REDWOOD CITY (KRON/BCN) — Two men were arrested in an armed robbery of a gas station in Redwood City on Tuesday night, police officials said Thursday.
Officers arrested 18-year-old Redwood City resident Isaac Cifuentes and 22-year-old Redwood City resident Rodolfo Molina following a robbery at a Gas & Shop station at 3139 Jefferson Ave.
Officers responded at 9:30 p.m. to a report of an in-progress armed robbery at the gas station, according to police.
The clerk told officers that a suspect entered the store wearing a mask over his face and was carrying a gun. The suspect pointed the gun at the clerk while telling him to open the cash register, police said.
The suspect then took an undisclosed amount of cash, according to police.
A witness told police that the suspect ran south on Alameda De Las Pulgas toward Wessex Way. A responding officer noticed a suspicious vehicle with two suspects inside and tried to stop the vehicle, a gray 2012 Honda Accord, but the driver drove away, police said.
The officer saw a suspect in the front right seat throw something out of the window near Madison Avenue and Sapphire Street, police said.
After continuing east on Madison Avenue, the Accord stopped and the front passenger, later identified as Cifuentes, ran from the vehicle.
Police said they were able to detain the driver, later identified as Molina.
Officers set up a perimeter and, with the help of a San Mateo County sheriff’s K-9, searched yard-to-yard for Cifuentes. He was eventually found hiding in the area of the 700 block of Topaz Street, according to police.
Cifuentes and Molina were booked into the county jail on suspicion of armed robbery and evading arrest.
Police said they recovered a replica handgun and a black ski mask they believe were thrown from the Accord.
The clerk, a 58-year-old San Bruno resident, was not injured in the robbery.