Local Man Booked for Armed Robbery

Nearly two weeks after a 42-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint on the 3000 block of Roland Drive, local man Franky Vultaggio, 20, was booked into Santa Cruz County Jail on Friday.

The woman had reported that her purse was stolen on the evening of April 9.

The next day, Santa Cruz sheriff's Deputy Nicholas Baldrige and state parole agents searched Vultaggio's home, just a block from the scene of the crime. They recovered items that had been reported stolen and drug paraphernalia.

According to an official release from the county's sheriff-coroner, they also found "clothing items consistent with those being described being worn by the robbery suspect."

Vultaggio was arrested immediately for parole violation. The weapon used in the robbery has yet to be recovered.