• WOMEN ROB HATCH ROAD SUBWAY: CERES - Police are seeking help from the public is identifying two women who on Monday robbed the Subway sandwich shop on Hatch Road.
Two Caucasian women in their late 20s entered the shop at approximately 7:27 a.m. One female ordered the register clerk to hand over the money. As the clerk opened the cash register, one of the females jumped over the counter to take the cash in the till. She jumped the counter again and both women escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. They were last seen running eastbound through the parking lot towards Richland Avenue.
Nobody was injured during the robbery. There was no mention of a weapon being used.
Ceres Police Department is asking anyone with any information or who may have any information in reference to the robbery is encouraged to call: Detective Derek Perry at 538-5730 or the Stanislaus Area Crime Stoppers, 1-866-60-CRIME.
• MAN ARRESTED AFTER CHASE: CERES - Brandon Robbins, 22, of Ceres, was arrested at the end of a police chase of him on Wednesday, July 18.
At 11:52 p.m. Officer Freddie Ortiz spotted a white 1999 Camaro on Herndon Road which had no front license plate. When Ortiz tried to stop Robbins the chase was on down westbound Whitmore Avenue where Robbins was observed blowing through two red lights. Robbins then tried to duck into his house at the corner of Morgan Road and Whitmore Avenue.
"He was trying to make it home to keep his car from being towed because he was driving on a suspended license," said Lt. Brent Smith.
Robbins was booked on charges of driving on a suspended license and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.
• CARL'S JR. ROBBED: CERES - Employees of Carl's Jr. in Ceres reported that a man robbed them at 12:22 p.m. on Sunday. The suspect told clerks that he had a gun but none seen. They handed over a small amount of cash from the till.
The area was checked but police did not find the Latino suspect, who was described as being 5-foot-5, wearing black clothing and who left on a silver or white mountain bike.
• THEFT FROM A FIRE TRUCK: CERES - As Ceres Fire Department personnel responded to the scene of an emergency at 617 Anthony Avenue on Saturday morning, a man allegedly broke into a Ceres fire engine and stole items that were later recovered.
A Sheriff's deputy later arrested Martin Domino, 51, of Modesto, in the Driftwood Mobile Home on River Road after he was found with a stolen pager, ID and card key belonging to a Ceres firefighter.
• MAN KILLED: SOUTH MODESTO - A 35-year-old Latino man was found shot to death Sunday in a car parked in the 700 block of Anthony Avenue near Latimer Avenue. The discovery of the body was made at 11 p.m., according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department.
His identity was not revealed.However, investigators said they would like to talk to Crows Landing parolee Louis A. Amaya, 32, as "a person of interest." Officials say that Amaya is 5-foot-9, with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information on the slaying is urged call the Sheriff's Department at 552-2468. Or tips may be shared anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at (209) 521-4636.
• DOMESTIC FIGHT DRAWS POLICE TO BURGLARY SUSPECT: CERES - A fight with a female in the Save Mart Shopping Center on Friday afternoon led Ceres police to a suspect who also was engaging in residential burglaries, said Lt. Brent Smith.
Police received a 3 p.m. call about a domestic fight in the store that spilled out into the parking lot. Witnesses said that Nino Saldavar, 28, of Keyes, was slapping the woman.
Officer Jose Amador approached the couple and Saldavar bolted in foot toward the Bank of America. He was chased as he jumped over the fence onto the post office property and then into backyards in the area of El Dorado Drive and El Ferrari Court. Police eventually found Saldavar hiding in bushes and attempting to conceal his head with a rock. Saldavar ignored repeated calls to come out so a police canine was sent in to help bring him to arrest. Saldavar later went to the hospital for treatment of canine bites.
Police retraced Saldavar's steps and found that a backpack that he dropped. Inside were papers taken during an auto burglary in 2300 block of Fifth Street at 8:30 a.m. that morning. Also found was an ID card of a female taken in a 12:30 a.m. burglary of a car on Della Court.
Since Saldavar is an active parolee for theft and drug convictions, police searched his home in a trailer park at 4800 Esmar Road and found a letterman's jacket traced to the Fifth Street burglary and books and credit cards from the Della burglary.
