3 Bay Area men face charges in May dispensary break-in that led to fatal shooting

Three Bay Area men are facing charges in the May burglary of a cannabis facility that led to a fatal shooting by a security guard, Sacramento police announced Thursday.

Sacramento officers and detectives on July 1 arrested 20-year-old Carmello Dasean Madden and Darryl Dwight McQuillion III, 19, of Oakland, Sacramento Police Department said in a news release. A third man, Jermaj Lamont Nelson, 21, of Vallejo, surrendered to sheriff’s deputies July 1 at Sacramento County Main Jail.

Madden, McQuillion and Nelson are each out of custody, according to jail records.

McQuillion is scheduled to be arraigned on charges connected to the burglary Aug. 10 in Sacramento Superior Court.

Nelson returns to a Sacramento courtroom for an Aug. 27 hearing. Sacramento County District Attorney’s prosecutors filed charges against Madden, but no court date was available Thursday.

The three along with at least two other men allegedly broke into the dispensary in the 8500 block of Thys Court in the Florin Fruitridge Industrial Park, east of Florin Perkins Road, in the pre-dawn hours of May 8. A security guard who lived on the property confronted the group. The guard shot two of the men, killing one of them.

Security guard Joseph Lawrence Mills, 55, now faces manslaughter charges in Sacramento Superior Court in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Kato Lamarzae Mills, of Oakland, who is not related to him.

As many as nine masked men rushed the Thys Court dispensary, Joseph Mills’ attorney, Allan Sawyer, told The Sacramento Bee ahead of the security guard’s May court hearing. Sawyer said Mills acted in self-defense when he fired the fatal shots.

Joseph Mills is out of custody and returns July 21 to Sacramento Superior Court.

Sacramento police in their Thursday statement said officers executing search warrants in Oakland and Vallejo also seized five firearms, including a stolen weapon, privately manufactured weapons and an assault-style rifle.

Sacramento police continue to investigate the incident and ask anyone with information to call dispatchers at 916-808-5471.

Darrell Smith

The Sacramento Bee

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Darrell Smith is a local reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He joined The Bee in 2006 and previously worked at newspapers in Palm Springs, Colorado Springs and Marysville. Smith was born and raised at Beale Air Force Base and lives in Elk Grove.