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SJPD shoots female suspect who threatened to kill family with an Uzi assault weapon

In recent months the San Jose Police Department has been on standby as numerous homicides have been reported. The shooting death of one San Jose woman assumed to have been

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The SJPD has arrested 3 individual suspects in the city’s 22nd homicide of 2014

Three people have been arrested in the stabbing death of 33-year-old San Jose resident Michael Maynard. According to Press Information Officer Albert Morales, “On July 29, 2014 at approximately 2:15 A.M.,

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Ponzi Ring targeted Latinos promising huge investment returns

Victor Chen, Deputy District Attorney of the Economic Crimes Unit reported this week that the Santa Clara DA’s Office, in alignment with law enforcement officers, busted several members of a

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Sunnyvale DPS identify homicide victim in Aug 2 shooting

SUNNYVALE, Calif – 20-year-old Ernesto Castro-Sanchez was shot and killed on Saturday, August 2 in the City of Sunnyvale. The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, which consists of police, fire

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Carjacking suspect claims police have the wrong person

SAN JOSE – 21-year-old Jose Eduardo Cortez was arrested for the crime of PC 215 – carjacking, and for PC 245 (a)(1) – assault with a deadly weapon. On July

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DA’s Office will not charge a Los Gatos man who accidentally left his infant son in car

SANTA CLARA COUNTY – After a careful review, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office stated it would not charge a Los Gatos man who accidentally left his infant son

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Drunk driver faces manslaughter charges for driving wrong way on freeway

SAN JOSE – 23-year-old Casey Matthew Olson of Mountain View was arrested under PC 191.5(a), gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, VC 21651 (c), driving the wrong way on a freeway,

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Male suspect jumps two stories from parking garage to try and escape

23-year-old Defendant Willie Visairo – a.k.a. Willie Visaibo – faces eight counts under PC 211-212.5(c), Second degree robbery, in which Visairo was found to be breaking into cars located in an apartment garage

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Murder suspect may have killed three more women prior to his shooting death by police

SUNNYVALE – On Thursday, June 5, Sunnyvale police shot and killed 53-year-old Glen Griggs while he held a pellet rifle, having refused to drop the weapon. Officers were serving a warrant for his

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Copper wire thief caught vandalizing city light poles

SAN JOSE – Bolivar Sanchez Lopez, 30, was remanded on $50,000 bail from charges under PC 484-487(a) – grand theft, PC 594(a)/(b)(1) – vandalism, PC 496 (a) – receiving or