Gun recovered from Juan Carlos Lopez (Santa Rosa Police)
Santa Rosa Police have arrested a man suspected of robbing a gas station with a gun. The robbery happened at a gas station store in the 200 block of Dutton Avenue on Wednesday morning. A masked suspect armed with a handgun robbed a store employee who gave him an undisclosed amount of cash before fleeing on a bicycle riding east on the Joe Rodota Trail. Police later found the suspect, Juan Carlos Lopez, in the area of Wilson Avenue and 5th Street. They would find his discarded clothing, a mask, the bag of money from the gas station, and a handgun on the Prince Memorial Greenway under the Pierson Street bridge.
The firearm used in this robbery was a privately manufactured firearm, commonly referred to as a “ghost gun.”It was an unserialized 9mm firearm loaded with 27 rounds of ammunition in an extended magazine and one round in the chamber.