P. v. Mackie CA4/3
Defendants Germani Jermaine Mackie, Kyle Yarber, and Larry Bernard Tarver were charged in a consolidated amended information with kidnapping to commit robbery (Pen. Code, § 209, subd. (b)(1); count 1), robbery (§§ 211; 212.5, subd. (c); count 2), false imprisonment by menace or violence (§§ 236, 237, subd. (a); count 3); commercial burglary (§§ 459, 460, subd. (b); count 4), criminal threat (§ 422, subd. (a); count 5), attempting to dissuade a witness (§ 136.1, subd. (a)(2); count 6), and receiving stolen property (§ 496, subd. (a); count 7). The information further alleged Yarber personally used a firearm in the commission of the charged offenses (§§ 12022.5, subd. (a), 12022.53, subd. (b)), Mackie personally used a deadly weapon, a knife, (§ 12022, subd. (b)(1)), each of the defendants was armed with a firearm (§ 12022, subd. (a)(1), and Mackie and Tarver were vicariously armed with a firearm (§ 12022, subd. (d)).
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