Authorities are investigating a possible connection between two disappearances involving former congregants of His Way Spirit Led Assemblies. Emilio Salem Ghanem, 40, vanished from a Redlands Starbucks in 2023. Ruben Moreno disappeared from a house in Claremont six years earlier. His Way Spirit Led Assemblies began in Rialto in 2010 and now operates out of Hemet. Redlands police searched a Pleasant Street home in Hemet on Aug. 6, 2025, and seized evidence. Neighbors reported tents in the backyard and groups of people after midnight. Colton police reopened the 2010 death investigation of 4-year-old Timothy Thomas after new clues emerged.
Authorities are now trying to determine if there could be a link between Ghanem's disappearance from a Redlands Starbucks and Moreno's disappearance from a house in Claremont six years earlier. The men shared one major thing in common: Both were members of a cult-like religious organization called His Way Spirit Led Assemblies, which began in Rialto in 2010 and now operates out of Hemet.
Tents can be seen in the backyard of this home on Pleasant Street in Hemet that Redlands police searched on Aug. 6, 2025. Neighbors said they have seen a dozen people in the backyard after midnight at the home used by a religious organization under investigation in the disappearances of former church members Emilio Ghanem and Ruben Moreno. (Brian Rokos, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
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