Pasadena : Robber Gets 7-Year Term
A Pasadena man was sentenced last week to seven years in prison for his part in a string of “follow-home” robberies of women in the San Fernando Valley area.
Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Michael Harwin on Wednesday sentenced Richard Talley, 22, to the maximum six years for residential robbery and added a year because Talley took property worth more than $25,000, a special allegation allowing the judge to enhance the sentence.
Talley, who pleaded no contest to one count of residential robbery, was one of three men convicted of stealing a $30,000 diamond ring from a Woodland Hills woman they followed home from a supermarket in May.
Officers from the Special Investigations Section of the Los Angeles Police Department arrested the three men after they followed Catherine Rothenberg from a Ralphs market and robbed her in the driveway of her home, authorities said. Rothenberg was uninjured and her purse and diamond ring were recovered.
Police said Talley, his two accomplices and perhaps others were responsible for as many as 24 follow-home robberies from Burbank to Calabasas.
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