Four sentenced to more than a decade for robbery spree
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Four men were sentenced to more than a decade in state prison this afternoon for committing a string of armed robberies in four local cities over a two-hour span.
In the course of the April 2008 robberies, the admitted gang members shot one man who resisted their robbery attempt and pistol-whipped three other people.
Four of the five men charged in the case pleaded no contest today to crimes including robbery and assault with a firearm as part of plea bargains reached with prosecutors in West Valley Superior Court.
Daniel Bernal, 20, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and received three strikes.
Andrew Michael Fraijo, 19, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and received one strike.
Kevin Quiroz, 18, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and received two strikes.
Jose Narisco Estrella, 20, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and received two strikes.
A fifth defendant, 18-year-old Felipe Curiel, rejected a plea offer from prosecutors, said Deputy District Attorney Tom Colclough. He is next due in court Feb. 5.
All five men are from the Ontario-Montclair area, Colclough said.
For two hours starting at about 11 p.m. on April 17, 2008, the five men set out in Curiel's green Ford Explorer and committed a string of armed robberies in Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Montclair and Ontario, according to prosecutors.
Their alleged victims, seemingly chosen at random, included a jogger and people sitting in parked cars. They shot a man in the stomach in Rancho Cucamonga after the man resisted their robbery attempt, according to prosecutors.
"This is a gang spree," Colclough said in court today.
The men were arrested in the early morning hours of April 18, 2008 after a police officer saw their car -- matching the description provided by victims -- at Mountain Avenue and Mission Boulevard in Ontario.
In court today, a sheriff's deputy arrested an audience member who yelled out to one of the defendants as he was ejected from the courtroom for talking.
"Keep your head up dog," the man said. "[Expletive] that rat."
It is illegal for courtroom audience members to talk to people in custody.
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