In July 2021, a photograph went viral of a lady leaning out of the window of a Cadillac CTS holding an AK-47 whereas collaborating in an unlawful sideshow occasion in San Francisco. Quick ahead two years and authorities have arrested the person who was behind the wheel.

Police raided the home of Christopher Gonzalez-Nuñez in June and located three weapons, two of which had been handguns with out serial numbers. Additionally they discovered ammunition in a backpack that was thrown over a fence. Gonzalez-Nuñez has been beforehand charged with battery and arrested for assault, theft, and home violence.

Police initially seized the CTS used within the viral sideshow picture again in August 2021. Authorities had been capable of monitor him down as the motive force as he was tagged in Instagram images of the incident, SF Gate stories.

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“Not solely does the automotive match a automobile that Gonzalez-Nuñez owned on the time, however Instagram customers tagged him in images from the incident and talked about him by title,” assistant U.S. lawyer Leif Dautch stated. “Maybe most tellingly, Gonzalez-Nuñez posted a photograph on his Instagram account of what seems to be him sporting a T-shirt depicting his vital different leaning out of his automotive holding the gun.”

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The fees introduced towards Gonzalez- Nuñez aren’t associated to the sideshow incident however had images not rapidly unfold on-line as they did, police might have had a more durable time monitoring him down.

Unlawful sideshows have change into a rising drawback in San Francisco, and different areas of California, over the previous few years. In Could, police in San Francisco seized two Chevrolet Corvettes and a Ford Mustang concerned in a sideshow occasion on April 15. This incident occurred simply a few weeks earlier than police seized 80 automobiles in a separate sideshow in Oakland, California the place a silver Nissan 370Z was burned to the bottom.