Felony charges are expected to be filed Friday against a probationer and another man suspected of robbing a Wildomar business.
Brandon Arthur Monroe, 39, and Joshua Paul Morek, 45, both of Hemet, were arrested Tuesday following a two-week Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation.
Both suspects were booked into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of robbery and conspiracy. Monroe was additionally booked on an allegation of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
According to sheriff’s Sgt. Jarrod Meissen, the holdup occurred shortly after 9 p.m. March 19 in the 23000 block of Clinton Keith Road, at a strip mall less than a block west of Interstate 15.
Meissen alleged one of the two men, wearing a mask, confronted a clerk in a store and “demanded money … while brandishing a firearm.”
After the victim complied, the suspect “ran to a vehicle parked nearby and fled at a high rate of speed” with his partner, according to the sergeant.
The clerk wasn’t injured.
Robbery detectives spent the ensuing days working to identify the bandits, ultimately confirming that Monroe and Morek were allegedly responsible, Meissen said.
He said warrants were served on the men Tuesday night — Monroe at a property on Olson Avenue in Homeland, and Morek at a property on Winchester Road in Hemet. Both were taken into custody without incident.
Jail records indicated that Monroe has a prior conviction, but it wasn’t listed. No information was available on Morek.