People v. Tamayo CA2/1

BACKGROUND

A. Crimes On Independence Day, July 4, 2010, Tamayo and Alex Salcedo, another Inglewood 13 member, arrived at the back door of a Ross Dress for Less store (Ross) on South Alvarado in Los Angeles. Tamayo brandished a gun at the store’s assistant manager and forced her to take him to the store’s cash office. Tamayo and Salcedo took between $40,000 and $50,000 from the safe, bound the assistant manager with plastic ties, and left the store. Two months later, on Labor Day, September 6, 2010, at 4:43 p.m., Tamayo and an unidentified associate entered a Ross store on South Figueroa in Los Angeles wearing Domino’s Pizza uniforms and carrying pizza bags. They attempted to gain access to the back of the store, ostensibly to set up pizzas for the employees, but when the manager denied them access they left. About 15 minutes later, Williams and an unidentified older associate arrived at the Ross store on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles wearing Domino’s Pizza uniforms and carrying pizza bags. They told assistant manager Monica Pena they were delivering pizza ordered by the Ross corporate office to recognize the employees for working on the holiday. The older man then…