2 from Charlotte, 1 from Texas charged after S.C. man tied up in home invasion
A pair of Charlotte men and another man from Texas are charged in a South Carolina home invasion robbery in Rock Hill where they tied up and threatened to kill the victim if he called police, according to York County sheriff’s deputies.
The suspects extradited from North Carolina to the York County jail Monday are Axel Johan Mendoza Mendoza, 23, of Charlotte; Marco Fernando Maradiaga, 22, of Houston, Texas; and Edgar Antonio Ramos-Ardon, 19, of Charlotte, according to the sheriff’s office, court documents and York County jail records.
All three were being held without bail on charges that include kidnapping, armed robbery, burglary, conspiracy and weapons crimes.
The ski-mask wearing suspects pistol-whipped the victim in March then stole $10,000 cash and the victim’s wallet at a house on Trexler Lane off Celanese Road west of Interstate 77, a sheriff’s office incident report alleges. The victim needed stitches after he was injured in the head and face, the report showed.
The man, who speaks only Spanish, told police through an interpreter the suspects spoke Spanish and used a Honduran dialect during the attack, according to the report.
Surveillance video at the house showed that a white car drove by three times before three men approached the house, deputies said. Video shows one of the men feeding the victim’s dogs in front of the house before the home was breached through the back door, according to the report.
The dogs did not bark or attack, leading the victim to believe the suspects were known to the animals on the property, according to the report.
Any relationship between the suspects and the victim was not clear Tuesday. Details about the investigation by sheriff’s office detectives that led to the three suspects has not been released.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers arrested the suspects before Monday’s extradition to York County.
