Santa Rosa police say man pulled gun on officer

A 21-year-old Santa Rosa man was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of pulling a revolver while fleeing from a police officer.

Angel Santiago-Hernandez, who police describe as a “known gang participant,” was booked into the Sonoma County Jail on charges that include assaulting a peace officer with a weapon, resisting arrest with violence and possession of a loaded firearm to commit a felony. Bail was set at $215,000.

The arrest came shortly after 2 a.m. when police responded to a report of people fighting in the 2000 block of Sebastopol Road.

En route officers were told to watch for a man with a gun in his waistband running from the fight. An officer located a man who matched that description, but the man began to run and reached into his waistband, according to a police press release.

The man “pulled a gun out of his waistband and started to raise it up into the air toward the direction of the officer,” the press release stated. “The officer believed the suspect was going (to) use the firearm and immediately took cover behind a vehicle.”

The man threw the revolver into a nearby shrub and ran away, but other officers caught him, took him to the ground and arrested him. Police found the discarded weapon, a loaded .357-caliber revolver.