Deputies responded at 7:50am Friday and contacted the person who reported the threats, then arrested the employee and booked him into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of making criminal threats.
Ernest Ramirez, 54, of San Jose, was arrested June 9 and charged with raping an elementary school student who had attended an after-school martial arts program between August 2020 and June 2021.
The DEA and U.S. attorney announced the arrests of Victor Nevarez, Juan Rivera Arzate and Pedro Gaona Salse, all of San Jose, and Adhemar Castaneda Becerril, of Gilroy.
In less than a month, the suspects held up at least seven San Jose small businesses – mostly smoke shops – stealing cash, cell phones and cigars, at gunpoint, according to prosecutors.
The first count of unsheltered people in three years showed that the overall number of homeless individuals had increased by 3% in Santa Clara County (to 10,028) and increased by 11% (to 6,739) in the city limits of San José.
Last week, at least 65 students at Los Gatos High School tested positive for Covid. Nationwide, new Covid infections have increased substantially in the past month, with California adding more than 158,000 new cases during that time.
The victim's uncle, Rene Aaron Hernandez-Santos,19, and grandfather Rene Trigueros Hernandez, 59, were arrested Wednesday by the San José Police Department's Special Operations Division, MERGE Unit, and charged with felony child abuse in the 2021 death of Arely Naomi Proctor.
Building B at the Guadalupe Light Rail yard, which began being demolished Wednesday afternoon with the work expected to continue Thursday, May 12, is where six of the 10 VTA employees died in the mass shooting on May 26, 2021.