Fresno police engaged in a six-hour standoff with two men wanted for home invasion robbery
Two men wanted for robberies were booked into Fresno County jail Wednesday evening after a six-hour standoff in the area west of Highway 99.
Fresno Police responded at 2:30 p.m. to the 3300 block of West Shields Avenue home of 26-year-old Jose Cano and a 22-year-old Michael Ybarra, police said Thursday.
They were ultimately arrested on suspicion of strong-arm robbery and robbery, police said Thursday.
Fresno Police Lt. Sean Biggs initially said at the scene Wednesday that one of the crimes the men were wanted for was a home invasion, but police said Thursday they are not facing that charge.
Detectives located both men, who are brothers, Wednesday and followed them to the apartment complex on West Shields, according to police.
Officers surrounded the apartment unit, where Cano complied with officers and was arrested, police said.
Ybarra exited the house and was confronted by officers before running back inside and closing the door, police said.
Police said family members were exiting the home and spoke to officers, and told them that Ybarra was still inside the apartment. A woman — the suspect’s grandmother — was also inside.
Officers continued to make announcements from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. before Ybarra gave up and was taken into custody, according to police.
No one was injured, according to police.
The warrants stemmed from two separate crimes involving the brothers, police say. The latest was a robbery that involved both of them in January, police said, and the previous one was the burglary of a home by just Ybarra in May.
Ybarra faces other unrelated charges, and is held in lieu of more than $1 million in bail, according to jail records.
Cano is held on suspicion of a single charge of robbery. His bail is $25,000, according to records.
