Last Suspect in Robbery Spree Surrenders
The last of four suspects in a two-month spree of convenience store armed robberies gave himself up Saturday morning at the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Valley station.
Escorted by his father and girlfriend, Leo Roldan, 23, of Canoga Park, surrendered to officers at the station’s front desk at 10:30 a.m., Sgt. Dan Mastro said.
Three other suspects were arrested individually over the past week and a half after members of the division’s Special Problems Unit identified them through eyewitness accounts, Mastro said. They are Gilbert Gamboa, 21, John Carlson, 20, and Carlos Cardenas, 18, all of Canoga Park.
Mastro said the four were all gang members who had terrorized Canoga Park merchants for two months in a series of 14 armed robberies, primarily of 7-Eleven stores.
“They were killing us out there,” he said.
Cardenas, Carlson and Gamboa were charged with armed robbery and were being held at Los Angeles County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail each.
Bail was set at $310,000 for Roldan, who remained in the West Valley Jail pending his arraignment, Mastro said.
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