For the third time in two months, Calvin Howse Jr., 18, is back in jail, this time on 14 new criminal charges that include aggravated robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, felony gun possession, and assault against police officers.
Violent Crimes detectives Thursday afternoon located and arrested Howse after identifying him as a suspect in the August 14 carjacking of a Dodge Charger from the Minerva nightclub on Buchanan Street. The Charger was recovered the following day on S. 8th Street. Surveillance cameras in the area showed that Howse was the driver who parked the car. A check of the GPS coordinates from the court-ordered ankle monitor Howse was wearing as a result of his recent prior arrests showed that he was at the scene at the time of the carjacking.
On Thursday, Howse was driving a Kia Optima that was stolen from Crouch Drive on the same day as the carjacking. The car came under surveillance by detectives and an MNPD helicopter. It was followed to Skyview Apartments on Susannah Court. Howse bailed from the car upon seeing police. Detectives quickly located him sitting in the breezeway of one of the apartment buildings. A loaded semi-automatic pistol was concealed in his chair. Howse was also found to possess heroin and ecstasy. He started spitting on police officers as he was being taken to jail.
Just prior to officers locating Howse in the Kia, three persons attempted to steal a car on N. 7th Street and fired a shot when the owner intervened. Howse was subsequently identified by the victim as taking part in that crime, which was also confirmed by the ankle monitor GPS coordinates. The two co-defendants in that case, Tywan Lyons, 19, and a 17-year-old were also arrested at Skyview Apartments. They arrived in a Dodge Ram pickup truck that was stolen a short time earlier from N. 7th Street. Lyons is charged with auto burglary, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, gun theft, auto theft and joyriding ($118,000 bond). The 17-year-old is charged with evading arrest, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, vehicle theft, and resisting a police stop.
Howse is now being held in lieu of $300,000 bond.
He was free on bond and on an ankle monitor as the result of his arrest on June 27 on charges of vehicle theft, felony marijuana possession, felony gun possession, and driving on a suspended license; a charge of auto burglary placed on July 11; and his arrest on July 15 on charges of gun theft and evading arrest.
