Arrests span from Glendale to Fontana in connection with LA-area home robbery spree, homicide

LOS ANGELES — Three men look execution and robbery charges and a 4th faces a robbery complaint successful transportation with a spate of follow-home robberies that person plagued the metropolis successful caller weeks, constabulary said Friday, Dec. 24.

A Los Angeles Police Department task unit connected follow-home robberies, with assistance from an LAPD SWAT portion and Beverly Hills, Glendale and Fontana police, made the arrests connected Dec. 21 successful assorted locations successful Los Angeles and Fontana.

The suspects were Jayon Sanders, 21, Abraham Castillo, 20, Tyree Singleton, 20, and Joshua Saulsberry, 21.

Sanders, Castilllo and Singleton person each been charged with murder, robbery and attempted robbery. Saulsberry is charged with robbery.

Sanders is being held connected $2.49 cardinal bail, Castillo and Singleton connected $2.05 cardinal bail, and Saulsberry connected $160,000 bail, according to the LAPD.

Detectives recovered a handgun, a replica handgun, much than $30,000 successful cash, handbags, a Rolex watch, pack paraphernalia and 2 vehicles allegedly utilized successful the crimes, constabulary said.

The execution progressive a antheral who was changeable astatine edifice successful the 7100 artifact of Sunset Boulevard connected Nov. 23, LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman told City News Service.

The unfortunate was Jose Ruiz Gutierrez, 23. He was waiting successful a car extracurricular Bossa Nova edifice successful the 7100 artifact Sunset Boulevard astatine astir 2 a.m. that time erstwhile a pistillate helium was with stepped retired and was accosted by a radical of men who tried to rob her, constabulary told the Los Angeles Times.

Gutierrez, who was carrying a gun, got retired of the car to intervene and the suspects allegedly changeable him to decease and fled, according to the report.

Hours aft the crime, LAPD Chief Michel Moore announced that the bureau would make a task unit to analyse “follow-home robberies,” which person accrued successful frequence successful caller weeks.

Moore said the section had identified 133 apt instances of specified crimes. The heists impact robbers who travel radical wearing high-end jewelry oregon person costly vehicles oregon different belongings.

Moore said Gutierrez was “coming to the assistance of a pistillate who was being attacked” erstwhile helium was killed.

The Robbery Homicide Follow-Home Robbery Task Force includes robbery homicide detectives and resources from the LAPD’s Gang Narcotics Division and Metropolitan Division.

“They’ll enactment moving guardant connected identifying these individuals liable and pursuing and bringing them earlier the transgression justness system,” Moore said.

“The interaction this is having connected the consciousness of community, of safety, is profound,” helium added.

Moore added that radical should not effort to support their spot erstwhile confronted with robbers.

“There’s nary point of jewelry oregon portion of spot that they person that is worthy their life, and truthful if they find themselves successful specified a perilous situation, to cooperate, beryllium a bully witness. … Do not pursuit people, bash not effort to prosecute radical and bash not effort to instrumentality actions yourself different than to minimize the accidental that you go a unfortunate of the benignant of unit we saw this morning,” helium said.

He added that if idiosyncratic notices they’re being followed, they should not thrust location and alternatively spell to a constabulary presumption and telephone 911.