Man Fleeing With Hostage Arrested; 2 Others Sought : Crime: The three knock on a door asking for water, then pull guns and search home. A woman is briefly held at gunpoint before man surrenders. No one is hurt.

A man accused of holding a woman hostage at gunpoint as he tried to flee from a Santa Ana home was in custody Thursday, and police were seeking his two accomplices.

Luis Ramirez Gonzalez, 21, of La Puente was arrested on suspicion of robbery, kidnaping and aggravated assault, said Lt. Robert Helton, a San Ana police spokesman.

The three men knocked on the door of the home in the 800 block of North Minter Street about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and asked for a drink of water, said victim Alicia Mesa, 30, who didn’t want her last name used.

But when they came inside, “they told us not to move,” she said Thursday in Spanish, adding that they drew “big, ugly-looking green” weapons.

Alicia Mesa, Ana Maria Loya, 22, and Loya’s 2-year-old daughter had been visiting the past two days from Redwood City with Loya’s sister and brother at that address, she said.

“My friend (Loya) started to scream, and they told everyone to be quiet,” the Alicia Mesa said. “They said nothing about what they wanted. But after they drew their guns, they went room to room, looking for something. We didn’t know what, maybe money or something. But they never told us.”

One man stood watch inside the front door, she said, while another kept his gun trained at Loya near the back door.

But a suspicious neighbor had called police, and an officer who happened to be nearby arrived almost immediately.

Seeing him drive up, the robbers became confused and started yelling at each other and at their victims, Alicia Mesa said. They argued whether they should stay or run.

They nervously kept looking out the front window as the officer approached. Suddenly, she said, two of the intruders ran out the back door, but not before taking immigration papers and $200 from Loya’s sister, 30-year-old Josefina Loya.

“One of the men returned from the back of the home where he was going through each of the rooms and said, ‘Where are my friends?’ ” the other woman recounted. “We told him they left and he got mad. We said maybe he should leave too and he said, ‘Shut up, stupid, or I’ll kill you!’ ”

The man then looked at the 2-year-old and said, “Give me the girl. Give me the girl,” she said. Ana Maria Loya pleaded with him not to, and he then took Alicia Mesa hostage.

The man, whom police later identified as Gonzalez, held a gun to the victim’s head and led her out the front door, Helton said.

Gonzalez refused orders from the officer to release the hostage, and continued walking with her for about two blocks, Helton said. He finally surrendered her without incident.