Five people possibly connected to recent smash-and-grab robberies at Sunnyvale jewelry stores were arrested on Wednesday, authorities said.
The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said in a press release that officers were alerted on Wednesday afternoon about two stolen vehicles in the area of Lawrence Expressway and U.S. Highway 101. Recent jewelry store robberies and attempted robberies in Sunnyvale and other Bay Area cities involved stolen vehicles being rammed into the stores to gain entry and as getaway vehicles. In some of the incidents, the robbers were thwarted by armed store employees.
The DPS said officers began looking for the two stolen vehicles because of those incidents and also alerted nearby jewelry store businesses of possible suspicious activity. Several incidents have happened at jewelry stores along a stretch of El Camino Real in Sunnyvale between Wolfe Road and Lawrence Expressway…