible murder, according to the Redlands Police Department, is a Hemet-based religious group kn…

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KTLA 5 broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
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