8th Arrest Made In Petaluma Home-Invasion Robberies

PETALUMA, CA — The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office announced Monday the arrest of an eighth suspect in three home-invasion robberies in Petaluma last week. Jade Lafay Johnson, 19, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was taken into custody Thursday by Winston-Salem police during a traffic stop in Winston-Salem.

Sonoma County sheriff's detectives flew to North Carolina over the weekend to interview Johnson, the lone female among the eight alleged robbers. She is being held under $1-million bail and will be extradited to Sonoma County to face trial, sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Crum said.

All eight suspects in the three Petaluma home invasion robberies on March 12 were from the East Coast, primarily from Richmond, Virginia, and Winston-Salem, Crum said.

The suspects were looking for marijuana when they broke into three homes in the 100 and 200 blocks of Eugenia Drive around 3 a.m., tied up the occupants and pistol-whipped one occupant. There was no marijuana at any of the homes, Crum said.

Four men were arrested after a subsequent pursuit into Novato.

Javon Crockett, a 28-year-old man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was arrested nearby after knocking on the front door of a home and asking the resident to call him an Uber, deputies said.

Three were arrested in the parking lot of the Novato Costco. They include 20-year-old Chrisshawn Denardray Beal and 28-year-old Jaray Day-Shawn Simmons from Winston-Salem as well as 19-year-old Melvin Corbin from Richmond, Virginia. A woman escaped capture at that location, however.

Around 7:30 p.m. that same day, three more men from Richmond, Virginia — 22-year-old Nakia Robert Lydell Jones, 21-year-old Siddiq Jafar Abdullah and 20-year-old Romello Shamar Jones — were arrested when they tried to board a plane back to the East Coast at San Francisco International Airport, Crum said.

The seven suspects were booked into Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of robbery of an inhabited dwelling, burglary, false imprisonment, kidnapping and conspiracy. Six of the men are being held under $1-million
bail and one is on no-bail status.

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By Bay City News Service

Mugshots via Sonoma County Sheriff's jail website