STOCKTON — The University of the Pacific women’s basketball program has cut ties with a player who was arrested earlier this week in connection with a home-invasion robbery in Stockton.

Ariana Vaughn, 19, a former all-state basketball standout at Brookside Christian High School, was one of three females arrested on suspicion of robbery of an inhabited dwelling, burglary and kidnapping to commit robbery, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said. Vaughn is being held at San Joaquin County Jail on $600,000 bail, according to jail records.

The robbery occurred about 11 p.m. Sunday in the 10200 block of Hildreth Lane in the Morada area of northeast Stockton. A group of male suspects who participated in the robbery have not been located, authorities said.

According to investigators, one of the robbery victims, a man who had returned to Stockton from college, met up with two of his former high school classmates and a third female he did not know. The females accompanied the victim to his parents’ home on Hildreth Lane.

Shortly after the victim’s parents went to bed, one of the females indicated that she was going to use the bathroom, but instead she went outside to the front of the residence, authorities said. The victim grew suspicious because the female who went outside had looked through the front window several times throughout the night.

When the victim followed the female outside, he was confronted by four masked men who were holding guns, the Sheriff’s Office said. One of the men pepper sprayed the victim and ordered him back into the house at gunpoint. The victim was forced into his parents’ bedroom, where the intruders pepper sprayed his parents and demanded their valuables.

The intruders stole six firearms, wallets, a purse and a cellphone, authorities said. When the male intruders fled through the front door, the females fled with them. Investigators believe they all left together.

On Monday, the Sheriff’s Office arrested Vaughn, 20-year-old Johnnisha Hunter and a 17-year-old girl, whose name was not released because she is a juvenile, in connection with the robbery. The investigation and the search for the male suspects is ongoing, said Deputy Les Garcia, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office.

Vaughn was a key member of a Brookside Christian girls basketball team that captured three consecutive Sac-Joaquin Section championships and won a Division V state championship in 2012. She was a first-team Division V all-state selection as a senior.

Vaughn signed a national letter of intent to attend University of the Pacific on a basketball scholarship in November 2014. She sat out the 2015-16 season after undergoing knee surgery, which prevented her from practicing with or playing for the Tigers.

Vaughn was indefinitely suspended from the women’s basketball program May 6 for an unspecified violation of team rules, university officials said. Director of Athletics Ted Leland and women’s basketball coach Bradley Davis said Friday that Vaughn has been kicked off the team in response to her arrest.

“We are extremely disappointed in the situation that has unfolded in recent days and sympathize with the victims,” Leland said in a written statement. “We hold ourselves to very high standards and will do everything in our power to do what is in the best interest of our student-athletes and our program as more information becomes available.”

Que Ngo, who coached Vaughn for five years, including her first three years at Brookside Christian, said he was saddened to hear she had been arrested.

“I’m in shock,” Ngo said. “She was a good kid with me when I was at Brookside. She never really gave me any problems. She was growing pretty strongly as a young lady, and I was excited that she went to (Pacific) with the coaching staff and the tradition there.

"I just hope that she has good guidance, and I hope somebody can help her to make better decisions in the future.”

— Contact reporter Jason Anderson at (209) 546-8279 or janderson@recordnet.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/crimeblog and on Twitter @Stockton911.