SAN JOSE — A person and three boys had been arrested this week in reference to the August armed theft of Peters’ Bakery, and one different man remains to be being sought, in keeping with San Jose police.
The center-of-the-night Aug. 17 holdup attracted regular information consideration due to the store’s standing as considered one of metropolis’s hottest bakeries. It additionally stood out because the enterprise was closed on the time, and was solely occupied by staff who had been within the again, getting ready meals for the morning.
Police stated officers had been referred to as at about 1:20 a.m. that day to the bakery at 3108 Alum Rock Ave. for a theft report. Safety video posted publicly by the bakery exhibits 5 individuals, all male, make their means contained in the enterprise carrying face masks and hooded sweatshirts overlaying their heads.
Nearly instantly, one of many intruders pushes an worker towards a wall and holds a knife to him. Police stated a minimum of one different member of the group additionally held staff at knifepoint whereas the remaining three “rummaged by the enterprise.”
The footage exhibits the group exiting about 90 seconds later, with considered one of them holding a money field that they reportedly demanded from the workers. Nobody was injured, police stated, including that the group fled in a white BMW.
The investigation decided that the identical group, touring in the identical automotive, burglarized an Arteaga’s Meals Heart location on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen about 45 minutes earlier. Police stated they broke a window to get intside then stole a number of objects from a jewellery kiosk earlier than leaving.
Detectives recognized suspects by monitoring the BMW’s actions, with the assistance of automated license-plate reader cameras put in within the metropolis. They're being piloted within the metropolis as a part of a response to a string of deadly pedestrian fatalities on busy metropolis thoroughfares together with the intersection of Monterey Highway and Curtner Avenue.
On Tuesday, detectives and officers arrested three teen boys between the ages of 14 and 17 in San Jose, in addition to a 21-year-old man in Sacramento who police stated is on parole for an unspecified conviction.
Police say they're nonetheless trying to find 19-year-old San Jose resident Brayan Perez Macias on suspicion of taking part within the theft.
Anybody with data is requested to contact SJPD Theft Detective Alan Yee at 4342@sanjoseca.gov or at 408-277-4166. Suggestions may also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at svcrimestoppers.org.