Prosecutors said Ray Fitzgerald Montgomery, 59, violently assaulted and strangled a 42-year-old woman in 2024 in his home.

The officer, who was struck by a bullet fired from an arm’s length away, has since recovered from the injuries and is back on duty.

Sunnyvale police said Brian Burke drove drunk the wrong way down a Sunnyvale highway earlier this month and killed a 52-year-old Mountain View woman on her way home from work.

San Jose police believe the attack was a hate crime. The attackers yelled antisemitic messages while attacking two men after hearing them speaking Hebrew, according to witness statements to police.

The bank admitted to making unreasonably frequent and harassing calls to telephone numbers across California trying to collect consumer debts.

District Attorney Jeff Rosen said handling the case in adult court provides consequences that 'reflect the recklessness and danger of fighting a senseless gang war inside a mall crowded with holiday shoppers.'

The former San Jose City Councilman pleaded no contest in April to three felony charges.

San Jose Police Officer Saul Duran has been charged with five counts of lewd and lascivious acts against a child aged 14 or 15, which allegedly occurred while he was volunteering with a program sponsored by the District Attorney's Office between 2008 and 2012.

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.