San Jose police said that an Independence High School student in August reported that a boys volleyball referee had sexually assaulted her after school in April 2022.

Jurors in the U.S. District Court in San Jose rejected claims by the widow of Jacob Dominguez that San Jose Police Officer Michael Pina had violated the shooting victim's Fourth and 14th Amendment rights.

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. 

During Sam Liccardo's City Hall reign, the SJPD went from 1,370 officers to 1151 authorized police positions and today can only field 961 street-ready officers, and hundreds more officers are planning on leaving over the next 24-months.

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.

Suspects in separate slayings on July 12 and July 15 were taken into custody without incident.

An elderly couple on North Capitol Avenue told officers that five to six men had entered their home, bound them with belts, brandished a handgun and violently assaulted them and stealng property and the family car.

The shootout in the 100 block of Bendorf Drive in San Jose followed a 9-mile chase from the scene of Tuesday evening killing in East San Jose.

Witnesses on the scene of the fire alerted arriving police officers to a person suspected of starting the fire., and he was arrested and charged with arson while firefighters fought to control the blaze.

The separate killings were the city's ninth and 10th homicides of the year.

The two suspects in custody were charged with the additional kidnapping counts at a May 12 bail hearing.

The victim's uncle, Rene Aaron Hernandez-Santos,19, and grandfather Rene Trigueros Hernandez, 59, were arrested Wednesday by the San José Police Department's Special Operations Division, MERGE Unit, and charged with felony child abuse in the 2021 death of Arely Naomi Proctor.

San Jose police and the IRS discover that Amanda Riley faked cancer to defraud victims out of more than $105,000.

The investigation linked Matthew Freudenblum, 24, of Sunnyvale to two different storage facilities as likely warehousing locations for stolen goods.

Jose Portillo and Yesenia Ramirez were charged with kidnapping in Santa Clara County Superior Court today and are being held without bail. A third suspect arrested on April 26, Baldomeo Sandoval, was released from custody and will not be charged, police said.

At a press conference late this morning, San Jose police said the three suspects in custody have some connection to the family of kidnapped 3-month-old Brandon Cuellar, taken from his home Monday afternoon.