Crime & Safety
Man Heads To Prison For Murrieta, SWR Robbery Spree
Brandon William Geer, 36, pleaded guilty in May to eight counts of armed robbery and two counts of attempted robbery.
MURRIETA, CA — A Canyon Lake man who committed eight robberies in Riverside County over a monthlong span was sentenced Friday to 10 years in state prison.
Brandon William Geer, 36, pleaded guilty in May to eight counts of armed robbery and two counts of attempted robbery. No charges were dropped under the plea agreement.
Superior Court Judge John Monterosso certified the terms of the plea deal and imposed the stipulated sentence.
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Geer was arrested in Temecula on Jan. 11, 2017, after perpetrating his last holdup near the Pechanga Resort & Casino.
Since then, he had been held in lieu of $675,000 bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.
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According to sheriff's Sgt. Curt Harris, Geer's first holdup in the robbery series was at a store in the 25900 block of Newport Road in Menifee.
Geer brandished a handgun at the clerk and demanded money, fleeing with a small sum and eluding deputies, who arrived minutes later.
Harris said that, through the 2016 holiday season, Geer stayed busy, robbing additional businesses in Perris, Murrieta, Wildomar and Temecula.
All of the holdups generally occurred in the predawn hours, with the same method employed each time, according to investigators.
Harris said that on Jan. 11, three places were robbed in the space of three hours, the last holdup occurring in the 44500 block of Bedford Court in Temecula.
Deputies swarmed the area and alerted Pechanga security personnel to be on the lookout for the bandit, whose description was broadcast to them and neighboring law enforcement agencies, according to Harris.
Security officers at the casino, which is less than a mile south of where the robbery happened, spotted the defendant and detained him without trouble until sheriff's investigators arrived, Harris said.
Geer was positively identified by employees at the Bedford Court store, and evidence from the earlier robberies was linked to the defendant, who had no documented prior felony convictions.
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