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Police capture alleged robbers


Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 9:02 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 4:53 p.m.

With a tip from an Agua Caliente resident, Sonoma police nabbed two teenagers less than an hour after they allegedly robbed at gunpoint the recycling center behind the Safeway store in Sonoma.

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Police said the two teens robbed three people at the recycling center behind the West Napa Street grocery store shortly before 4 p.m. The victims said the two teens, a white male and a Latino male, demanded money from them, warning them that they also had a machine gun.

The suspects then fled north on Fifth Street West in a black sports car that had its license plate bent up to avoid detection, said Sonoma Police Sgt. Dave Thompson.

Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies and the sheriff’s helicopter were called in to join the search.

Then at 4:25 p.m., a resident of the El Portola neighborhood in Agua Caliente reported he had seen two men in a black Mitsubishi Eclipse who appeared to be hiding out in the area. The El Portola resident told police the car’s license plate was bent up.

“That’s when we scrambled to that area,” said Thompson.

As patrol cars arrived, the Mitsubishi “scooted out” the back end of the neighborhood, he said. A deputy pursued the car on Highway 12 and during the chase, a handgun was seen thrown from the car near Nuns Canyon Road on Highway 12. The two men then pulled over just east of Dunbar Road and were soon arrested.

Traffic was blocked during the arrest. A person waiting in traffic spotted the gun, picked it up and handed it to deputies in the area, Thompson said.

The two teenagers, Ramon Llamas, 19, of Napa and a 16-year-old boy, also of Napa, were arrested and turned over to Sheriff’s detectives from the Violent Crimes Unit for further investigation.


Comments

  1. scottrosner says...
    July 19, 2008 10:29:01 am

    RE: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080719/NEWS/169173916

    Lets hope they add on contributing to the delinquncy of a minor to Llamas' charges...

  2. ray_mathews43 says...
    July 19, 2008 11:04:22 am

    Just trying to make a better life for themselves and their families...

  3. crossride says...
    July 19, 2008 11:28:13 am

    Behind the Safeway store? Drug deal gone bad?

  4. ifuc1killit says...
    July 19, 2008 12:43:09 pm

    come on ! they went to ague caliente to get cash?

  5. paschutt says...
    July 19, 2008 1:49:05 pm

    I love how the anti-latino posters always fail to read the complete articles, or only pull out the latino name, there was a white kid robbing this store as well.

  6. nickatina27 says...
    July 19, 2008 3:55:57 pm

    paschutt you have to do better than that to prove you're not a 100% fool. I missed the point where anybody robbed a store. Wake up idiot

  7. curmar1 says...
    July 19, 2008 4:19:50 pm

    DUHHHH WHITE IS A DESCRIPTION THAT JUST HAPPENS TO FIT MANY HISPANICS AND "YOU KNOW IT". MY BROTHER IN LAW IS HISPANIC AND I CHALLENGE YOU TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HE AND I BY DESCRIPTION.
    ON THE OTHER HAND WE ARE NOT CROOKS WHICH BOTH OF THESE ARE AND MOST LIKELY NOT HERE LEGALLY ...DO YOU GET IT YET? YOU SEE THESE POSTERS THAT CALL ATTENTION THE LATINO COMMUNITY IN CASES LIKE THIS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE THAN HALF OF THE CRIME NOW AND LESS THAN 15 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION. HOWEVER THEY ARE MOSTLY REFERRING TO ILLEGALS FROM WHEREVER THEY COME. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT YOU AND OTHERS ARE SUPPORTING THE AGGRESSIVE EXPORTATION OF THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT OF THESE SOUTHERN NATIONS....DO YOU GET IT YET OR ARE YOU JUST STUPID? JUST WONDERING...MOSTLY RHETORICAL IF YOU MUST KNOW

    BUT I DO KNOW THIS; IF THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY THAT WANT TO BE AMERICAN CONDEMN THIS CRAP THEN AND ONLY THEN THE FINGER WILL BE POINTED ONLY AT THE ILLEGAL PORTION OF THE PROBLEM; IF THEY DO NOT AND IT CONTINUES IT IS ON YOUR AND THOSE WHO ALIBI THE ILLEGALITY WHAT HAPPENS AND HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT YOUR SO-CALLED COMMUNITY

  8. e988o says...
    July 19, 2008 6:12:58 pm

    How do we know if the 'alleged white male' was wearing a disguise, like maybe vaudeville whiteface makeup? You know that the majority of "eye witness" reports are wrong.

  9. ProMaZtuuR says...
    July 20, 2008 5:22:03 am

    You guys are all ignorant to addept the fact that one of the suspects happens to be white. im so sure that somebody wore white make up to disguise themselves. Im so sure.....

  10. ProMaZtuuR says...
    July 20, 2008 5:22:35 am

    Oops I mean accept

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