GARDEN GROVE — A 52-year-old Garden Grove man has been arrested on suspicion of multiple robberies in the city and elsewhere in Orange County, police said Wednesday.

David Zamarripa was arrested Tuesday, according to Garden Grove Police Department Sgt. Nick Jensen.

Police were investigating a string of armed robberies since the start of the year and noticed that five of them had similar characteristics, police said.

Detectives contacted law enforcement agencies elsewhere in the county and learned there were three more outside of Garden Grove that matched the same method of operation, police said.

Police arrested the suspect, who was under surveillance, as he was leaving a motel in Garden Grove. Police say they have recovered some evidence from the robberies as well as a possible weapon used in the holdups.