WESTMINSTER, CA \u2014 A 31-year-old man suspected of two separate but similar armed robberies at convenience stores in Orange County was taken into custody Thursday. <\/p>\n
Gabriel Sanchez was arrested on Thursday and booked into the Orange County Jail on suspicion of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, use of a firearm during a felony and illegal possession of an assault weapon, according to the Westminster Police Department.<\/p>\n
Detectives responded to two robberies at convenience stores in mid-January days apart from each other, police said. <\/p>\n
Investigators obtained surveillance video from both robberies, identifying the same suspect responsible for both offenses.<\/p>\n
“In each robbery, the suspect was seen carrying an assault style rifle under a towel and pointing it at the employee, demanding money,” police said.<\/p>\n
Several search warrants were served after Sanchez was taken into custody, where detectives recovered an AR-15-style assault rifle as evidence.<\/p>\n
Police said detectives said they believe the two robberies may be connected and that additional robberies may have been committed under similar circumstances.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the robberies was urged to call Westminster Police Department Detective Figueroa at 714-548-3783 or the watch commander at 714-548-3767. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Orange County Crime Stoppers at 855-TIP-OCCS or visit occrimestopper.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTMINSTER, CA \u2014 A 31-year-old man suspected of two separate but similar armed robberies at convenience stores in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-156799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}