Seven young men and women arrested in reported Rohnert Park robbery

Seven young adults were arrested following a home invasion robbery Friday night at a house in Rohnert Park, police said.

The robbery victim, who was not identified, called Rohnert Park police to report that two young males with sweatshirts pulled over their faces had broken a sliding glass door and entered her home on Adrian Drive about 11:45 p.m., the department said in a press release.

The woman said she woke up when one of the men came into her bedroom brandishing a gun, then ordered her to get out of bed and get her purse and valuables, police said. The men ordered her back into the bedroom and continued the robbery and finally left the house.

The woman went to a neighbor’s house and called 911. Officers determined the entire house had been ransacked and the woman’s phone was among the items taken.

While Rohnert Park officers were at the scene, they were advised that Cotati police had responded to a call reporting two men, who matched the description of the Rohnert Park suspects, in the front yard of a home on East Sierra Avenue.

Cotati police located a Chevy van that contained several pieces of evidence tied to the home invasion robbery, the news release said.

The five occupants of the van - Anissa Rose Roman, 19; Robert Carlos Martinez, 20; Jose Edgar Bautista, 20, and Esmeralda Bejar, 18, all of Santa Rosa, and Maria Fernanda Herrera, 18, of Rohnert Park - were arrested and booked into Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of robbery, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit a crime, police said.

Also arrested were Alex Cardenas, 18, and Hector David Carranza-Pineda, 19, both of Santa Rosa. They were found hiding under the deck of a house on Chadwick Way in Cotati by officers who searched the area with a police dog.

Cardenas had at his side a black handgun that turned out to be a BB gun, police said.

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