While Davis police continue their search for an at-large assault suspect, his two alleged accomplices pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges Monday during a Yolo Superior Court hearing.
Jose Alex Flores Rodriguez, 27, of Davis; and 28-year-old Norma Linda Gentry of Woodland both face counts of burglary, conspiracy and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the May 5 assault in which police said a Davis man was beaten with a baseball bat and steel pipe inside his K Street apartment.
Several of the charges carry enhancements for use of a deadly weapon and infliction of great bodily injury.
A third suspect, Davis resident Dominique Ian Krogstad, 23, also was formally charged in the case but had not been located more than a week after the alleged assault. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is urged to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.
In addition to above charges, Flores faces allegations of criminal threats resulting in great bodily injury, according to the criminal complaint, which also says that all three defendants were armed during the beatdown — Gentry with the baseball bat, Krogstad with the steel pipe and Rodriguez with an “unknown hard object.”
Police described the three defendants as “guests” who were inside the apartment when a verbal argument broke out around 6:30 a.m. It then escalated to a physical confrontation during which the victim was beaten in the head and body, sustaining moderate injuries.
Gentry and Rodriguez were arrested two days later at a Woodland home and appeared for their arraignments via video Monday from the Yolo County Jail. Judge Peter Williams ordered the pair back to court June 18 for a preliminary hearing and issued a protective order preventing them from contacting the victim.
Their bail, previously set at $50,000 each, was increased to $100,000 for Gentry and $150,000 for Rodriguez, who also has a pending case from March charging him with his fifth drunken-driving offense since 2015.
Prosecutors say Gentry also stands accused of violating her probation in two prior cases — a DUI conviction and another case in which she conspired to conceal evidence in a fatal 2015 hit-and-run collision in Woodland, in which she was a vehicle passenger.
Meanwhile, Gentry returns to court Wednesday to bid for reduced bail or release from jail on her own recognizance, though Williams advised her court-appointed attorney, “you obviously face an uphill battle at this point.”
— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene