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Serial bandit suspect captured in Rohnert Park


By LAURA NORTON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Published: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 8:42 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 7:39 p.m.

A man suspected of robbing six gas stations and an electronics store in Sonoma County in the past 13 days was arrested Friday evening in Rohnert Park.


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ROBBERY SUSPECT
Have you seen this man? Rohnert Park police have obtained an arrest warrant for Matthew Meehan, 25, of Rohnert Park. Santa Rosa police said he may also be responsible for some recent Santa Rosa robberies. Seven businesses have been robbed since Aug. 17:
—2:46 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29 — Chevron Station, 730 Stony Point Road, Santa Rosa
—5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27 — Union 76 Station, Farmers Lane and Hoen Avenue, Santa Rosa
—12:18 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27 — Shell Station, 255 Dutton Ave., Santa Rosa
—2:47 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23 — Digicom Wireless, 6285 Commerce Blvd., Rohnert Park
—1:38 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21 — Shell Station, 777 Steele Lane, Santa Rosa
—4:35 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19 — Valero Station, 175 Southwest Blvd., Rohnert Park
—8:05 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17 — Shell Station, 3453 Cleveland Ave., Santa Rosa

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Matthew Meehan, 25, was apprehended at about 6 p.m. during a felony traffic stop, said Rohnert Park Police Sgt. Art Sweeney.

Employees of the city’s public works department spotted Meehan and called 911, Sweeney said.

“Patrol converged on the area and initially didn’t spot him,” Sweeney said. “But then we got him in a big felony traffic stop.”

He did not say where the arrest occurred.

Rohnert Park and Santa Rosa police believe Meehan is responsible for a series of armed robberies, most recently a Chevron station robbery on Stony Point Road at about 2:30 a.m.Friday, said police Sgt. Lisa Banayat.

The preceding two robberies occurred Wednesday at a Shell station on Dutton Avenue and a Union 76 station on Farmers Lane, both in Santa Rosa.

In Rohnert Park, a gas station was robbed Aug. 19 and an electronics store on Aug. 23, and in Santa Rosa gas stations were robbed on Aug. 17 and 21.


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