People v. Nave CA3

BACKGROUND

On April 17, 2022, Placer County Sheriff’s Deputy Anthony Santiago responded to an assault of a Starbucks employee. The victim told Santiago that shortly after she had

1 arrived for work at 4:15 a.m., a transient-looking man she did not recognize approached her and told her he also worked there. The victim told the man to wait outside, but he followed her inside. Once inside, the man put his right arm around the victim’s throat. He was holding a “box-cutter-type” knife. The victim pushed the man away and sustained a cut on her finger. The man ran from the Starbucks. The incident was captured by a surveillance camera inside the Starbucks. A short time later, defendant was taken into custody about a mile and one-half from the Starbucks. During his arrest, defendant was seen throwing a box cutter into nearby bushes. Another responding officer testified that he went to a convenience store across the street from the Starbucks to search for the suspect. The store clerk told him the suspect had come into the store earlier that morning asking for methamphetamine and said he “wanted to kill people,” which frightened her. Defendant was charged with assault with a deadly weapon…