On Saturday Chico Police responded to two armed robberies 30 minutes apart from each other in downtown Chico. The first robbery took place after 1 Saturday morning at the parking lot of Bank of America. That's when an Hispanic male allegedly approached the victim and put a semi-automatic firearm to his head and took an undisclosed amount of money - fleeing the scene in a sliver sedan.
About 30 minutes later Chico Police received a report of a robbery at Tocos Tonaya on Walnut Street. A white male wearing a ski mask armed with a handgun entered the restaurant and reportedly demanded personal property from five people inside. He also allegedly stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the restaurant.
No one was reported injured in either robbery.
Then on Sunday two suspects were arrested after an armed robbery along a Chico bike path. A man was walking along the bike path from West Sacramento Avenue toward downtown Chico around 10:30 Sunday night when two African American men approached him. One of the men allegedly held a handgun and demanded the victim's property. The victim was not reported injured. Officers later spotted a man matching one of the suspects. That man, identified as 19-year-old Jonah Young-Gary reportedly fled down Broadway but was quickly caught. The second suspect, identified as a 17-year-old male was stopped a couple miles away. According to a Chico Police press release, he was found with a very realistic imitation handgun along with the victim's cell phone.
