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COALINGA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two men who were progressive successful a constabulary pursuit and allegedly stole implicit $2,000 worthy of items from a Coalinga Rite-Aid were sentenced Monday, with the 1 fishy being sentenced to 2 years successful prison, the Coalinga Police Department said.
Police accidental the operator of the fishy vehicle, Armani Smith, was sentenced to 2 years successful situation for his engagement successful the case. Police accidental his accomplice, Harold Armstrong, was sentenced to 2 years of felony probation successful Fresno County and is present connected felony probation retired of Almeda, Fresno and San Francisco. Both suspects were from the Bay Area.
According to police, connected April 7 officers were dispatched to a Rite-Aid successful Coalinga regarding a theft. Officers accidental they were informed that 2 men entered the store wearing skis masks, walked down the beforehand antagonistic and began stealing assorted intoxicant and nicotine products.
Police accidental they allegedly stole implicit $2,000 worthy of property. Police accidental the suspects past fled the store and got into a Toyota Solara and fled the scene. An serviceman located the suspects successful the country of Jayne Avenue and the I-5, uncovering the car astatine a Valero Gas presumption connected Sommerville Lane.
Police accidental the serviceman saw Armani and Armstrong wearing skis masks and suspected that they were astir to perpetrate a robbery oregon theft astatine the Valero. The serviceman activated his exigency lights, got retired of his conveyance and confronted Armani and Armstrong astatine gunpoint.
Both Armani and Armstrong ignored the officer's commands to enactment their hands up and surrender and retreated backmost into their vehicle. Police accidental they pulled distant from the substance pump, arsenic it was inactive pumping state into their car, damaging the substance pump. They past got into the I-5 heading southbound. The officer, who was unsocial astatine the time, initiated a pursuit with Armani and Armstrong reaching speeds of much than 120 miles per hour.
Police accidental they were weaving successful and retired of postulation and ran different vehicles disconnected the roadway and onto the shoulder. The serviceman pursued them for astir 8 miles until the fishy mislaid conveyance power and rolled implicit respective times, coming to a remainder successful the northbound median of the I-5.
Police accidental the suspects and a woman, Jordan Heaven Harris (who was successful the car), were thrown from the vehicle. The 3 radical were taken into custody and stolen spot from the Rite-Aid was recovered from the conveyance and the scene. Officers were aboriginal informed that the suspects and the conveyance were progressive successful different theft astatine a Rite-Aid successful the City of Lemoore, wherever astir $1,000 worthy of goods were stolen there.
At the clip of the alleged theft, Smith, Armani and Harris were charged with aggregate felony theft charges including suspicion of attempted robbery and felony evading.
