By F. Scott Faulkner
August 4, 2024 – Ventura County, Ca.
On July 27, 2024, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office detectives arrested Makare Toliver,
21, and Dylion Jackson, 20, in connection with an armed robbery and subsequent fatal
vehicle pursuit. The incident led to multiple charges, including conspiracy, armed
robbery, and evading an officer causing death.
In the late afternoon of July 27, Ventura County Sheriff’s Department deputies attached
to the Camarillo Police Department responded to an armed robbery report in the city’s
commercial area. Upon arrival at the scene, deputies learned that two victims were
seated in a parked vehicle when two suspects approached them, one of whom,
according to VCSD spokesman Sgt. Francisco Jauregui, “brandished a firearm and
demanded the victim’s property.”
The victims immediately surrendered “a legally-registered firearm,” whereupon the two
suspects fled the scene. Just an hour later, deputies located the suspect vehicle
cruising down a Camarillo thoroughfare. The cops attempted “a traffic stop,” but the
suspects failed to yield and fled at high speed.
With red lights and sirens on the tail of the suspect vehicle, it soon “struck a bicyclist,”
later identified as 58-year-old Robert Pierret, who was subsequently transported to a
local hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
The suspect vehicle continued to evade deputies, colliding with another vehicle which
brought the suspect vehicle to a halt. Deputies promptly swarmed the suspect vehicle
and extracted 21-year-old Makare Toliver and 20-year-old Dylion Jackson, both
residents of Lancaster, Ca.
During the search of Toliver’s vehicle, deputies found additional evidence linking him
and Jackson to the robbery. Both Toliver and Jackson were taken into custody and
transported to Ventura County Jail, where Toliver was charged with second-degree
robbery, assault with a firearm, grand theft of a firearm, evading an officer causing
death, and fleeing the scene of an accident involving death or serious injury. He remains
in custody on a no-bail hold. Jackson was charged with conspiracy and armed robbery
with her bail set at $100,000.
