Second Suspect in French Valley Home Invasion Arrested

A second suspect in an alleged home invasion robbery last month in French Valley in which two women were bound—one pepper-sprayed—has been arrested, a sheriff's official announced today.

Donovan Marcus Cavin, 34, of Anaheim, was taken into custody at about 7 p.m. Thursday after he allegedly led law enforcement on a high-speed pursuit on Interstate 10 from Indio to Banning, said Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. K. McDonald, in a news release.

McDonald said Cavin, 6 foot 3 and 270 pounds, had been identified as the second suspect, but investigators had been unable to locate him following the

Investigators from the Southwest Sheriff's Station learned he was in Blythe. On their way there Thursday, Cavin was spotted driving westbound on Interstate 10 near Washington Avenue in Indio, McDonald said.

"The investigators contacted Riverside County Sheriff Deputies from the Thermal Station to stop the suspect vehicle. However, the suspect vehicle failed to stop for the marked patrol cars and fled westbound on the I-10 Freeway," McDonald said.

"Officers from the California Highway Patrol took over the pursuit and were able to stop the suspect vehicle at the I-10 Freeway and Sunset Avenue in Banning with the use of spike strips, and by boxing in the vehicle," the sergeant said.

Cavin was immediately taken into custody on suspicion of the home invasion robbery, as well as evading officers in the pursuit.

No one was injured in the arrest.

Cavin was being held at Southwest Detention Center near Murrieta on $150,000 bail.

The other suspect, at Southwest Detention Center.