NORTH COAST, Calif. – The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said it has taken a total of seven suspects into custody in connection to home invasion robberies that occurred on Monday in Petaluma.
Shortly after 3 a.m. Monday three residences in the 100 and 200 block of Eugenia Drive in Petaluma were robbed at gunpoint by black men looking for marijuana, according to Sgt. Spencer Crum.
Crum said homeowners in the residences were tied up and one was pistol-whipped, but none of the occupants were seriously injured. He added that none of the residences had anything to do with the cultivation or sales of marijuana.
Officers from the Petaluma Police Department spotted the suspects’ vehicles, a white minivan and a silver Volkswagen Passat leaving the area. When they attempted a traffic stop, the suspects led them on a vehicle pursuit to Novato, Crum said.
Crum said the white minivan stopped on the side of the freeway near the San Marin exit. Five black men fled the car.
One of the men was apprehended a short distance away after knocking on the front door of a homeowner asking to call an Uber. This suspect was identified as Ledarrell Javon Crockett, 28. Of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Crum said.
At the Novato Costco, the Volkswagen Passat was located and three more men were taken into custody but a woman escaped before officers arrived, Crum said. The suspects were identified as Chrisshawn Denardray Beal, 20, and Jaray Day-Shawn Simmons, 28, both of Winston-Salem; and Melvin Corbin, 19, of Richmond, Va.
Crum said that at around 7 p.m. Monday three more men were arrested at San Francisco Airport as they were trying to board a flight back to the East Coast. These suspects were identified as 22-year-old Nakia Robert Lydell Jones, 20-year-old Romello Shamar Jones and 21-year-old Siddiq Jafar Abdullah, all from Richmond, Va.
All seven men have been booked into the Sonoma County Jail on charges of robbery of an inhabited dwelling, burglary, false imprisonment, kidnapping and conspiracy. They all being held on $1 million dollar bail with the exception of Beal, who has a no bail warrant out of North Carolina, Crum said.
Crum said two more suspects, a black woman and a black man, are outstanding and are still being sought by sheriff’s detectives.
Seven East Coast residents arrested for Monday Sonoma County home invasion robberies
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