Two more Mendocino County men arrested in armed robbery

Two men suspected in a mid-July armed robbery that involved several men posing as law enforcement officers to steal marijuana plants and other items at a remote Mendocino County property have been arrested, sheriff’s officials say.

Trevor Michael Jackson, a 34-year old Redwood Valley transient was arrested Saturday after a month-and-a-half search.

The second man, Joshua Hanover, a 29-year-old Redwood Valley resident, was arrested last month on an unrelated warrant after which detectives determined he was a suspect in the robbery, the Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.

Jackson had fled several times on motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles when deputies approached him, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Acting on a tip, deputies located him about ?5 p.m. Saturday on the 4800 block of Black Bart Trail in Redwood Valley.

Jackson was booked into Mendocino County Jail on a felony arrest warrant from the July robbery, but he is also a suspect in other Redwood Valley area thefts, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Hanover was stopped July 17 on Highway 101 in Redwood Valley and taken into custody on an unrelated Sonoma County arrest warrant.

Detectives later learned he was a suspect in the July robbery and they submitted a case against him to the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office, resulting in charges including kidnapping for robbery and being armed while committing a felony.

Three suspects - Daniel Hernandez Sanchez, Matthew Sturges and Alejandro Nunez - had been arrested previously in connection to the early morning July 16 incident.

Several armed men wearing ski masks and claiming to be police held a man at gunpoint, questioning him about the location of valuables and people on the Covelo property before robbing him of personal belongings and forcing him to assist them as they stole marijuana plants, authorities said.