The Porterville Police Department and Tulare County Sheriff's Office ended their search for a suspicious armed man after they received a report of someone walking around with a gun.
The suspects range in age from 23 to 59, and they've all been booked into jail on various drug-related charges.
Investigators believe 19-year-old Jarod Martinez stabbed a 44-year-old man to death on Wednesday near Morton Avenue and Highway 65.
Porterville police say alcohol played a role in a crash that sent four people to the hospital on Friday night.
A suspected thief was found carrying several grams of methamphetamine in Porterville over the weekend, police say.
The high school boy confessed to sending out texts to 5 others in which he made death threats directly to each of the victims, identifying them by name.
