VAN NUYS : Suspect Pleads Guilty in ‘Follow-Home’ Robbery

One of three men who police allege belonged to a ring of “follow home” robbers who have victimized women in the San Fernando Valley pleaded guilty Monday to robbing a Woodland Hills woman in her driveway last month.

Derrick Mosley, 20, of Pacoima entered his guilty plea in Van Nuys Municipal Court just before a preliminary hearing on the charge. The hearing for Mosley’s two alleged accomplices, Bernard Roberts, 24, of Granada Hills, and Richard Talley, 22, of Pasadena was postponed until Thursday to allow prosecutors time to file additional charges against them. All three men had pleaded not guilty to the Woodland Hills robbery charge when they were arraigned May 28.

Unlike most guilty pleas, Mosley’s action was not a result of an offer for a reduced sentence, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Gloria M. Mas. However, Judge Robert L. Swasey indicated that he would sentence Mosley to at most four years in prison. If Mosely had gone to trial and been convicted on the single count of robbery, he could have received a maximum term of seven years. Sentencing was set for July 14.