Pair Arrested After Road Rage Turns Into Armed Robbery

Two Union City men were arrested after a Newark man reported that the pair robbed him at knifepoint Sunday afternoon, police said.

Eldridge Williams, 29, and Jamal Williams, 25, were arrested at their Union City home after a road rage incident on State Route 84 turned into an armed robbery, police said.

The victim was not injured, Commander Robert Douglas of the Newark Police Department said. Douglas did not know whether the pair of suspects were related.

The victim, a 20-year-old Newark man, called police around 1:30 p.m. from the area of Jarvis Avenue and Newark Boulevard.

The Newark man told police a road rage incident had occurred on State Route 84 and that two men followed him to on Newark Boulevard where he was held at knife point and robbed of his wallet and cell phone.

The pair of suspects fled, but not for long. Police said they returned twice, and slashed tires and broke windows of the Newark man’s car.

Witnesses gave police a plate number for the suspects’ vehicle and police learned the car was registered to a Union City address. The pair was arrested from their home on Miramonte Way on suspicion of robbery, according to court online documents.

Both men were booked into Santa Rita Jail and are being held on $100,000 bail each, according to online court records. They are scheduled for an arraignment at the Fremont Hall of Justice at 2 p.m. Tuesday.