SAN PABLO, Calif. – Two West Contra Costa residents are facing trial in connection with an armed home invasion robbery, court records show. Anthony Timmons, 26, who was acquitted of murder five months ago, and 25-year-old Kameron Wilson have been charged with first-degree residential robbery and gun possession in connection with a robbery at a San Pablo home on Van Ness Street.
Timmons, who was acquitted in May on charges he aided and abetted the murder of a 66-year-old man in 2015, is additionally charged with assault with a semiautomatic firearm for allegedly pointing a gun at one of the victims during the home invasion.
The victims were robbed of several hundred dollars in cash, a small amount of Honduran currency, as well as gold jewelry on Oct. 7. When police searched a vehicle containing Timmons, Wilson, and a third man the following day, they found several of the victims’ possessions, as well as 20 MDMA tabs, roughly two ounces of suspected fentanyl and a firearm.
Timmons’ arrest came just five months after his release from jail, where he had spent the previous seven years awaiting charges that he murdered 66-year-old Carl Roberts in Richmond. When the trial finally came, Timmons was acquitted and released. Prosecutors had argued that he and co-defendant Antoine Saucer killed Roberts after mistaking him for a witness against Saucer in an unrelated murder case. Saucer was convicted of both murders in a separate, earlier trial, and sentenced to life in prison.
Both Timmons and Wilson are in jail while the case is pending, according to court records. They are set to go on trial on Jan. 8, court records show.