Teens arrested for armed robbery at Peninsula grocery store

REDWOOD CITY, CA – Two teenagers were arrested in Redwood City over the weekend on suspicion of brandishing a gun while stealing alcohol from a convenience store, according to police.

Shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday, police were dispatched to a Safeway store in 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.

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Officers viewed surveillance footage of the suspects and fanned out from the area.

They eventually found two people matching the descriptions in a parking garage on Marshall Street.

Arrested were 18-year-old Walter Gonzalez-Hernandez and a 17-year-old juvenile, both of Redwood City.

Police allegedly found a handgun-shaped lighter on Gonzalez-Hernandez, who was booked into the San Mateo County Jail on suspicion of robbery and conspiracy. The teenager was taken to the youth welfare facility on the same suspicion and brought to court there.

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