DUI driver drove pickup into business, stole cash register money, released with ticket

January 24, 2022
DUI driver drove pickup into business, stole cash register money, released with ticket

Sonoma, CA – On January 22 at about 8:30 p.m., deputies were dispatched to a report of a pickup truck driven into a business in the 1400 block of Industrial Avenue, Sebastopol. They arrived and saw someone had driven a truck through the front of a business and stolen money from the cash register. The suspect was gone, but was later identified as Juan Moreno-Gonzalez, 32, Sebastopol. Moreno-Gonzalez also had a misdemeanor warrant for driving under the influence.

Deputies started an investigation and learned the truck had been stolen from the same business earlier that day. Moreno-Gonzalez had stolen the keys and drove the truck away at about 3:30 p.m. Deputies issued a county-wide notice to law enforcement agencies with Moreno’s information and probable cause to arrest him. The next afternoon, after reviewing that notice, a deputy found Moreno-Gonzalez at his home and arrested him without incident.

Moreno-Gonzalez was booked into jail on three felonies: burglary, vandalism, and vehicle theft. Due to the zero-dollar bail schedule, he was released on a citation.