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NORTH COAST, Calif. – The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said it has taken a total of seven suspects into custody in connection to home invasion robberies that occurred on Monday in Petaluma.
Shortly after 3 a.m. Monday three residences in the 100 and 200 block of Eugenia Drive in Petaluma were robbed at gunpoint by black men looking for marijuana, according to Sgt. Spencer Crum.
Crum said homeowners in the residences were tied up and one was pistol-whipped, but none of the occupants were seriously injured. He added that none of the residences had anything to do with the cultivation or sales of marijuana.
Officers from the Petaluma Police Department spotted the suspects’ vehicles, a white minivan and a silver Volkswagen Passat leaving the area. When they attempted a traffic stop, the suspects led them on a vehicle pursuit to Novato, Crum said.
Crum said the white minivan stopped on the side of the freeway near the San Marin exit. Five black men fled the car.
One of the men was apprehended a short distance away after knocking on the front door of a homeowner asking to call an Uber. This suspect was identified as Ledarrell Javon Crockett, 28. Of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Crum said.
At the Novato Costco, the Volkswagen Passat was located and three more men were taken into custody but a woman escaped before officers arrived, Crum said. The suspects were identified as Chrisshawn Denardray Beal, 20, and Jaray Day-Shawn Simmons, 28, both of Winston-Salem; and Melvin Corbin, 19, of Richmond, Va.
Crum said that at around 7 p.m. Monday three more men were arrested at San Francisco Airport as they were trying to board a flight back to the East Coast. These suspects were identified as 22-year-old Nakia Robert Lydell Jones, 20-year-old Romello Shamar Jones and 21-year-old Siddiq Jafar Abdullah, all from Richmond, Va.
All seven men have been booked into the Sonoma County Jail on charges of robbery of an inhabited dwelling, burglary, false imprisonment, kidnapping and conspiracy. They all being held on $1 million dollar bail with the exception of Beal, who has a no bail warrant out of North Carolina, Crum said.
Crum said two more suspects, a black woman and a black man, are outstanding and are still being sought by sheriff’s detectives.
Shortly after 3 a.m. Monday three residences in the 100 and 200 block of Eugenia Drive in Petaluma were robbed at gunpoint by black men looking for marijuana, according to Sgt. Spencer Crum.
Crum said homeowners in the residences were tied up and one was pistol-whipped, but none of the occupants were seriously injured. He added that none of the residences had anything to do with the cultivation or sales of marijuana.
Officers from the Petaluma Police Department spotted the suspects’ vehicles, a white minivan and a silver Volkswagen Passat leaving the area. When they attempted a traffic stop, the suspects led them on a vehicle pursuit to Novato, Crum said.
Crum said the white minivan stopped on the side of the freeway near the San Marin exit. Five black men fled the car.
One of the men was apprehended a short distance away after knocking on the front door of a homeowner asking to call an Uber. This suspect was identified as Ledarrell Javon Crockett, 28. Of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Crum said.
At the Novato Costco, the Volkswagen Passat was located and three more men were taken into custody but a woman escaped before officers arrived, Crum said. The suspects were identified as Chrisshawn Denardray Beal, 20, and Jaray Day-Shawn Simmons, 28, both of Winston-Salem; and Melvin Corbin, 19, of Richmond, Va.
Crum said that at around 7 p.m. Monday three more men were arrested at San Francisco Airport as they were trying to board a flight back to the East Coast. These suspects were identified as 22-year-old Nakia Robert Lydell Jones, 20-year-old Romello Shamar Jones and 21-year-old Siddiq Jafar Abdullah, all from Richmond, Va.
All seven men have been booked into the Sonoma County Jail on charges of robbery of an inhabited dwelling, burglary, false imprisonment, kidnapping and conspiracy. They all being held on $1 million dollar bail with the exception of Beal, who has a no bail warrant out of North Carolina, Crum said.
Crum said two more suspects, a black woman and a black man, are outstanding and are still being sought by sheriff’s detectives.
NORTH COAST, Calif. – On Tuesday a San Jose man was sentenced to state prison for the attempted murder of a California Highway Patrol officer in south Willits in December 2016.
Ryan Joseph Maxstadt, 29, was sentenced by Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Ann Moorman to 38 years, eight months to life in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office.
The sentence results from convictions by jury of attempted murder of a CHP officer, assault with a firearm on a CHP officer, personal discharge of a firearm, felon in unlawful possession of a firearm and vehicle theft, officials said.
The Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office said that, as allowed by the realignment laws enacted by the Legislature in 2011, Maxstadt was "serving" a county prison sentence for a felony conviction in Santa Clara County at the time the offenses were committed in Mendocino County.
He also has served two prior state prison sentences – one in 2010 and another in 2012, officials said.
The prosecutor who conducted the two jury trials leading up to Tuesday’s sentencing hearing is District Attorney David Eyster. The law enforcement team who investigated and put together the case was the California Highway Patrol, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, the Willits Police Department, the California Department of Justice crime laboratory and the District Attorney's Office’s own investigators.
Eyster offered special thanks to Stutchman Forensic Laboratory in Napa for expert forensic audio/video assistance and testimony.
Ryan Joseph Maxstadt, 29, was sentenced by Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Ann Moorman to 38 years, eight months to life in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office.
The sentence results from convictions by jury of attempted murder of a CHP officer, assault with a firearm on a CHP officer, personal discharge of a firearm, felon in unlawful possession of a firearm and vehicle theft, officials said.
The Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office said that, as allowed by the realignment laws enacted by the Legislature in 2011, Maxstadt was "serving" a county prison sentence for a felony conviction in Santa Clara County at the time the offenses were committed in Mendocino County.
He also has served two prior state prison sentences – one in 2010 and another in 2012, officials said.
The prosecutor who conducted the two jury trials leading up to Tuesday’s sentencing hearing is District Attorney David Eyster. The law enforcement team who investigated and put together the case was the California Highway Patrol, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, the Willits Police Department, the California Department of Justice crime laboratory and the District Attorney's Office’s own investigators.
Eyster offered special thanks to Stutchman Forensic Laboratory in Napa for expert forensic audio/video assistance and testimony.
NORTH COAST, Calif. – The California Highway Patrol said an Alameda County man has been taken into custody for a carjacking in Hopland last week.
David Lee Bonino II, 33, was arrested in the case, according to a Tuesday evening report from the CHP’s Ukiah Area office.
Authorities said it was Bonino who last Tuesday took a Ford F-250 pickup from the parking lot of Retech Systems, located north of Hopland, with the vehicle’s owner jumping onto the running board to stop the theft. The owner was thrown from the vehicle but uninjured, as Lake County News has reported.
Law enforcement would pursue the pickup two different times as Bonino fled south on Highway 101 toward Cloverdale, the CHP said.
Bonino later ditched the vehicle in a heavily wooded area and fled on foot, with ground and air searches unable to locate him.
That same day, the CHP arrested Margarita Sobalvarro, 26, of Antioch, who they identified as an accomplice. When officers searched the Camaro Sobalvarro was driving, they found two loaded handguns, one of which had been reported stolen.
The CHP said it worked with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and the Alameda County Auto Theft Task Force to identify Bonino as the suspect in the carjacking.
Task force detectives located Bonino in Alameda County and took him into custody on Friday evening in Dublin, according to Alameda County booking records.
Bonino is being held on charges of carjacking, use of a firearm during the commission of a felony and being a felon in possession of a firearm, as well as violation of community supervision, based on his booking sheet. His bail is set at $190,000.
Sobalvarro remains in custody in Mendocino County, with bail set at $135,000, according to booking records. She was booked on felony charges including vehicle theft, conspiracy, being armed in the commission of a felony, being a felon or addict in possession of a firearm, receiving stolen property and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person, and a misdemeanor charge of having a concealed weapon in a vehicle.
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David Lee Bonino II, 33, was arrested in the case, according to a Tuesday evening report from the CHP’s Ukiah Area office.
Authorities said it was Bonino who last Tuesday took a Ford F-250 pickup from the parking lot of Retech Systems, located north of Hopland, with the vehicle’s owner jumping onto the running board to stop the theft. The owner was thrown from the vehicle but uninjured, as Lake County News has reported.
Law enforcement would pursue the pickup two different times as Bonino fled south on Highway 101 toward Cloverdale, the CHP said.
Bonino later ditched the vehicle in a heavily wooded area and fled on foot, with ground and air searches unable to locate him.
That same day, the CHP arrested Margarita Sobalvarro, 26, of Antioch, who they identified as an accomplice. When officers searched the Camaro Sobalvarro was driving, they found two loaded handguns, one of which had been reported stolen.
The CHP said it worked with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and the Alameda County Auto Theft Task Force to identify Bonino as the suspect in the carjacking.
Task force detectives located Bonino in Alameda County and took him into custody on Friday evening in Dublin, according to Alameda County booking records.
