Four people were arrested following a violent carjacking in San Jose last week after investigators used automated license plate readers to find the stolen vehicle and the suspects’ vehicle, police said.
The incident happened on Sept. 18 at about 11:16 a.m. in the area of Las Plumas Avenue and Marburg Way, next to U.S. Highway 101 and west of King Road. The San Jose Police Department said in a press release that four men exited a vehicle, one of them who was armed with a gun, and approached the victim, demanding he hand over his car key.
The four men then assaulted the victim and forcibly took his key, fleeing in his vehicle and in the vehicle they arrived in, police said…