The Alameda County District Legal professional’s Workplace charged a 22-year-old Hayward parolee late final month with elder abuse and theft expenses in reference to a 2020 assault, authorities mentioned.
In a press release Thursday, Fremont police mentioned a 75-year-old man went to a Newark financial institution July 6, 2020, the place three suspects in a white Chrysler 300 watched him get cash earlier than strolling again to his personal car.
In line with charging paperwork obtained from the district legal professional’s workplace, the suspects adopted the person to his Fremont residence, the place two acquired out of the Chrysler and beat him up earlier than taking $1,500 in money, a Samsung cellular phone and a $600 gold ring and driving away.
Officers who responded to the assault discovered footage on city-owned surveillance cameras of the sufferer’s automotive driving eastbound alongside Stevenson Boulevard from Interstate 880 being adopted by the Chrysler, in addition to footage from a digicam outdoors the financial institution of the Chrysler following the sufferer’s automotive.
After studying that one of many two attackers had touched the sufferer’s shirt, officers collected it for detectives, who despatched it to San Mateo County’s forensic laboratory. Quickly after, a lab criminalist discovered a DNA pattern with lower than a 1 in 350 billion probability of belonging to somebody aside from the Hayward parolee. The sufferer informed investigators he didn’t know the parolee, had solely gone to the financial institution and again residence that day and mentioned his shirt had been clear and washed earlier than he put it on.
After officers arrested the parolee, who had prior arrests on suspicion of a minimum of two Union Metropolis financial institution parking-lot robberies, on April 6, the district legal professional’s workplace charged him April 27 with felony theft and elder abuse. He was listed in custody Thursday at Santa Rita Jail on a minimum of $585,000 bail and going through a number of hearings Monday at Oakland’s Rene Davidson courthouse, in line with a county data examine.
Anybody with info on this or different presumably associated incidents could name Fremont police Det. Jared Madsen at 510-790-6932 or electronic mail JMadsen@fremont.gov, or ship nameless ideas by visiting https://native.nixle.com/tip/alert/5788118 or texting TIP FREMONTPD adopted by a brief message to 888777.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.