UKIAH, Calif. – The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office is investigating the robbery of a Ukiah market that occurred Sunday afternoon.

The incident occurred at around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a report from Sgt. James Van Hagen.

Van Hagen said deputies were dispatched at 2:40 p.m. to the Handy Market, located at 800 Lake Mendocino Drive in Ukiah, regarding a report of an armed robbery that had just occurred.

When deputies arrived they learned that the store employee was robbed by three subjects, one of whom brandished a weapon at the employee and demanded the cash from the register, Van Hagen said.

The suspect forcefully removed an undetermined amount of cash from the register and stole the employee's cell phone so he could not call 911. Van Hagen said the three suspects then fled the area in two separate vehicles.

As deputies continued to investigate the robbery California Highway Patrol officers were following one of the suspect vehicles in the area of Talmage and Old River roads in Talmage. Van Hagen said CHP attempted to initiate a traffic stop on the suspect vehicle but it refused to stop and it fled south along Old River Road.

He said CHP chased the vehicle at a slow rate of speed until the suspect vehicle finally stopped at Highway 175 in Hopland.

The suspect, 19-year-old Jeremaih Carlos Reyes, was arrested without incident, Van Hagen said.

During a search of Reyes, CHP officers located currency and a cell phone that was stolen from the Handy Market during the robbery. Van Hagen said Reyes was transported and booked into the Mendocino County Jail, with his bail is set at $75,000.

Anyone with information as to the identity of the two suspects please contact the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office at 707-463-4411.

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