Salinas police investigating local connection to children found dead in Redding storage facility.

Monterey County authorities are looking into a local connection to a gruesome case involving the discovery of two dead children inside a storage locker in Northern California.

The two children have not yet been identified, but 17-year-old Gonzalo Curiel and 39-year-old Tami Joy Huntsman—recent residents of Salinas—have been arrested in connection to the murders.

Salinas police combed through the couple's house in Salinas, in the 500 block of Fremont Street near North Madeira Avenue, on Monday night. It is not yet known how long the couple lived at that house.

Monterey County Assistant District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni said the office was at the very early stages of an investigation. She said the case involved two dead children and a third, who was abused and in critical condition.

Chief Assistant District Attorney Berkley Brannon said the bodies were discovered in a storage unit in Redding. He refused to give further comment.

One source said the bodies were discovered this morning.

Huntsman is the sister of the Santa Cruz man who set a blaze that grew into the King City Fire last year. When talking to media, Huntsman said her brother would never do anything to intentionally start the fire. 

Word of the killing first broke on a Facebook page for a neighborhood watch group in Salinas; the poster said the killings were reported to have happened in East Salinas, where the couple's house is located and being searched by police.

Salinas Police Chief Kelly McMillin says the incident didn’t take place in Salinas and declined all further comment, adding that Salinas PD was not the lead agency in the investigation. The police department is working in conjunction with the Redding Police Department and the Plumas County Sheriff's Office, where the couple is booked in jail.

In a press release sent out by Redding PD it says Curiel and Huntsman were booked into jail on charges of torture, felony child abuse and mayhem.

Redding PD requested a letter from the Weekly in order to release information about the case. They have not returned calls for comment yet.