According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Lopez, Gonzalez and associates robbed and attempted to rob individuals leaving casinos on at least 12 occasions, including three on a single night. They took a total of at least $274,000 in cash, casino chips and other property.<\/p>\n
In October 2023, the defendants followed a victim around the Hustler Casino in Gardena, watching as the man cashed out $11,000 in chips and left the casino. As the victim drove home on the Harbor (110) Freeway on-ramp from Redondo Beach Boulevard, the defendants stopped the man’s car, pointed a gun at him and robbed him, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Before another incident, Lopez is seen on casino surveillance video celebrating a gambling victory with a victim he was scouting, including high-fiving the woman after the win, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Within an hour, Lopez’s co-conspirators had blocked her vehicle, brandished firearms and stolen $21,000 in cash. In a separate incident, Lopez, Gonzalez and co-conspirators stole at least $130,000 in casino winnings from someone else, federal prosecutors stated.<\/p>\n
Officials said Lopez was in possession of three firearms and more than 30 rounds of ammunition found at his home in December 2023. Lopez is not legally permitted to possess a firearm or ammunition because his criminal history includes a conviction in San Bernardino Superior Court for grand theft in November 2023 during the robbery spree, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Lopez, Gonzalez and associates robbed and attempted to rob individuals leaving casinos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-432419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432419","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=432419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}