Saldavar was booked on two counts auto burglary, domestic violence, delaying an officer, possession of meth and possession of stolen property.
The female victim left the scene.
Two Caucasian women in their late 20s entered the shop at approximately 7:27 a.m. One female ordered the register clerk to hand over the money. As the clerk opened the cash register, one of the females jumped over the counter to take the cash in the till. She jumped the counter again and both women escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. They were last seen running eastbound through the parking lot towards Richland Avenue.
Nobody was injured during the robbery. There was no mention of a weapon being used.
Ceres Police Department is asking anyone with any information or who may have any information in reference to the robbery is encouraged to call: Detective Derek Perry at 538-5730 or the Stanislaus Area Crime Stoppers, 1-866-60-CRIME.
• MAN ARRESTED AFTER CHASE: CERES - Brandon Robbins, 22, of Ceres, was arrested at the end of a police chase of him on Wednesday, July 18.
At 11:52 p.m. Officer Freddie Ortiz spotted a white 1999 Camaro on Herndon Road which had no front license plate. When Ortiz tried to stop Robbins the chase was on down westbound Whitmore Avenue where Robbins was observed blowing through two red lights. Robbins then tried to duck into his house at the corner of Morgan Road and Whitmore Avenue.
"He was trying to make it home to keep his car from being towed because he was driving on a suspended license," said Lt. Brent Smith.
Robbins was booked on charges of driving on a suspended license and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.
• CARL'S JR. ROBBED: CERES - Employees of Carl's Jr. in Ceres reported that a man robbed them at 12:22 p.m. on Sunday. The suspect told clerks that he had a gun but none seen. They handed over a small amount of cash from the till.
The area was checked but police did not find the Latino suspect, who was described as being 5-foot-5, wearing black clothing and who left on a silver or white mountain bike.
• THEFT FROM A FIRE TRUCK: CERES - As Ceres Fire Department personnel responded to the scene of an emergency at 617 Anthony Avenue on Saturday morning, a man allegedly broke into a Ceres fire engine and stole items that were later recovered.
A Sheriff's deputy later arrested Martin Domino, 51, of Modesto, in the Driftwood Mobile Home on River Road after he was found with a stolen pager, ID and card key belonging to a Ceres firefighter.
• MAN KILLED: SOUTH MODESTO - A 35-year-old Latino man was found shot to death Sunday in a car parked in the 700 block of Anthony Avenue near Latimer Avenue. The discovery of the body was made at 11 p.m., according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department.
His identity was not revealed.However, investigators said they would like to talk to Crows Landing parolee Louis A. Amaya, 32, as "a person of interest." Officials say that Amaya is 5-foot-9, with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information on the slaying is urged call the Sheriff's Department at 552-2468. Or tips may be shared anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at (209) 521-4636.
• DOMESTIC FIGHT DRAWS POLICE TO BURGLARY SUSPECT: CERES - A fight with a female in the Save Mart Shopping Center on Friday afternoon led Ceres police to a suspect who also was engaging in residential burglaries, said Lt. Brent Smith.
Police received a 3 p.m. call about a domestic fight in the store that spilled out into the parking lot. Witnesses said that Nino Saldavar, 28, of Keyes, was slapping the woman.
Officer Jose Amador approached the couple and Saldavar bolted in foot toward the Bank of America. He was chased as he jumped over the fence onto the post office property and then into backyards in the area of El Dorado Drive and El Ferrari Court. Police eventually found Saldavar hiding in bushes and attempting to conceal his head with a rock. Saldavar ignored repeated calls to come out so a police canine was sent in to help bring him to arrest. Saldavar later went to the hospital for treatment of canine bites.
Police retraced Saldavar's steps and found that a backpack that he dropped. Inside were papers taken during an auto burglary in 2300 block of Fifth Street at 8:30 a.m. that morning. Also found was an ID card of a female taken in a 12:30 a.m. burglary of a car on Della Court.
Since Saldavar is an active parolee for theft and drug convictions, police searched his home in a trailer park at 4800 Esmar Road and found a letterman's jacket traced to the Fifth Street burglary and books and credit cards from the Della burglary.
Saldavar was booked on two counts auto burglary, domestic violence, delaying an officer, possession of meth and possession of stolen property.
The female victim left the scene.