Bonino is being held on charges of carjacking, use of a firearm during the commission of a felony and being a felon in possession of a firearm, as well as violation of community supervision, based on his booking sheet. His bail is set at $190,000.
Sobalvarro remains in custody in Mendocino County, with bail set at $135,000, according to booking records. She was booked on felony charges including vehicle theft, conspiracy, being armed in the commission of a felony, being a felon or addict in possession of a firearm, receiving stolen property and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person, and a misdemeanor charge of having a concealed weapon in a vehicle.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – On Thursday, March 15, Operation Tango Mike – which translates from military jargon to Operation Thanks Much – will commemorate 15 years of troop support.
The all volunteer nonprofit has shipped more than 20,000 care packages to deployed military personnel.
On the third Thursday of every month, volunteers gather at 6 p.m. at Umpqua Bank, 805 11th St., Lakeport, to prepare care packages for the troops.
Monthly shipping fees averaging $1,740, and an additional $2,000 or more to purchase items for care packages, are covered through donations and fundraising.
The local effort began on behalf of two Lake County soldiers deployed to Afghanistan in March 2003. At times, more than 150 monthly care packages have been shipped.
Currently, 80 to 100, and sometimes more, care packages are sent to troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries.
The majority of care package recipients are from Lake and Mendocino counties, although that is not a requirement.
Military families are supported as well. Many volunteers that support Operation Tango Mike have volunteered their assistance with home repairs, transportation and more.
With no base or military installation in the local area, folks that wish to support troops and their families gather via Operation Tango Mike. Military families are welcomed and are provided with emotional support, knowing that they and their loved ones are appreciated.
“Forget politics, support our troops,” is the mantra that has helped ensure that all are welcomed and appreciated at Operation Tango Mike functions. The effort does not involve politics and exists to support our troops and their families.
Packing parties are family friendly and children are encouraged to participate. Every care package is decorated with stickers and artwork by “the world’s greatest decorating crew” of children.
Troops express appreciation in messages that are sent to Operation Tango Mike.
One recent message (edited for operational security) read:
“Dear Operation Tango Mike,
Thank you for the monthly care packages! My company and I are enjoying all the great gifts from back home! The weather over here in XXX has been cold. Just the other day it was 8 Degrees Fahrenheit. The coffee, cocoa, and snacks keep us going on our off time!
We’ve been doing a lot over here, lots of training exercises with XXX allies and holding down the XXX line! We appreciate the support from back home! We’re here to make you proud!”
SPC. Jacob Peters, U.S. ARMY
A message from a military parent read:
“I just wanted to thank you for sending packages to our soldier during his deployment. As of now, Spc. Laws is back on US soil. We hope another soldier will appreciate the devotion and care that goes into each package! Thank you for what you do!”
The public is invited and encouraged to help celebrate and commemorate fifteen years of community effort.
On March 15, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., there will be an open house at Umpqua Bank. It will be an opportunity to visit and learn more about Operation Tango Mike, read letters from troops, browse photos and get acquainted.
Refreshments will be served. Catering is generously being donated by Rosemary Martin of Rosey Cooks LLC.
The regular monthly packing party will take place at 6 p.m. and as holiday items are shipped one month in advance to ensure timely delivery, the March care packages will be Easter boxes. You are invited to bring along any special treats, candies, correspondence or items you would like to include in care packages.
For further information or to add someone to the care package recipient list, please call 707-349-2838 or e-mail
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Over the next few weeks, city of Lakeport management staff and members of the Lakeport Economic Development Advisory Committee, or LEDAC, will be performing a series of “business walks” to all Lakeport businesses.
The intent of these visits is to familiarize the business community with the resources available to them and give local business operators a chance to speak directly with the city about issues that they believe should be considered to make sure local businesses continue to thrive and grow.
The business walks will occur during the last three weeks of March, with followup activities to be made during April.
Findings from the visits will be compiled by LEDAC and presented to the Lakeport City Council.
Performing annual in-person visits to local businesses was identified in the city’s economic development strategic plan as an important element in the support and retention of existing local businesses.
In addition to the upcoming business walks, LEDAC and the Lakeport Community Development Department have recently completed a “Guide to Doing Business in Lakeport” to assist persons interested in starting a new business.
Topics in this guide include “Developing a Business Plan,” “Check and Clear Zoning Regulations,” “Structure Your Business,” and a list of contacts regarding how to obtain a city business license and other pertinent permits.
The guide also includes information and contacts to services that are aimed at assisting new businesses get off the ground, many of which are free.
The guide will be available on the city’s Web site by the end of the week by accessing the business tab from the homepage at www.cityoflakeport.com.
