San Jose police this week arrested 10 San Jose residents in connection with commercial burglaries in more than a dozen Bay Area cities since January.
Six suspects taken into custody on Thursday in San Jose and Sunnyvale were Joseph Presti, 49, Paul Neale, 33, Rodney Arrieta, 54, Lilia Mendoza, 42, Carlos Lames, 53, and Morgan Stevenson, 39.
The six were the first to be arrested as part of the crew that allegedly carried out burglaries in San Jose, Cupertino, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Cruz, Burlingame, Los Altos, Morgan Hill, Walnut Creek, Fremont,
Pleasanton, Oakland and Dublin, according to police.
The crew focused on bike shops, construction sites and school districts, police said.
The six were booked into Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of multiple felony charges, including commercial burglary.
By Friday, police had arrested another four suspects in the burglaries.
Police served multiple search warrants at a storage locker in Sunnyvale, at three recreational vehicles in San Jose, and another in the 1600 block of Willowgate Drive, where police arrested Ramiro Lozano, 44, Andrea Reyes, 29, John Tamez, 33, and Veronica Lozano, 40.
Police said officers recovered firearms, stolen driver’s licenses, narcotics, ammunition, drug paraphernalia, stolen credit cards and stolen property.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Lt. Greg Lombardo of the San Jose Police Department’s burglary prevention unit at 408-537-1200.
Tips can be provided using the tipline at https://www.sjpd.org/bputipline.
Persons wishing to remain anonymous may either call the Crime Stoppers Tip Line at (408) 947-STOP (7867) or submit a tip online at https://svcrimestoppers.org/.
Persons providing information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect may be eligible for a cash reward from the Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers.
Wait the socialist sanctuary communist voted to legalize theft
These poor souls need to be released or at least awarded for towing the democrat agenda line and doing their part
I mean legalize theft and not expect people to steal really hypocritical maybe
Please allow these fine democrats to pursue their sanctuary dreams
I mean yeah you voted for it
Any time there is a report of arrests on this website, commenters blame Democrats for criminals on the loose. Please turn off FOX and go to a local meeting to educate yourselves on the truth of what we think.
Unfortunately, CA’s soft on crime approach will have them back on the streets in no time…
Crime is Commerce. They’re doing their part to stimulate the economy.
So, you’re saying it is a good thing the state is soft on crime because it helps our economy. We can finally put this debate to rest.
Consumers buy, thieves steal, consumers buy again, thieves steal again, repeat. Yeah, I guess that’s one way to stimulate the economy.
Blah blah blah.. same old news day after day after day. Let’s try something new like build permanent housing in the neighborhoods of lawmakers – for these career criminals – so they can get a fresh start, having all they need within arms reach.
So I take it the perps have been living in RVs parked on the street?
Would not be at all surprised if some liberal politician or activist were to describe ” … firearms, stolen driver’s licenses, narcotics, ammunition, drug paraphernalia, stolen credit cards and stolen property” as an alternative lifestyle.
Prop 47,
“Nonviolent, non serious crimes were reduced to misdemeanors.”
“… required misdemeanor sentencing instead of felony for the following crimes”…
Just one from long list.
“Grand theft, where the value of the stolen property does not exceed $950”
An probably the worst part of Prop 47 was making personal use of drugs only a misdemeanor. That took away from Judges the ability to force a person to hit bottom by imposing a harsh state prison term then immediately staying the implementation of it provided person got clean n sober and stayed that way for between 3 to 5 years while on probation, subject to random drug testing and did not commit any additional crimes.
Since Prop 47 there is no reason for a chemically dependent person,
to not do crime or get clean n sober.
WELL DONE SOCIALIST LIBERAL politicians.
On webpage listing supporters of Prop 47, gavin newsom is top of the list.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47_(2014),_supporters
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)
newsom was San Francisco Board of Supervisor from 1997 to 2004 then mayor from 2004 to 2011 and look how well San Francisco turned out.
Just think, now he’s in charge of an entire state . . . . . . . . . . .
I guess you never read the news at the time about the severe overcrowding in our prions. Will you start a Go-fund-me for new prison? Prop 47 relaxed non-violent crimes o the more dangerous would be the ones locked up. The current estimated cost per prisoner is $200k per year. How many can we put you down for? The DA has latitude with enforcement because they know the crime, the guilt’s history and if this is a repeat offender.The DA is not soft every time someone is charged.
I am tired of the Prop 47 tropes.
@doh
The cost has been shifted to insurance companies and the victims of the crime (auto burgs etc…). The DA is soft on certain charges and does not file on misdemeanors. The reason being, they only have a year to file and since Prop 47 passed they are innandated with thousands of misdemeanors and they could not keep up if they wanted too. Prop 47 HAS legalized certain crimes. I would rather pay more taxes and keep the drug addict criminals locked up. There would be less victims of property crimes.
I don’t care about drug addicts at all. If they truly wanted help they could walk into rehab right now, Salvation Army, Jericho, Delancy Street etc…No excuses.
The only tropes are the people who voted for Prop 47. Thanks for making millions more people victims of property crime 👍
Doh … A little history, Prop 47 was the panicked response to problems AB-109 caused after it was passed in 2011. AB-109 was the fix for overcrowding of state prisons feckless members of state legislature forced state’s overcrowding problem down onto CA’s 58 counties.
Prior to AB-109 any Felony sentence imposed in excess of 366 days was automatically served in state prison. Today there are convicted felons with multi year sentences in county jails. Resulting overcrowding forced convicted misdemeanor criminals to be released after serving tiny fractions of their sentences, in some cases incarceration lasted mere hours.
Bill also encouraged use of electronic monitoring as a substitute for incarceration. Examples of how well that has worked,
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/justice/california-sex-offenders-released/
https://abc7.com/archive/8560757/
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Sex-offender-in-toy-aisle-assault-had-similar-6065758.php
Info
https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Education-and-Events-Section/City-Managers/2018-Session-Materials/Drugs-Assault-Theft-Give-Me-My-Citation,-Please
Bill also forced counties to be responsible to supervise most of released felons on state parole.
Prior to AB-109 if felons out on parolee violated that parole went back to state prison, now in over 90 percent o the time maximum time or a parole violation is 180 days county jail time. Most of the time because of jail overcrowding parole violators are back out on our streets in days or hours.
AB-109 changed sentencing on 500 crimes, any sentence imposed by a Judge for any of those 500 crimes is automatically cut in HALF.
Search for more info on AB-109 on your own.
Liberal politicians realizing the damage and county jail overcrowding AB-109 was causing, came up with Prop 47, They spent $10,306,082.00
to con voters into passing Prop 47.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)
I voted NO on Prop 47, but it was not the “panicked response to AB-109.” Because of prison overcrowding, the Supreme Court gave California a choice. Build more prisons, or find a solution. So they presented it to the voters. And the voters voted the way they did. And here we are. If you have the money to build more prisons that CA desperately needs, maybe we can turn this around.
Our Governor is working on rent control to solve our population crisis, (he calls it a housing crisis). Perhaps building those new prisons is the most practical solution for his housing crisis.
Either that or bring back the death penalty with an express lane. Sirhan Sirhan is in the news; we have been paying his housing and healthcare since 1965.
California is ok with this trash going on.
Another Texas shooting…what?