The defendant in the Rossmoor home invasion robbery will stand trial.
The Monday morning, April 9 preliminary hearing for Tyler James Compton, 23, ended with a judge ruling that he be “held to answer.”
His arraignment has been scheduled for April 19, said Farrah Emami, spokesperson for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
On Wednesday, Dec. 7, Tyler James Compton, 23, pleaded not guilty to all charges: robbery in the first degree, false imprisonment of an elder by violence, inflicting injury on an elder adult and two sentencing “enhancements” of using a firearm in the commission of a crime.
Compton is being held on $210,000 bail, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Web site.
A bail reduction hearing was scheduled for Monday afternoon, April 9. Results of that hearing were not available at press time.
On Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, an elderly Rossmoor resident used her Life Alert system to call for help. According to the Sheriff’s Department Web, she had been robbed and was tied up in her home on Weatherby Road.
When deputies entered the house, they heard her screaming that she was tied to a chair.
The Sheriff’s Department investigators obtained descriptions of two suspects: a white man with a gun and a man she described as Hispanic. The second suspect wore black gloves with snowflakes on them. They left the scene in a white Mazda pick up truck.
Compton was arrested the next day, Thursday, Dec. 8.
The other suspect in the case remains at large.
