The DA's Cold Case Unit said the body of Jeanette Ralston, then 24-years-old and living in San Mateo, was found in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle near a San Jose apartment complex in 1977. Police said she had been strangled and raped, and the killer had tried unsuccessfully to burn the car.

The hardware giant’s stores in Santa Clara County were burglarized at least 15 times. A Home Depot in Emeryville was hit 24 times.

One of the murder victims had left a chilling message on Facebook one day before his body was found, identifying the man who would be arrested for his murder.

Jairon Escobar, owner and operator of Radiator & Body Parts in San Jose, was charged with jacking up an insurance damage estimate on a “newly purchased” bait car with a single dent to include thousands in damages that did not exist. 

Before he was fatally wounded by Campbell Police Sgt. Najib Magee, Miguel Gomez, 31, was trying to rush into a bedroom with two small cowering children and trying to shoot fellow Officer Stevie Munoz.

Dennis Fountaine, convicted in May defrauding four victims of over $350,000 never showed up for his Aug. 5 sentencing in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

All three defendants – Matthew Farris, 36, Jereh Lubrin, 37 and Rafael Rodriguez, 40 – admitted to voluntary manslaughter, seven years after being convicted of second-degree murder and two years after those convictions were overturned by an appellate court.

Judge sentences business owner to jail term after partner avoids jail with a guilty plea for illegally smuggling fruit from Vietnam.

After a four-year investigation, police concluded that a 54-year-old school janitor had sexually molested boys at his home in Morgan Hill after North Valley Baptist Church outings at Anderson Lake over a 10-year period.

The grants come from the district attorney’s Asset Forfeiture Fund, which is money seized from gangs, drug traffickers and criminal organizations, with the goal of helping to repair some of the harm caused by those criminal enterprises.

The lawsuit filed in part by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office alleged false advertising and automatic renewal of customer subscriptions.

Thomas Truong was fired by Farmers Insurance after an insurance investigator uncovered the fraud.

Two men have been charged with multiple felonies as “financial predators” for bilking unsuspecting investors of more than $2.3 million for phony business deals.

Prosecutors said Aremendariz late last week pleaded guilty to four felonies for selling drugs to minors, misdemeanors for possession of ammunition by a prohibited person, possession of fentanyl and two-strike prior offenses.

Martin Helda pleaded guilty to three fraud counts, including Workers Compensation Premium Fraud, Employment Development Department fraud and wage theft.

The seemingly random attack against strangers left three people dead and seven wounded before police found a bloody Kevin Parkourana hiding in a delivery van outside of a Milpitas Smart & Final.