2 Suspects Charged In Connection With Off-Duty Sheriff Robbery: Report

DUBLIN, CA — Two men face multiple felony charges after allegedly robbing an off-duty Alameda County sheriff at gunpoint Friday, Pleasanton Weekly reported.

Raymond Barbosa, a 21-year-old from Oakland, and Daryl Caldwell, a 23-year-old from Antioch, were charged Monday with felony counts of second-degree robbery and assault with a semiautomatic firearm, in addition to numerous other charges.

Alameda County prosecutors allege that Barbosa and Caldwell robbed an off-duty deputy of his Rolex watch at the Hacienda Crossing Shopping Center on Friday. Alameda County Sheriff Lt. Jared Hattaway told The Weekly that authorities recovered the victim’s watch, and a handgun believed to be used in commission with the crime.

The deputy was robbed at 12:35 by a male with a black semi-automatic handgun in the Hacienda Crossing Shopping Center before jumping into a nearby car and fleeing, according to Alameda County Sheriff Lt. Ray Kelly. The victim was not hurt, Kelly said.

Plainclothes deputies in the area spotted the suspects’ car after they fled, and began following it, Kelly told the East Bay Times. The suspects got off at the 98th Avenue offramp of I-580 in Oakland and crashed before fleeing the vehicle on foot. Nearby deputies and police officers were able to arrest the suspects at about 1 p.m. in Oakland, Kelly said.

Friday’s incident is the latest in several armed jewelry robberies that happened in broad daylight in the East Bay. In Danville, three armed suspects robbed a man of his watch at gunpoint at the Livery Shopping Center on Aug. 6. Three armed suspects robbed another man of his watch in July at the Danville Trader Joe’s.

18-year-old Leon Cathay, a suspect in the Trader Joe’s robbery, has also been charged with armed robbery in Walnut Creek in June. In August, two men reportedly beat a man in a Walnut Creek parking lot for his Rolex watch, leaving him bleeding.