The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office has made a new arrest in the ongoing investigation of a home invasion that terrorized a Sonoma neighborhood in September. Detailing the latest developments in a statement, the Sheriff's Office revealed that 52-year-old Norma Matamoros, a former house cleaner for the victims and step-mother to one of the already detained suspects, has now been charged in connection with the violent crime. According to the Sonoma Sheriff's social media update, she is facing a slew of felony charges, including elder abuse, vehicle theft, robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy, and kidnapping.
Evidence unearthed during the ongoing investigation allowed for the quick identification of Matamoros as a new suspect, following the apprehension of her step-son, Hugo Matamoros-Acosta, and co-suspect Sincere Rush Tanner earlier in the case. The original home invasion, as reported in a previous Sheriff's Office post, occurred on September 12 and involved masked intruders armed with firearms who restrained and threatened three residents, two of whom were elderly.
Norma Matamoros was contacted by deputies last Wednesday and taken in for questioning after evidence linked her to the brutal incident. She was later booked into Sonoma County Jail, her bail set at $1,000,000. Both of her alleged accomplices, Hugo Matamoros-Acosta and Sincere Rush Tanner, remain incarcerated with bail set at over a million dollars. Charges against the younger Matamoros and Tanner include elder abuse, kidnapping to commit robbery, vehicle theft, alteration of firearm identification, first-degree robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a large-capacity magazine, conspiracy, and, in the case of Matamoros-Acosta, a misdemeanor violation of probation.
