On 3-9-2013, at about 8:07 PM, officers were sent to a home in southeast Amarillo to investigate an attempted personal robbery. The victim, a female age 39, told officers that she was in the drive through line of a Sonic Drive In at 2220 S. Ross when a man tried to rob her. What was described as a blue or purple Chevrolet Lumina pulled in behind her and did not stop to order. The driver, a Hispanic male, got out of the car and approached her driver’s side window. He was wearing a white baseball cap and a dark jacket. He produced a handgun from his waistband, pressed it against her shoulder, and demanded her wallet. She told him that she did not have a wallet. The man then pulled back the slide of the handgun as to load it and demanded that she give him what she had. She began honking the car’s horn and yelling. The suspect got back into his car and drove away. The victim was not injured and nothing was taken.
Investigators developed a lead on the suspect and he was identified. On 3-19-2013, the 47th District Attorney’s Office accepted charges of aggravated robbery under complaint #66850-Z on Michael Anthony Medrano HM 25 of Amarillo. On 5-15-13, investigators got a lead on his location. APD COPPS Unit officers found Medrano at a home in the 700 block of N. Garfield. He was arrested without incident and booked into the Potter County Detention Center.
