Three suspects have been arrested by Menlo Park police in a strong-arm robbery that resembled a rash of gold necklace robberies on the Peninsula.
The police said on a new release that two men attacked a group of four people walking in a residential neighborhood and one of the suspects ripped a gold necklace off from a victim's neck. The three suspects were identified as Aaron Martinez, 18, Miguel Zamora, 19, and Antonio Sotelo Lozano, 18, by detectives.
Sotelo Lozano was already in the jail in connection with gold necklace robbery in Mountain View. Detectives are investigating if the group is linked to similar strong-arm gold necklace robberies in Santa Clara counties. Mountain View police said that Sotelo-Lozano escaped in a truck after a gold necklace robbery on Villa Street.