By Sara Beth Williams–
Citrus Heights Police responded to an armed robbery last week at a convenience store in the 6100 block of Greenback Lane, later arresting a suspect who was on supervised release for a prior homicide.
According to a department social media post, the suspect fled the scene by vehicle before officers arrived. The department credited its new Real Time Information Center operator for identifying the suspect using camera footage and “other technological resources.”
The suspect, a 40-year-old male from North Highlands, was on Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS) for homicide, police said.
“Clearly, this was a dangerous person who needed to be apprehended,” the Police Department wrote, adding that Citrus Heights IMPACT detectives tracked down and apprehended the suspect on March 28. The suspect is now being held at the Sacramento County Main Jail with a “no-bail PRCS violation” according to police.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website says Post Release Community Supervision is defined as “supervision provided to an inmate who has been released from a CDCR institution to the jurisdiction of a county agency, pursuant to the Post Release Community Supervision Act of 2011.”
The 2011 legislation, known as prison realignment, was aimed at addressing the overcrowding of California’s prisons by shifting responsibility from the state to counties for monitoring and incarcerating “lower-level” offenders, according to the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.
