Angel Omar Zuniga Soriano, 18, of Buena, Yakima County, Washington, United States is a convicted felon. He is a documented Sureño gang member.
Founded in California, USA in 1967, Sureño gangs pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia. The groups are loosely affiliated and many of them have rivalries with one another.
Angel Omar Zuniga
In 2022, Zuniga was involved in a shooting incident. He was convicted of second-degree assault and three counts of first-degree assault in Yakima County Juvenile Court in Yakima, Yakima County.
On June 29, 2024, Zuniga carried a Glock 22 .40-caliber pistol while driving a Chevrolet Malibu in Toppenish, Yakima County. Earlier that day, the vehicle was used in a robbery in Wapato, Yakima County.
When a Toppenish Police Department officer tried to stop the car, it took off at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour going from Toppenish, Yakima County to Granger, Yakima County on Interstate 82 and then back to Zillah, Yakima County. A Zillah Police Department officer was going to deploy spikes when he heard gunshots from the car.
Zuniga allegedly used his Glock pistol to fire at the Yakima Sheriff’s Office deputies and other police officers were chasing him. The chase ended in Zillah where a male Toppenish Police Department sergeant used his car to ram the car Zuniga was driving.
Before Zuniga was arrested, he ran and threw the pistol over a fence. A detective who examined the pistol determined that it was modified to be a fully automatic firearm.
After Zuniga’s arrest, he told authorities he was a gang associate and not a gang member. Prior to the arrest, he already had two firearm convictions.
On April 22, 2025, U.S. District Judge Mary K. Dimke sentenced Zuniga to 144 months in prison on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and imposed three years of supervised release. The judge was born in Clarkston, Asotin County, Washington, which is around 191 miles away from Buena.
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