WALNUT CREEK — Two individuals had been arrested Thursday following the tried armed theft of an individual’s Rolex watch, police stated, the newest in a string of comparable robberies in prosperous Contra Costa County neighborhoods.
The most recent incident additionally concerned a automobile crash throughout an tried getaway, police stated. Officers lastly arrested the 2 after they dashed into a close-by neighborhood and hopped fences.
Each males are of their 30s and are from Richmond, police stated. They had been arrested on suspicion of theft; two counts of assault with a lethal weapon — one being a gun, the opposite a car — being a felon in possession of a gun; and conspiracy, authorities stated.
The drama unfolded about 4 p.m. In an announcement, police spokeswoman Lt. Holley Connors stated police had been knowledgeable that an individual was bleeding within the parking zone of Ygnacio Plaza within the 1800 block of Ygnacio Valley Street after an tried theft of the person’s Rolex watch.
Witnesses instructed police that two mask-wearing males each pistol-whipped the individual over the pinnacle earlier than fleeing in a black Honda sedan.
The sedan crashed at Bancroft Street and La Corso Circle, a couple of half-mile away. Connors stated police obtained assist from a Contra Costa Sheriff’s Workplace helicopter and witnesses earlier than detaining the 2 males with out incident on Prepared Street.
The theft got here a couple of month after Walnut Creek put out an advisory about three related crimes of their metropolis earlier this 12 months during which the suspects took high-end jewellery.
Related robberies even have occurred in Danville, together with one Aug. 6. In that one, three individuals robbed a person of his watch as he walked to his automobile from a store within the Livery Buying Middle on the 200 block of Sycamore Valley Street. The suspects hit that sufferer with a gun and a shot was fired, police stated.
No arrests had been made in that one or in a June theft during which a couple of individual adopted a gaggle of 4 individuals who had pushed to a house and parked on Hartz Street. In response to police, the suspects robbed the group of jewellery and watches, and exchanged gunfire with one individual within the group.
In July, three individuals had been arrested after robbing an individual of a Rolex outdoors a Danville Dealer Joe’s on Railroad Avenue. That theft led to a chase that resulted in Antioch, and the arrest of an 18-year-old San Jose man, police stated.
Danville Police Chief Allan Shields stated through e mail Thursday after that police wouldn't remark about whether or not the suspects arrested Thursday had been linked to the earlier robberies.
Connors didn't say whether or not the one who was attacked Thursday in Walnut Creek wanted to be hospitalized.
Police inspired anybody with anymore info to contact Walnut Creek police at 925-943-5844.