(KRON) — Two people are in custody and four suspects remain at large following an armed robbery at Gold Rush Jewelers in Petaluma Saturday.
The robbery happened around 4:46 p.m., around the time a car drove through the front of the jewelry store at 385 south McDowell Blvd., according to the Petaluma Police Department.
“Officers responded and learned six suspects entered the business armed with hammers, pepper spray, and a firearm,” Petaluma PD said. “They began breaking the glass of the display cases and removing jewelry while one suspect held employees up at gunpoint.”
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One of the suspects allegedly pepper sprayed a witness during the getaway. Four of the suspects drove away from the scene in a car reported stolen in Brentwood, police said. The car was later found abandoned in a nearby neighborhood. Two of the suspects ran from the robbery on foot and were later captured by police with help from witnesses and a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department helicopter.
The arrested suspects are 18-year-old William Clarence Butler of Pittsburg and Moshae Koron Howell of Antioch. The suspects were booked into the Sonoma County jail on charges of robbery, burglary, battery of a person, assault with a firearm, exhibiting a firearm in a threatening manner and conspiracy.
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The jewelry store employees were not injured in the robbery. The pepper-sprayed witness was treated for minor injuries.