LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A San Francisco man wanted in connection to the June home invasion robbery of a Clearlake Oaks family has been arrested.
Dexter Lee Currington, 22, was arrested on two counts of attempted murder for his alleged part in the June 26 robbery at the home of Ronnie and Janeane Bogner.
Currington was booked into the Lake County Jail on Tuesday night. His bail is set at $1 million.
District Attorney Don Anderson said authorities had been trying to get Currington to turn himself in, but he wouldn't do it.
“San Francisco Police Department arrested him based on our warrant,” Anderson said.
Currington is the fifth – and final – suspect to be arrested in the case.
The same day as the robbery, four others were arrested – Sean Douglas Foss, 20, and Tyler Christopher Gallon, 18, both of Clearlake, and San Franciscans Dion Andre Davis II, 26, and Jenaya Drevelyn Jelinek, 22.
At their June arraignment the first four suspects arrested were charged with the attempted murder of the Bogners' adult son Jacob, robbery, burglary of an inhabited residence, assault with a firearm, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, grand theft of a firearm, and conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary.
Authorities have identified Davis as the alleged gunman and additionally charged him with personal use of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, mayhem, negligent discharge of a firearm and a felon in possession of a firearm.
Davis, Gallon and Foss also were charged with assault with a semiautomatic weapon and the attempted murder of a peace officer, specifically, Lt. Tim Celli of the Clearlake Police Department, as well as using threats of violence to deter an officer from doing their duties, vehicle theft and vandalism. Jelinek is charged with being an accessory after the fact.
In July, the four entered not guilty pleas to the charges as originally filed, as Lake County News has reported.
The suspects are alleged to have forced their way into the Bogners' home, shot Jacob Bogner in the leg and pistol-whipped him, and took handguns and a Cadillac Escalade, later ditching the totaled vehicle in the Clearlake Oaks area.
Davis, Foss, Gallon and Jelinek fled the scene and encountered Clearlake Police Chief Craig Clausen and Celli, who had been out looking for the suspect vehicle in the city limits, with all but Jelinek fleeing into a nearby home after allegedly shooting at Celli.
Jelinek was taken into custody first, with the other three taken into custody later in the day with the help of the county's SWAT team.
Janeane Bogner had reported that the first suspect who had tried to break down her door was a man with dreadlocks, whose hoodie she had pulled back.
The first suspects taken into custody didn't match that description. However, Ronnie Bogner said his wife recognized Currington as that suspect wearing the hoodie, although he no longer has dreadlocks, based on his Tuesday booking photo.
Anderson said Currington is due to be arraigned Thursday by a visiting judge.
He said all of the local superior court judges have recused themselves from the case because of their acquaintance with the Bogners, who own a business and are involved in a number of local organizations, with Janeane Bogner being president of the Lake County Fair Board.
During the last week of August, at Anderson's request, a criminal grand jury was impaneled to consider the charges against the suspects.
On Sept. 3, with retired Mendocino County Judge Galen Hathaway presiding, the grand jury returned an indictment on all of the suspects, including Currington, Anderson said.
The charges in the grand jury indictment were the same as those originally filed against all of the suspects, with some minor language changes, according to Anderson.
Anderson, who is personally handling the prosecution, said he pursued the grand jury route – one that reportedly hasn't been used in Lake County for a criminal case in well over a decade – because it streamlined and simplified a process that involves multiple defendants and attorneys.
“It eliminates a lot of delays,” he said.
It also offers some secrecy and protection of case information early on; normally most information submitted for a case immediately becomes public when filed as part of the court record. Anderson expects all of the case documents to be made public within the next two weeks.
In addition, the grand jury indictment eliminates the preliminary hearing process, said Anderson.
The case is set for Oct. 11 for further arraignment, he said.
Anderson said that at that point, it's expected the defendants will enter their pleas in response to the indictment and the court will set a trial date.
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