Two 18-year-old women have been charged by the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office with assaulting and robbing a man in Walnut Creek.
The incident occurred on August 7th around 11:00 p.m. in a supermarket parking lot in the 1900 block of Tice Valley Boulevard near Rossmoor. The victim, a 62-year-old Walnut Creek resident, was sitting in the passenger seat of a van while his partner shopped inside the store. Jaycee Whitney Chamberlain Behnke of Walnut Creek, Antonina “Hunter” Abdulwajid of Concord, and two juveniles drove up to the victim’s van and circled it multiple times. When the victim got out and walked toward their car, which had stopped nearby, one of the juveniles jumped out and attacked him.
Abdulwajid and the other juvenile then joined the assault, punching and kicking the victim until he fell to the ground, where he was kicked repeatedly by one of the juveniles. Video footage and witness statements confirmed the attack, which left the victim injured and resulted in the theft of his personal property. While Walnut Creek Police investigated the incident, an officer spotted the suspects’ vehicle less than half a mile away. All four suspects were arrested and booked into the Martinez Detention Facility and Contra Costa Juvenile Hall. The juvenile cases will proceed confidentially through Juvenile Court.
Abdulwajid and Behnke were both charged with second-degree robbery [PC 211] and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury [PC 245(a)(4)]. Abdulwajid was arraigned today at 1:30 p.m. in Contra Costa Superior Court in Martinez, and Behnke was arraigned on August 12th. Both have a bail amount set at $80,000. A preliminary hearing has been set for August 22nd at 8:30 a.m. in Department 22 in Pittsburg. If convicted, both women could face a maximum of six years in state prison.
“Everyone deserves to live in safe and secure communities,” said Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton. “The collaborative work between Walnut Creek Police and my office demonstrates our unwavering commitment to holding accountable those who threaten the safety of others.”
ZERO TOLERANCE OF ELDER ABUSE,
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Take a couple of minutes out of your day and let District Attorney’s
office know what you want JUSTICE for our elderly.
DAOffice@contracostada.org
Phone 925-957-2200
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Criminals need to be put on notice you harm
an elderly person you WILL BE INCARCERATED ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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Send a message to criminals, no charge dropping or plea bargaining
CoCo county will seek harshest penalties available.
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ELDER ABUSE, ZERO TOLERANCE
August 8 post had charges,
“4 Felony Counts:
Robbery, Assault with a Deadly Weapon that is not a Firearm,
Causing Injury to an Elder, Conspiracy to Commit a Crime”
https://tinyurl.com/4strdx4h
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Yet this post makes no mention of Causing Injury to an Elder,
or Conspiracy to Commit a Crime.
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Has DA already gone soft ? ? ? ? ?
Contact DA and ask what is going on, where’s maximum penalty ? ? ? ?
Is anyone really surprised? It’s the new career path promoted and supported by the democrat politicians and their supports.
Welcome to third world USA. The previous economy was not sustainable. The rich kept getting richer and the masses trampled on. I doesn’t have to be a bad thing if everyone has a way to survive so that crime isn’t a new path. Unfortunately that might take a bit of time for adjustment.
What form of life attacks the elderly, women or children? The lowest form possible glad their names were released…
I am sure Diane Becton will let them walk with no charges!
It sounds like a joke, a bad one at that. Beating someone until they are down and then continuing to kick them before Robbing them is only 2nd degree robbery? What kind of additional punishment do you have to get for it to become 1st degree robbery?
I would like to see, for the juveniles anyway, the punishment be bedpan duty at several senior assisted living facilities, like 6-12 months worth. Give them the shiffiest (in honor of the most loathsome individual in the US government) duty details possible, make it awful. Follow up with lavatory cleaning at the local incarceration facilities, to be watched (and hooted at) by the local denizens for even just a month. I suspect that may give them new perspective.
They’d just steal the bed pans.
Pictures of the adult perps is warranted… full prosecution to the extent of the law (Becton) …hold the adults in jail till court date – hold the juveniles in Juvy till court date… jail time and fines 100% warranted.
Why are all the comments calling a 62 year old man “elderly”??? The article doesn’t say that. Since when is 62 elderly? It just hurts the ego a bit when you realize how close to 62 you are….
third quarter almost the forth… that makes us elderly. sucks.
The global population under the age of 60 is approximately 6.7 billion people. This represents about 86.2% of the total world population.
“my office demonstrates our unwavering commitment to holding accountable those who threaten the safety of others.”
Sorry, Milk shot out my nose when I heard this coming from Becton herself.
WOW. What a world of make believe that woman lives in.
#RecallBecton
2nd degree charges and minimal $80K bail tells the real story.
You and I see criminals, they see voters.
‘When the victim got out and walked to their car’
Tactical error I bet he regrets.