Berkeley Armed Robbery Suspect Arrested: Cops

BERKELEY, CA — A suspect was arrested last month in connection with a November armed robbery, Berkeley police said.

The suspect, identified as a 44-year-old Oakland man, was arrested Dec. 14 and charged the next day by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office with robbery, carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle and several enhancements, police said.

On Nov. 29 at around 4:10 p.m. the suspect pulled a gun on a man in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant near the San Pablo Avenue/Delaware Street intersection, police said.

The suspect took the man’s cash and drove off in an SUV, police said.

Officers identified the suspect after interviewing witnesses and reviewing video surveillance footage, police said.

Officers found an unserialized “ghost gun” in the driver’s seat of the suspect’s vehicle when they arrested him in the parking lot of an Emeryville card club, police said.

Officers found an additional unserialized handgun, a high-capacity magazine and cloths worn during the Nov. 29 robbery, police said.