A husband and wife who run an Inland Empire religious group have been arrested and automatic weapons and ghost guns seized by Redlands Police as they investigate how a former follower disappeared two years ago under suspicious circumstances.

Emilio Ghanem disappeared in May 2023 shortly after he left the Hemet-based “His Way Spirit Led Assemblies” and started a rival pest control company to the one run by the religious group leaders. Authorities are also searching for a second man associated with the group who vanished in 2017.

Ghanem, 40, was reported missing shortly after he visited a Starbucks in Redlands, where he was meant to meet someone, according to police. A rented Nissan Frontier pickup, which he was driving that day, was spotted on surveillance video sometime after the same da

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