Armed road rage suspect arrested after Berkeley Flock hit
The pair recorded the angry driver "giving them the middle finger" as he passed them at Telegraph Avenue and Dwight Way, Berkeley police wrote.
A man with a gun who threatened to shoot two strangers in the busy neighborhood near UC Berkeley was later arrested due to a Flock alert, court papers show.
Berkeley police arrested Juan Carlos Suarez Cisneros in late July after getting an alert from their Flock license plate reader system that his blue Toyota Prius was near Willard Park, according to court records.
BPD had been looking for Suarez since early July when two people reported that a driver in a blue Prius had pointed a gun at them and threatened them on the street.
The pair recorded the angry driver "giving them the middle finger" as he passed them at Telegraph Avenue and Dwight Way on July 6 at about 1:45 p.m., police wrote in charging papers.
BPD was able to identify Suarez, who lives in Oakland, through his auto and DMV records, authorities said.
They determined that he had two registered pistols, BPD wrote, along with several arrests and a misdemeanor conviction for having brandished a gun.
Juan Carlos Suarez Cisneros. BPD
When police pulled him over on July 20, Suarez had a loaded Glock in the pocket of his hoody, BPD wrote.
According to police, Suarez admitted he had given the pair the finger while driving his Prius earlier in the month.
On July 23, the Alameda County district attorney's office charged Suarez with six felonies: two counts of assault with a firearm (one for each victim); criminal threats; two counts of carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle; and carrying a loaded firearm in public, according to charging papers.
His bail was set at $150,000 and, as of this week, he was no longer in custody.
Suarez is set for a preliminary hearing, where a judge determines if a case can proceed to trial, in September.
Update, Aug. 12: A booking photograph has been added to this story.
