Man charged with carjacking 2 cannabis delivery drivers
May 16, 2025
Berkeley police say Larue Henderson carjacked both drivers in April and took nearly $10,000 in cannabis products from them.
Detectives used phone records and Flock camera data to ID a suspect in the recent carjacking of two cannabis delivery drivers in Berkeley, court papers show.
The first incident took place April 11 on Virginia Gardens, a small block just west of Franklin Street, between Virginia and Cedar streets in northwest Berkeley.
According to court papers, a cannabis delivery driver was in the area to drop off an order when a stranger walked up to him and put a gun to his head shortly after 3 a.m.
The suspect ordered the man to get out of his vehicle and, when he did, the gunman drove off, taking the driver’s cellphone as well as marijuana products that were inside, Berkeley police wrote.
Police later found the stolen vehicle dumped in the neighborhood.
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Less than two weeks later, detectives were sent to investigate another carjacking at gunpoint, this time in the 3000 block of Stanton Street, about 2 miles away in southwest Berkeley.
As with the earlier incident, the driver had been sent to drop off an order.
While waiting to make the delivery at about 8 p.m., a man with a gun walked up to him, put the gun’s muzzle to his head and ordered him out of the vehicle, threatening to shoot him if he didn’t comply, BPD said.
That night, the carjacker took the vehicle, as well as $2,000 in cash and “an unknown amount of cannabis products” that were in the car, police wrote in court papers.
The carjacker ditched the vehicle in the 1400 block of Russell Street, where officers found it the next morning, BPD wrote.
As they worked on the case, Berkeley police determined that the same customer profile, for a woman with an out-of-state ID, had placed both orders. The information turned out to be a dead end.
But a phone number linked to one of the orders helped them identify a 26-year-old Alameda man named Larue Henderson as the suspect in the case, police wrote.
They also determined that a car Henderson had access to had been in the area of the April 22 carjacking shortly before it happened, authorities wrote.
According to booking records, police arrested Henderson on Tuesday evening in Alameda.
On Friday afternoon, the Alameda County district attorney’s office charged Henderson with both armed carjackings as well as receiving stolen property — described as $9,800 in marijuana and marijuana products — and two counts of resisting arrest, according to charging documents.
Henderson’s bail was set at $420,000 and he is set for arraignment Monday, according to court records.
He has no other criminal cases listed in Alameda County.
The Scanner has asked Berkeley police for a booking photo and add it to this story if it becomes available.
Carjackings are infrequent occurrences in Berkeley. There have been only been five reported this year, according to recent BPD data.
Last year at this time, there had been only three carjacking reports.
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