Two more suspects arrested in connection to smash-and-grab at Palm Desert jewelry store
Two more suspects were arrested in connection with a smash-and-grab robbery at a jewelry store in Palm Desert.
On Wednesday, police arrested two women, an 18-year-old from Los Angeles and a 24-year-old San Bernardino resident after serving search warrants in both those cities.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Office has arrested six suspects in total in connection with the Oct. 5 El Paseo robbery. Five of the six suspects have been identified as Los Angeles area residents.
Julian Hermosillo, 18, of Los Angeles was charged with one felony count each of robbery, organized retail theft, and grand theft of over $950, according to court records. He pleaded not guilty to all charges Friday afternoon at the Larson Justice Center in Indio.
Hermosillo was arrested on Nov. 1.
Also suspected in the robbery are Los Angeles residents Mason Barron, 21, and Raymond Garcia, 24, and Byron Lee, 19, of Compton. All were charged with grand theft over $950 and organized retail theft, according to court records. Garcia and Lee were also charged with one felony count each of robbery, while Barron was charged two felony counts each of robbery, grand theft over $950 and organized retail theft, and also faces a pair of felony counts of burglary.
The three suspects were charged separately and pleaded not guilty to the charges in October.
Garcia, Barron and Lee were all arrested Oct. 18 in different areas within Los Angeles County.
Garcia, Barron and Lee were booked into the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio and Hermosillo into the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta, according to inmate records. Barron was being held on a $2,588,000 bail bond, Garcia and Hermosillo on $2,490,000 bonds, and Lee on a $310,000 bond.
Barron has previously pleaded guilty to grand theft over $950 and has an active case, in which he's suspected with a woman and two juveniles of robbing a jewelry store at the Palm Desert mall in July, according to court records.
Garcia previously pleaded guilty to a felony count of burglary while Hermosillo and Lee had no prior felony convictions in Riverside County.
Anyone with information on the robbery and burglaries was asked to call Investigator Grasso with the Palm Desert Sheriff's station at 760-836-1600.
