Thieves broke into Tofu’s Trading card store in San Jose, but missed the special collection of cards to be released days later
The thieves entered a San Jose business under cover of the night to execute their heist. They broke in, with one crawling along the floor to avoid detection, and began searching in the dark.
Within minutes, they made off with the goods – more than 35,000 Pokémon cards.
Continue reading...Joanne Segovia, 64, dismissed following internal investigation into charges filed against her
The director of the San Jose police union who was charged with attempting to import synthetic opioids has been fired from the organization.
On Friday, the San Jose Police Officers’ Association fired Joanne Segovia after it completed the first phase of the internal investigation that it launched into the charges filed against her.
Continue reading...Police say baby Brandon Cuellar, who has since been found, was taken from home at about 1pm on Monday
A 3-month-old baby who was kidnapped from his San Francisco Bay Area home was found Tuesday and three suspects were detained, police said.
The baby, Brandon Cuellar, was taken to a hospital as a precaution, the San Jose police department announced on Twitter, without saying where the boy was located.
Continue reading...Drivers already hit by low wages and poor working conditions are spending more time driving to keep their wages the same
By Tuesday afternoon, Lyft driver Elida Zabaleta had earned $100 in the five hours she spent ferrying passengers across the city of San Jose. With gas prices in California surging, she’d have to use more than half of that to cover fuel for the day, leaving her with just $45.
The rising cost of gas has made a difficult job all the more difficult, Zabaleta said, forcing her to spend more time behind the wheel to earn enough to afford living in one of the country’s most expensive cities.
Continue reading...Officials say the guns Samuel James Cassidy used to kill nine of his coworkers at a California rail yard appear to be legal
A gunman who killed nine of his co-workers at a rail yard in San Jose, California, had stockpiled weapons and ammunition at his home, including 12 guns and 22,000 rounds of ammunition, authorities said on Friday.
Investigators found the cache of weapons at the home of Samuel James Cassidy, the Santa Clara county sheriff’s office said in a news release. They also turned up multiple cans of gasoline and suspected molotov cocktails. Authorities have said that Cassidy set his house on fire using a timer or slow-burn device to coincide with his attack.
The guns he used to open fire on his co-workers appear to be legal, officials said. They have not said how he obtained them.
Continue reading...Police say ‘multiple injuries and multiple fatalities’ and say suspect among dead after shooting at railyard in California city
Police reported multiple fatalities and injuries after gunfire erupted early on Wednesday morning at a light rail maintenance yard in San Jose, California.
A Santa Clara county sheriff’s spokesman, Deputy Russell Davis, said he could not specify the number of fatalities and injuries, but said that the suspect was confirmed to be among the dead.
Continue reading...Animals storm residential area of San Jose after breaking through a fence in incident caught on video
Nature is healing, and in some parts of northern California, nature is revolting.
About 200 goats broke through a fence in San Jose and briefly stormed the streets of a residential neighborhood on Tuesday evening, in clear violation of social distancing guidelines as well as the state shelter-in-place order.
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