Surf shop robber gets life in prison after involvement in $10 theft
SANTA CRUZ - A Watsonville gang member with criminal record dating back 14
years will serve a sentence of 35 years to life in prison Thursday after a
jury convicted him last month of robbing the La Selva Beach Surf Shop in
June 2009, the District Attorney's Office reported.
Martin "Fester" Tapia-Reyes, 35, acted as a lookout in the doorway of the
shop during the mid-Sunday morning robbery while an accomplice took $10 from
the re