Arrest Made in Deadly Follow-Home Robbery in Southern California

Published on December 2, 2023

SAN DIMAS, Calif.—A 33-year-old man was in custody Dec. 1 for allegedly following a Los Angeles County employee home to San Dimas, then robbing and killing him in his garage. Jerrid Joseph Powell of Los Angeles was arrested during a traffic stop in Beverly Hills after his vehicle was caught on surveillance video reviewed by deputies investigating the Nov. 28 night shooting, which occurred just before 7 p.m. in the garage of a home in the 1800 block of Hawkbrook Drive, Sheriff Robert Luna said. Nicholas Simbolon, 42, who worked as a project manager in the Los Angeles County executive office, was found by his wife inside his Tesla in the garage of the home, suffering from a gunshot to the upper body, according to witnesses and sheriff’s officials. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene....

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