July 20-28: Fair Oaks Man Busted With Twin Brother

Twins

Sacramento police doubled down on a Fair Oaks parolee when they nabbed him and his twin brother Thursday.

A police officer first tried to stop Anthony Raymond Turner of Fair Oaks and brother Mica Johnny Turner of Sacramento, both 29, when he spotted them loitering near the bushes behind an AM/PM convenience market on Watt Avenue and Auburn Boulevard Thursday afternoon, said Sgt. Norm Leong, spokesman for the police department.

But the Turners ran, forcing the officer into sort of a Sophie’s Choice as he chased Anthony Turner to a nearby warehouse and radioed for backup to corral Mica Turner, who ran eastbound on Auburn Boulevard across from Watt Avenue.

Leong said Anthony Turner surrendered without further incident once the officer caught up to him at the warehouse.

Seven additional officers responded to set up a perimeter around the area, and eventually found Mica Turner hiding in a large dumpster in the 3800 block of Annadale Lane, Leong explained.

The Turner twins are currently in county jail on matching no-bail parole holds. No court dates have been scheduled as of yet, according to online jail records.

Anthony Turner was in the midst of a three-year probation stint for a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest that he pleaded no contest to last year, according to online court records. In March 2006, his brother was sentenced to five years in state prison after pleading no contest to a felony carjacking charge.

Fare Play

A Fair Oaks transient and a Sacramento man were arrested last month on a light rail train when the backpack they were passing to each other was found to contain marijuana, a Sacramento police official said.

Police say Michael Sommers, a 19-year-old transient reportedly from Fair Oaks, was riding light rail with Rasool Rucksmartin, 32, of Sacramento and one other person on July 20, when regional transit officers contacted them during a fare inspection. Two of the three didn’t have tickets, said Sgt. Leong, though he didn’t specify which two.

The subjects were seen passing a backpack to each other as officers boarded, Leong said. While Rucksmartin had a medical marijuana recommendation from a doctor, the backpack filled with marijuana, cash, digital scales and small baggies indicative of marijuana sales belonged to Sommers, who did not have a doctor’s recommendation.

Sommers and Rucksmartin were arraigned in Sacramento Superior Court two days after their arrest on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana with the intent to sell, a felony. Sommers also faces a count of unlawful possession of a weapon, for a hunting knife police found on him.

Leong said the two suspects were taken off the light rail train when it was discovered they didn’t have tickets.