San Jose detectives used city Automated License Plate Reader cameras and identified two Oakland men as the two primary suspects in a May 31 homicide.

Denis Shevchenko of Gilroy was sentenced to five years in federal prison for possession of child pornography, five years after officers discovered the images while investigating threats to kill police officers.

The former assistant principal at Sunrise Middle School, Ruben Guzman, was one of 29 suspects arrested in connection with actions by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Human Trafficking Task Force leading up to the Feb. 8 Super Bowl.

Two Texas men had posed as delivery workers to conduct multiple crimes in the South Bay, police said.

The Sheriff’s Office reported on Monday that after it learned that one of its deputies had been arrested on Saturday by San Jose detectives, the deputy was placed on administrative leave while the matter is reviewed.

In San Jose, license plate cameras were credited with finding suspects in the manhunt for an armed burglar who was terrorizing a neighborhood, and with locating eight suspects in a fatal shooting in downtown San Jose during the June FIFA World Cup.

Six of the suspects, including a 17-year-old juvenile, were charged with murder, while two others, including an 18-year-old female, were arrested for being accessories after the fact. All are from San Jose.

A minor under the direct supervision of law enforcement stood outside of a liquor or convenience store and asked customers to buy them alcohol.

The robbery suspect killed in a shootout with San Jose police, Anthony Chavez, committed four armed robberies in 2011 and was sentenced in 2016 to 23 years in prison. Then he was re-sentenced, and paroled last year.

The entire incident was captured on a home security camera.

Brandon Sanchez, Deputy Chief of Field Operations for San Jose, is a second-generation law enforcement officer with more than 26 years of experience in command-level leadership, patrol, investigations, administration, internal affairs, criminal intelligence, and homeland security training.

The men were indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco for conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, attempted robbery, and attempted kidnapping.

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 attacks in December 2022 and January 2023 caused property damage and widespread power outages.

When detectives located and arrested one adult male and the two 16-year-olds at a San Jose residence, they found a loaded firearm, large quantities of narcotics and two homemade improvised explosive devices.

If the case against the 17-year-old suspect continues in juvenile court, few details about the arrest or the Nov. 28 incident, which shut down Northern California's biggest shopping center and left three injured, are likely to be made public. The mall reopened with additional security measures on Nov. 29.