A stolen handgun, a return visit to the same San José home, and a vehicle flagged by automated license-plate readers ended with an arrest last week, according to police.
San José police say burglary-unit detectives tied a car to a residential break-in where a handgun was taken, then linked the same suspect to an attempted entry at the same home days later. In that second incident, the person allegedly fled before officers arrived. Investigators say automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras captured the suspect vehicle and helped them identify the car involved.
According to the San José Police Department, detectives identified the vehicle and associated suspect using ALPR cameras. The department says officers found the car shortly after in the city of Santa Clara, unoccupied, and chose not to initiate a pursuit at that time for safety reasons. When officers later tried to pull the vehicle over, police say the driver took off at a high rate of speed, hit a bystander’s car, and was ultimately taken into custody…