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Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Cleanup Begins After Crime Spree : Law enforcement: Four men who were arrested in the jewelry store robbery are identified. One suspect was found in a Lancaster doghouse.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

One day after a mini-crime wave here, Antelope Valley residents cleaned up Thursday and tried to make sense of the Wednesday afternoon spree that started with a jewelry store robbery in Palmdale and ended with authorities finding one of the four suspects hiding in a doghouse in Lancaster.

Arrested were Jabarr Abdul Wheeler, 20, of Compton; Lamont Terrell Craig, 23, of Hawthorne; Darnell Du-shyne Sullivan, 25, of Los Angeles; and Joseph Decuier, 26, of Huntington Park.

The 6-foot-2 inch Decuier, who police said weighs about 220 pounds, was found hiding in a small doghouse. He was discovered, bitten and routed out by a police dog.

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The four have been charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, robbery and carjacking.

Witnesses to the robbery of Classic Jewelers in the Antelope Valley Mall said the men came with mallets to break the jewelry store’s thick glass cases and with pillowcases to store the expensive jewelry.

“Everything went downhill for them after the jewelry store,” Antelope Valley Sheriff’s Sgt. Bob Denham said.

After the jewelry store robbery, the suspects led deputies on a 13-mile car chase along the Antelope Valley Freeway and on foot in a residential area of central Lancaster. Along the way, they fired shots at a security guard and sheriff’s deputies and stole a car in a carjacking. No one was injured, authorities said.

On Thursday afternoon, the seven-month-old jewelry store was replacing the cases and preparing to open at 10 a.m. today, a store employee said.

Authorities are still trying to recover some of the estimated $700,000 in jewelry that they believe the men threw out a car window while attempting to escape, Denham said.

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The suspects are being held without bail in Antelope Valley sheriff’s station and are scheduled to be arraigned Friday, Denham said.

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