The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office found that CarMax had a pattern over the last five years of late transfers of ownership on used cars bought by customers.
Shannon O’Connor was found guilty of hosting alcohol-fueled parties for teenagers—mostly 14 and 15-year-olds—during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic, where she supplied vodka and whiskey and encouraged sexual acts.
DNA evidence from East San Jose house where 84-year-old Alice Sharitz was murdered in 1997 led to the December arrest of 74-year-old Joe Contreras in Oregon.
The “Operation Family Ties” investigation began in June 2025 when a Morgan Hill police officer became suspicious of one of the defendants applying to open a massage parlor under another individual’s name.
The mayor’s newsletter comments came nine days after the shooting, allegedly by a 17-year-old, at Westfield Valley Fair shopping mall that wounded three people.
After a jury convicted Paul Zumot in 2011, the hookah shop owner was sentenced to 33 years to life in prison. However, a federal district court judge in 2020 granted him a new trial.
The former manager of Bear Creek Stables in Los Gatos, a popular South Bay horse riding ranch, was accused of failing to care for a horse that died from malnutrition and heat stroke last year.
Obdulia Banuelos-Esparza avoids jail time and will have to pay $40,000 in restitution in a plea bargaining deal for demanding cash from a security firm in exchange for a fairgrounds contract.
Harry “Nicky” Nickerson, 16-years-old at the time, stabbed Diane Peterson in 1978 at Branham High School. Just this year, investigators learned that he had confessed the killing to a family member. Nickerson took his own life in 1993.
San Jose Fire Capt. Mark Moalem is accused of stealing controlled medications, including morphine, that are typically used by paramedics to treat the ill or injured in emergencies.
The convictions of Omar Torres stole the headlines from Election Day voting to replace the former council member, who resigned in November shortly before his arrest.
Police said Robert Rivera Jr.’s refusal to drop his gun, and deliberate motion pointing his firearm in the direction of officers made clear his intent that night was ‘to commit suicide by cop.’
