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Santa Clara

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

Santa Clara

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

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Hit-and-run driver’s vehicle found two miles from the scene of the collision

25-year-old Richard Zargoza was charged with a felony complaint for a felony warrant that was signed out of Santa Clara County on April 29, 2014. The arrest warrant was set

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Arrest made after a records check revealed an oustanding search warrant

On July 13 the San Jose Police Department arrested 28-year-old Matthew Conrad Castillo and 35-year-old Daniel Marcial Cardenas on an outstanding arrest warrant for narcotics and possession of an illegal