Home invasion robbery reported on California gun club property leads to Rio Linda man’s arrest

Detectives arrested a Sacramento County man accused of participating in a Sutter County home invasion robbery earlier this month in which one victim was pistol-whipped and another was zip-tied to a bed frame as several suspects searched the property for money, Northern California authorities said.

Joshua Jefferey Nelson, a 40-year-old Rio Linda resident, was arrested Tuesday after detectives served an arrest warrant and a search warrant at his home, the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday in a news release.

The home invasion robbery was reported shortly before 6:30 a.m. Dec. 11 at a home on the property of the Coon Creek Gun Club, an outdoor shooting range in Rio Oso, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The victims told investigators that several suspects were on the property looking for money. Sheriff’s officials said one victim was hit in the head with a pistol and later taken to a hospital for medical treatment, and another victim was zip-tied to the bed frame but was unharmed.

Sheriff’s officials said detectives later identified Nelson as one of the suspects in the home invasion robbery, and the detectives are still working on leads to identify the other suspects involved.

Nelson faces felony charges of suspicion of assault with a firearm, robbery, burglary, false imprisonment using violence, battery causing serious injury, being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and making criminal threats resulting in great bodily injury, according to online court records.

He appeared for his arraignment Thursday afternoon in Sutter Superior Court. He was being held at the Sutter County Jail.