blue line
For Immediate Release
Sept. 21, 2009
Contact: John Hall, PIO (951) 955-8662
(print version)

*CRIMINAL CASE UPDATE*
ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES FILED AGAINST FIVE MEN IN SHOOTING OF CHURCH BISHOP IN HOME GARDENS

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County District Attorney's Office on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, filed charges against five men in the shooting of a Catholic Church bishop in Home Gardens last week.

All five men have been charged with attempted murder with an allegation of the use of a firearm causing great bodily injury. The five are also charged in a series of robberies during a crime spree that lasted about nine hours in three counties.

Willis Webb Bagley, DOB 8-31-71, of Perris; Jacob Zachary Buscow, DOB 6-26-90; Anthony Brian Coleman, DOB 7-25-88; Timothy William Jacquemain, DOB 5-3-91; and Andrew Blake Swindle, DOB 4-14-86, all of Pomona have each been charged with the attempted murder and the robbery of the bishop at the Our Lady of Tepeyac church on Sept. 15, 2009.

All five men are also charged with the Sept. 15 robberies of an International House of Pancakes in Los Angeles County, a Denny's in Rowland Heights and a Denny's in Pomona. Four of the men, excluding defendant Buscow, are charged with robberies of a Denny's in Corona and another in Norco the same night. Coleman is also charged with felony evading arrest for leading law enforcement officers on a pursuit after Corona police pulled over their car on Interstate 15 near Limonite. The chase later ended in the city of Ontario.

The five defendants are scheduled to be arraigned in Dept. 42 at the Hall of Justice in Riverside on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. Each of the five men faces a potential life sentence.

The case, RIF152654, is being prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Abbie Marsh.



 
    blue line