FBI Raid Footage Emerges: Inside the 2022 Investigation of Gabbie Gonzalez

When federal agents showed up at Gabbie Gonzalez’s Hawaii home in November 2022, her then-husband Cody Clayburn was left standing in the driveway, watching them tear through their life. Now, nearly four years later, newly released footage and documents reveal just how serious that raid really was—and how long it took for the investigation to finally catch fire.

The November 16, 2022 search was connected to an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting Jack Avery. Agents seized a MacBook, multiple iPhones, SD cards, and thumb drives—the kind of digital dragnet that signals investigators thought they’d find smoking-gun evidence on those devices. A U.S. magistrate judge in Honolulu signed off on the warrant, meaning federal authorities had established probable cause to believe something very wrong was happening inside that home. Cody tells the story of finding out secondhand: Gabbie gave him what he calls“a diluted version of what happened,”and he spent months learning the full scope of the allegations piece by piece. That’s a telling detail—the kind of fractured household communication that happens when one person is under federal investigation and the other is scrambling to understand why.

What’s remarkable is how slow the wheels turned. Despite that aggressive 2022 raid, federal investigators apparently didn’t gather enough evidence to make arrests. So in 2025—a full three years after seizing those devices—the frustrated lead investigator handed the case off to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. That’s significant. When the Feds step back and pass the baton, it usually means they hit a wall: unclear evidence, uncooperative witnesses, or a case that just wasn’t airtight enough for prosecution.

But then everything shifted. Last week, Gabbie Gonzalez was arrested in Humboldt County, California while boarding a flight. Her bail was set at 2 million dollars. That same week, her father, Francisco, was arrested in Florida on the same charge. The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department had done what the FBI couldn’t.

The kicker? Cody posted a single word to Instagram after the arrests hit the news: Karma. It’s a small detail, but it speaks volumes. A man who once stood outside his home watching federal agents cart away their electronics, confused and in the dark, finally seeing a narrative close. Whether that closure brings peace or just settles a score is another question entirely.