Prosecutors said suspect Markus Beck had been asked to leave Luigi Aprea Elementary; officers discovered a gas leak inside his home.

Over 45 terrifying minutes in March 2023, Eliobert Gonzalez repeatedly threatened to kill the San Jose family and cut off their heads if they didn’t help him get back into his old apartment.

The defendants, most from Los Angeles, agreed to pay more than $8.3 million in restitution, the largest lump sum restitution recovery for victims in a Santa Clara County insurance fraud case.

The DA task force had been focusing on disarming people ordered by the court to not have guns, but this was the first seizure of a weapons arsenal.

Two Vietnamese-American women face felony charges for illegally importing langsat, a tropical fruit, some of which was badly infested with fruit fly larvae, which pose dangers for California crops.

Police reported that Alex Albetria, 63, collapsed after restraining a violent intruder at Villa Fontana in West San Jose last December, then died at a local hospital.

After being contacted by the District Attorney’s Office, Granite Rock installed water treatment systems along Coyote Creek and agreed to five years training, testing and oversight conditions.   

Police say that when gun owners surrender unwanted guns at the South County Gun Buyback event at the Morgan Hill Outdoor Sports Center, no questions will be asked about who owns the guns or where they came from.

Wendy Wong ran a Milpitas business called House of Aloha Hawaii, which came to an end in August 2019 as a long line of victims came forward to report their ruined vacation plans and $200,000 in missing money.

Robert Seth Carter, 32, was shot and killed on Jan. 19 after he unsuccessfully attempted to carjack someone on Monroe Street and then T-boned another car while armed in the intersection of Park Avenue and W. Hedding Street. 

Experts said the shooting of David Tovar Jr. during an arrest attempt in 2021, while lawful, was "flawed" because police bullets hit occupied apartments nearby.

Investigation by Santa Clara County's cold case unit and Mountain View police led to the July 9 arrest of John Kevin Woodward at JFK airport in New York City for the strangulation murder of Laurie Houts 30 years ago. Woodward will stand trial for a third time in the case.

Police said Bryan Velasquez was escalating his cyber stalking of former co-workers, including posting pictures of himself pointing firearms on social media [and] sending e-mails with threats littered with profanity.

James Robert Cannon, 63, of San Jose, faces charges that he touched a teenage piano student in an appropriate sexual manner.

San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata said 32-year-old Robert Carter died in a gunfight with officers after a crime spree that ended when four officers opened fire on him.

Prosecutors said Shannon O’Connor, 47, who now lives in Eagle, Idaho, bought liquor, provided condoms and watched instances of sexual assault involving 14- and 15-year-olds at multiple parties at her Los Gatos home over an 11-month period, beginning in June 2020.