Four Mendocino County teenagers were arrested recently for allegedly robbing a business at gunpoint, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office reported.
According to the MCSO, deputies were informed around 9:30 p.m. May 20 that a business in Cloverdale, located just south of Mendocino County on Highway 101, had just been robbed by suspects believed to be Mendocino County residents who were heading back there.
The MCSO was informed by the Cloverdale Police Department that the four suspects were “armed with semiautomatic handguns with extended magazines, and had fired multiple shots at an eyewitness who was trying to alert the clerk inside the business that she was about to be robbed.”
After receiving information about the suspects’ possible whereabouts, MCSO deputies went to a home in the 20000 block of Highway 128 in Yorkville and located a vehicle associated with the robbery suspects.
A search warrant for the residence was then obtained by the Cloverdale Police Department and served by the Mendocino County Multi-Agency SWAT Team, which reportedly “established a perimeter around the residence and … used verbal commands to get 10 individuals, two adults and eight juveniles, to peacefully exit the residence where they were detained.”
When the home was then searched by law enforcement, “evidence was located in connection with the reported armed robbery, (as well as) a stolen firearm from a recent reported burglary in the Anderson Valley area.” That case is being investigated by the MCSO.
Due to the evidence found at the residence, four people were arrested in connection with the armed robbery by the Cloverdale Police Department: Angel Marron, 18, of Yorkville; two 16-year-old boys from Yorkville, and a 17-year-old boy from Philo.
The suspects were transported to Sonoma County for booking.
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