Hard copies of the Guide will also be available through City Hall, the Lakeport Main Street Association and Lake County Chamber of Commerce.
If you are interested in more information pertaining to the City’s Economic Development Strategic Plan or other LEDAC endeavors, LEDAC meets bimonthly on the second Wednesday, 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. at City Hall.
The next meeting is on March 14; all meetings are open to the public.
The intent of these visits is to familiarize the business community with the resources available to them and give local business operators a chance to speak directly with the city about issues that they believe should be considered to make sure local businesses continue to thrive and grow.
The business walks will occur during the last three weeks of March, with followup activities to be made during April.
Findings from the visits will be compiled by LEDAC and presented to the Lakeport City Council.
Performing annual in-person visits to local businesses was identified in the city’s economic development strategic plan as an important element in the support and retention of existing local businesses.
In addition to the upcoming business walks, LEDAC and the Lakeport Community Development Department have recently completed a “Guide to Doing Business in Lakeport” to assist persons interested in starting a new business.
Topics in this guide include “Developing a Business Plan,” “Check and Clear Zoning Regulations,” “Structure Your Business,” and a list of contacts regarding how to obtain a city business license and other pertinent permits.
The guide also includes information and contacts to services that are aimed at assisting new businesses get off the ground, many of which are free.
The guide will be available on the city’s Web site by the end of the week by accessing the business tab from the homepage at www.cityoflakeport.com.
Hard copies of the Guide will also be available through City Hall, the Lakeport Main Street Association and Lake County Chamber of Commerce.
If you are interested in more information pertaining to the City’s Economic Development Strategic Plan or other LEDAC endeavors, LEDAC meets bimonthly on the second Wednesday, 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. at City Hall.
The next meeting is on March 14; all meetings are open to the public.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Board of Supervisors will meet this week for another of its special workshops regarding the creation of new cannabis-related regulations.
The board will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday, March 15, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8 and online at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
At Thursday’s meeting the board will consider giving necessary approvals to staff to establish a cannabis budget unit and fund and allocate necessary start-up staffing.
The board also is expected to give staff direction to develop recommendations for personal permits to grow, registration and further options for enforcement, which would be brought back at a regular board meeting.
The memorandum to the board from County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson and Community Development Director Bob Massarelli explained that the meeting is the third in a series of cannabis workshops that are part of the board’s approved work plan to finalize recreational cannabis provisions in county code which are “consistent with but not duplicative of state regulations.”
The memo said workshop’s four segments will include:
– A report from Community Development Department staff on the number of cannabis self-certifications received and confirmed to date;
– A report from county department heads and staff who are a part of the Finance Subcommittee of the larger Cannabis Stakeholder Department Head Stakeholder Workgroup;
– A report from County Counsel Anita Grant clarifying provisions of the urgency ordinance adopted on Dec. 19 based on questions raised by the public regarding temporary permits during the board’s March 6 regular board meeting.
– A conceptual discussion led by Board Chair Jim Steele regarding personal cannabis grows, including consideration of a registration process and/or personal permits to grow, depending on the size of the grow, as well as discussion of further options for general enforcement.
Email Elizabeth Larson atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Follow her on Twitter, @ERLarson, or Lake County News, @LakeCoNews.
The board will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday, March 15, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8 and online at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
At Thursday’s meeting the board will consider giving necessary approvals to staff to establish a cannabis budget unit and fund and allocate necessary start-up staffing.
The board also is expected to give staff direction to develop recommendations for personal permits to grow, registration and further options for enforcement, which would be brought back at a regular board meeting.
The memorandum to the board from County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson and Community Development Director Bob Massarelli explained that the meeting is the third in a series of cannabis workshops that are part of the board’s approved work plan to finalize recreational cannabis provisions in county code which are “consistent with but not duplicative of state regulations.”
The memo said workshop’s four segments will include:
– A report from Community Development Department staff on the number of cannabis self-certifications received and confirmed to date;
– A report from county department heads and staff who are a part of the Finance Subcommittee of the larger Cannabis Stakeholder Department Head Stakeholder Workgroup;
– A report from County Counsel Anita Grant clarifying provisions of the urgency ordinance adopted on Dec. 19 based on questions raised by the public regarding temporary permits during the board’s March 6 regular board meeting.
– A conceptual discussion led by Board Chair Jim Steele regarding personal cannabis grows, including consideration of a registration process and/or personal permits to grow, depending on the size of the grow, as well as discussion of further options for general enforcement.
Email Elizabeth Larson at