One of three men involved in an armed robbery in a South San Francisco Walgreens parking lot was found guilty by a jury of five felons on Friday, May 26, and sentenced to 27, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office years and four months in prison.
James Louis Brisker IV, 29, of Vallejo, along with co-defendants Eric Hamilton and Jaymon Matthews, observed a 62-year-old woman and her 61-year-old husband at the San Pablo Lytton Casino and followed them about 30 miles as they drove to their South San home Francisco drove.
The couple pulled up in the parking lot of a Walgreens at 2238 Westborough Blvd. According to prosecutors, around 6:50 p.m. on March 31, 2019, she was blocked by the car Hamilton was driving with the other two as passengers.
Brisker and Matthews got out of the car and opened the driver’s door of the couple’s car. Brisker held the gun to the woman’s head and demanded that she give him her purse and all her money. The woman tried to get away from the car, after which she was pushed back into the car and took her $2,700 Louis Vuitton purse and about $2,000 in cash, prosecutors said.
The couple then demanded that her husband hand over all of his money, after which the man gave them $400 in cash and the trio drove out of the Walgreens parking lot. The couple were able to note the license plate number of the car Hamilton was driving and immediately called 911, which prosecutors said set off a nationwide alarm.
The car was spotted minutes after it was alerted by Daly City police officers traveling north on Interstate 280. When they initiated a traffic stop, the men were found in the back seat of the car with the woman’s purse and a loaded 9mm handgun. according to the prosecutor.
On Friday, Brisker’s attorney filed a motion to dismiss a previous felony charge in 2015, but the motion was denied by the court. According to prosecutors, he was convicted of five felonies, two counts of robbery with a gun, one count of illegal possession of a gun by a felon, one count of home robbery with a gun and one count of aggravated home burglary with a gun.
