3 Robbery suspects arrested

By Cameron Macdonald
Citizen Staff Writer

Authorities arrested three suspects who allegedly robbed an Elk Grove credit union on Jun. 7.
Elk Grove police say that a Sacramento County deputy located and followed a vehicle containing the suspects on Interstate-80 near Fairfield later that day.
The suspects were stopped and arrested in the Bay Area city of Hercules, Elk Grove police spokesperson Christopher Trim said.
“We did recover some money from the bank robbery,” he said.
The suspects arrested are Christopher Estes, Gary Henry and Wineka Runnell. Trim said that police believe there is a fourth suspect still at large.
The robbery occurred before noon when two men reportedly entered the California Community Credit Union store on the 4800 block of Laguna Boulevard near Franklin Boulevard.
Police said one of the robbers jumped over the teller counter and told a 47-year-old employee to get on the ground. He then stole money from the teller drawers and later entered an employee’s office. The suspects stole an unknown amount of money and fled through the front doors.
No weapons were reportedly seen and the two employees were uninjured during the incident.
Trim said that the suspects had abandoned their getaway vehicle, a silver pickup truck, near the robbery site and then got into a different vehicle.
Police explained that a deputy, who was a K-9 officer, heard about the incident through a police radio and found a vehicle used by people he believed were involved in the robbery.
Elk Grove detectives later arrived to the scene and took the suspects into custody.