Crime Blotter July 26-Aug. 1: No New Leads in Armed Gas Station Robbery

Paper and plastic

Authorities have no new leads regarding a potential armed robbery over the weekend at a convenience store in Carmichael.

According to a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department report, a male subject entered the am/pm market at the Arco gas station at 5150 Manzanita Ave. shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday and held up a 51-year-old clerk with what he intimated was a firearm.

The report says the suspect — described as a Hispanic male between the ages of 20 and 25, 5-foot-10, 160 pounds with dark hair and brown eyes — stuck an unknown object into the clerk’s side and said “he had a gun and would kill him if he did not comply.”

Dep. Jason Ramos, a spokesman for the department, said an actual gun wasn’t seen, as the suspect “was holding something that was wrapped in a plastic bag.”

The suspect then grabbed an estimated $150 in cash out of the cash drawers and fled the store in an unknown direction.

Ramos said investigators don’t have any new information since the July 30 robbery and that presumed surveillance images from the crime were not yet releasable.

Oh brother

A brotherly dispute near Carmichael last week may have led to the arrest of a Sacramento transient who skipped out on his last court appearance.

Around 11:30 a.m. on July 25, sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an apartment complex in the 6200 block of Johanson Circle, where a man said his brother, later identified as 29-year-old Corey Lionel McCoy of Sacramento, refused to leave his apartment and threatened him with a long stick and garbage bag.

According to Ramos, the victim told deputies McCoy was a transient who was not welcome at his apartment.

When deputies arrived and contacted McCoy, he reportedly pulled away from an officer’s grasp and squared up in a fighting stance before trying to escape on foot.

Deputies caught up to McCoy inside the apartment complex after a brief foot chase. The report says McCoy repeatedly refused to follow verbal commands, including after he lay on the ground.

Ramos said officers ultimately had to use a Taser on McCoy “when he physically struggled with officers.”

McCoy is scheduled for arraignment Aug. 15 in Sacramento Superior Court on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and resisting arrest.

In July, McCoy failed to show up to court regarding a separate case. He was supposed to be arraigned on misdemeanor charges of methamphetamine possession, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest, online court records show.

The original sheriff’s report listed the incident as taking place in a parking lot or garage in the 4200 block of Manzanita Avenue in Carmichael.