Four months after a group of men allegedly cornered a victim at gunpoint in a Petaluma parking lot, investigators say they finally cracked the case open — and what they found inside multiple residences last Wednesday included a ghost assault rifle, four other illegal handguns, narcotics, and a disassembled stolen vehicle. Four suspects, including a 17-year-old, now face a sprawling list of felony charges tied to both the original confrontation and the criminal enterprise investigators say grew around it.
The case began on April 7, when police say four suspects confronted a single victim in a parking lot in the 1000 block of Petaluma Boulevard North just after 1 PM, allegedly threatening him while displaying a handgun. According to the Petaluma Police Department, detectives spent months piecing together what happened by reviewing dispatch records, body-worn camera footage, witness statements, surveillance video, and automated license plate reader data before establishing probable cause that the suspects had acted together to locate, intimidate, and threaten the victim with a firearm.
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