Crime & Safety
Teens Arrested For Armed Robbery At Peninsula Grocery Store: Police
Safeway employees told police that a man brandished a handgun while stealing alcohol.
REDWOOD CITY, CA — Two teenagers were arrested over the weekend in Redwood City on suspicion of brandishing a weapon while stealing alcohol from a grocery store, according to police.
Just before 1 p.m. Sunday, police were dispatched to a Safeway store at the Sequoia Station shopping center on El Camino Real on a report of an armed robbery. Safeway employees told police that a man brandished a handgun while stealing alcohol.
Officers viewed surveillance footage of the suspects and fanned out around the location.
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Eventually they found two people matching the descriptions in a parking garage on Marshall Street.
Arrested were Walter Gonzalez-Hernandez, 18, and a 17-year-old juvenile, both from Redwood City.
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Police allegedly found a lighter shaped like a handgun on Gonzalez-Hernandez, who was booked into the San Mateo County Jail on suspicion of robbery and conspiracy. The juvenile was taken to the Youth Services Center and booked on the same suspicions.
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