Frightened away from one would-be robbery site, a prowler was nabbed at a second Sonoma location when that homeowner punched the suspect into submission.
The sequence began Monday morning at about 12:41 a.m. when a Sonoma resident was awakened by the sound of footsteps on her porch in the 700 block of First St. W.
According to the police report, the woman then heard a crashing noise in the kitchen and alerted her husband, who went downstairs to investigate. When he turned on the kitchen light, he discovered an intruder standing in the kitchen. Startled, the prowler jumped out the kitchen window and fled the area toward the Sonoma Plaza.
Sonoma deputies were on scene within a minute, stated Sgt. Dave Thompson.
At about 1:30 a.m., while deputies were still patrolling in the vicinity, a resident in the 600-block of Broadway (about 2.5 blocks away from the original break-in) found a male subject hiding in his yard. When the prowler acted aggressively towards the resident, he was punched a few times by the property owner, Thompson said.
The resident then walked the subdued subject out to Broadway and Andrieux Streets, where he flagged down a patrolling deputy.
Sgt. Thompson reported that deputies arrested Malcolm Cory Hermosillo, a recently-paroled 22-year-old El Verano resident and booked him at the county jail for residential burglary and violation of his Post Release Community Supervision Program. Hermosillo is being held without bail.
Ah! Probationees, parolees! Get ready for more of these burglers, Sonoma, as Jerry Brown and the legislature, through lack of prison funding/space, release more and more convicts into California communities.