OMAHA, Neb. -- A 31-year-old man was sentenced for robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. 

Jorge Lopez was sentenced to 2.5 years on a robbery charge and 7 years on a brandishing charge. After his release, Lopez will serve a 3-year term of supervised release. 

Officials said on July 1, 2022, officers responded to a radio call to Ground Floor Guitar in Omaha for an armed robbery.

The store owner told officers that two men entered the store separately before displaying a black handgun and robbing the store owner of cash and property, specifically several guitars and at least one amplifier. Various customers were also robbed by being instructed to “hand over their wallets.”

According to court documents, codefendant Marco Lopez, Jorge's cousin,  instructed all the victims to move down into the basement where he locked them and a dog into a bathroom, telling them not to come out or he would “shoot them,” while displaying a handgun.

The victims eventually left the bathroom and called 9-1-1.

On July 2, 2022, Omaha Police were responding to a tip related to a residential break-in, which identified codefendant Marco Lopez as a suspect.

Jorge Lopez was interviewed and admitted that both he and Marco Lopez had robbed the guitar store and that Marco took the cash and guitars with him to Texas when he left after the robbery.

Police searched the truck used in the robbery, finding a wallet belonging to one of the victims and other materials linking the truck to the robbery.

Marco Lopez was found and arrested in Texas before being extradited to Nebraska.

This case was investigated by the Omaha Police Department.