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Menlo Park Suspect Arrested For Brandishing A Firearm

Officers responded and surrounded the area before making contact with the suspect at his apartment.

February 8, 2020

On February 7, 2020, at about 11:36 a.m., police dispatch received a call of a man with a gun near the 1100 block of Laurel Street. According to the reporting party, the suspect had brandished a shotgun at them. Officers responded and surrounded the area before making contact with the suspect at his apartment. A security sweep of the apartment revealed that the suspect was in possession of a shotgun. The firearm was taken as evidence, the suspect Donald Matthews of Menlo Park was arrested, cited and released for a violation of Penal Code section 417(a)(2) – brandishing of a firearm.

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