Three people were ordered June 18 to stand trial for two robberies including the hold-up of the Bambino’s Pizza & Deli in Chula Vista.
A preliminary hearing was held before Chula Vista Superior Court Judge Garry Haehnle with Chula Vista Police officers and sheriff’s deputies testifying remotely on video screens in the courtroom.
Deputy District Attorney James Koerber and defense attorneys questioned the witnesses while appearing remotely as well.
Witnesses testified about the Feb. 25 hold-up at the pizza shop located at 1392 E. Palomar Street as well as the 7:20 p.m. robbery the day before at a Winchell’s Donut House in Poway.
Tarel Dontek Homes, 21, Christian Ledon, 19, and Alexzandria Annmarie Moya, 19, were ordered to next appear in court on July 2 to set a trial date.
They have all pleaded not guilty.
The trio were also ordered to stand trial on two conspiracy counts. Ledon is an escaped inmate who walked away from a Los Angeles area firefighting camp for low-risk prisoners.
Ledon was serving a 4-year sentence for robbery and would have been paroled in July 2021. The charges allege Moya helped him escape on Feb. 23. The conspiracy charge against Moya and Ledon says she rented a car and drove to the Action Conservation Camp where he had been housed. Ledon got into the car and they drove away, according to the escape charge.
The trio were arrested Feb. 26 and Feb. 27. Ledon was arrested at a car rental lot at Lindbergh Field.
Ledon is being held without bail in the South Bay Detention Facility because he is an escaped inmate. Homes, who has a prior conviction for robbery in 2019, is also in jail on $250,000 bail. Moya remains in the Las Colinas Women’s Detention & Re-entry Facility on $200,000 bail.
