OAKLAND — An area resident was betrayed by his personal ankle monitor, resulting in his latest arrest and a brand new gun case, court docket information present.
Maurice Herron, 27, was arrested on suspicion of homicide, after police recognized him as a attainable suspect within the April 19 murder of 33-year-old Roosevelt Jones. However Herron prevented homicide prices, and was as an alternative charged with possessing a firearm allegedly discovered when police caught up with him on April 21.
Jones was allegedly shot and killed by his tried theft sufferer, who police say killed him in self-defense. Jones’ 33-year-old cousin, Jashawndre Uphsaw, has been arrested and charged with homicide underneath the speculation that he was armed and assisted Jones within the theft.
Herron grew to become a attainable suspect as a result of authorities positioned the robbers’ automobile in Hayward hours after the killing, and Herron’s girlfriend was allegedly driving it. Herron was sporting an ankle monitor on account of a pending gun case. Information from the machine positioned him on the scene of the murder and at a hospital the place Jones was dropped off, authorities allege.
Police allege that shortly after midnight on April 19, Jones and Upshaw approached a Richmond resident on the five hundred block of 18th Avenue in Uptown Oakland, and tried to rob him for a diamond necklace. When Jones allegedly threw the would-be theft sufferer onto the pavement, he responded by pulling out a gun and capturing Jones a number of occasions.
Herron, who has been convicted of eight felonies since 2015, has been arrested two different occasions this 12 months. He was charged with possessing a stolen gun in January, launched from jail, and arrested once more on suspicion of possessing housebreaking instruments in February, court docket information present.
On prime of his new gun case, Herron can also be charged with violation probation from a previous housebreaking case. On April 30, he posted $180,000 bail and was launched from jail, court docket information present.
