SAN FRANCISCO—According to evidence and testimony provided during the trial by jury in during a violent home invasion case, Montana Jones, 22, drove from East Oakland on Valentine’s Day in 2024 at 3 a.m. to a residential neighborhood in the Crocker Amazon area. There, four armed men, loaded with firearms and wearing ski masks and gloves and dressed totally in black invaded a home.
They barged their way into the property claiming they were the police, beating up the residents of the home with their firearms and were violent when they asked where they kept the valuables. The robbers kept the residents away in the bathroom, so they could look for valuables like jewelry, cash and their car, a BMW SVU. They did not allow the residents to speak their native language, which is Cantonese.
The case was successfully prosecuted with help from Assistant District Attorney John Roman and Korey M. Bell, ranking the legal team are paralegals Melissa Cruz and IT support Noaeh Pinaire. The victim advocates were Wesley Chu, Tony Leung and Ariel Edwards and District Attorney Investigators Glenn Pon, John Lenny and Michael Beaver also assisted in this case. Collaborating with the San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) Strategic Investigation Unit, Community Violence Reduction Team and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the prosecution team was able to build a good case against Jones.
Jones was guilty of all charges, including 1) four counts of first-degree residential robbery in Concert (PC211) with enhancements for a principal with a firearm(PC12022(a)(1)); 2) one count of carjacking with an enhancement for a principal with a firearm (PC12022(a)(1); 3)first-degree of residential burglary (PC459) with a hot prowl found true.
Jones is currently in police custody until his sentencing hearing.
