San José police say they have arrested nine suspects, six adults and three juveniles, in connection with a string of vehicle burglaries that detectives believe stretched across the city and totaled roughly 50 incidents. The arrests also followed an investigation into break-ins at three San José businesses earlier this year, according to San José police.
According to San José Police Media Relations
, the case began with commercial burglaries at three businesses in San José on June 3, 2026, in the 1600 block of Capitol Avenue, the 400 block of Blossom Hill Road, and the 1900 block of Camden Avenue. A preliminary investigation found that suspects forced entry by driving a vehicle through the businesses and taking miscellaneous items before fleeing ahead of police arrival, the department said.
Investigators also linked some of the suspects to a broader pattern of vehicle break-ins, with police saying some suspects were responsible for approximately 50 vehicle burglaries across San José. SJPD burglary unit detectives said they used automated license plate reader cameras to identify all nine suspects, then obtained arrest warrants for each of them along with search warrants for associated residences around the city.
A Rolling Series Of Arrests Over Months
The arrests did not happen all at once. Police say 19-year-old San José resident Isaiah Ochoa was arrested on June 17, followed by a 17-year-old juvenile suspect on June 24. Jocelyn Gonzalez-Landeros, 19, Diego Barron-Mora, 21, and Joshuah Villela, 19, all San José residents, were arrested together on June 30.
The case picked back up months later. On October 15, police arrested Diego Frias, 23, Moises Nava, 20, and two more juvenile suspects, while Joshuah Villela was taken into custody a second time, this time specifically for vehicle burglaries, per the same SJPD account. Among the juveniles, police identified a first withheld juvenile as 17, a second as 18, and a third as 15 — and noted that the 18-year-old suspect was 17 at the time of the incident.
The San José Police Department Covert Response Unit assisted with the arrests, according to the SJPD press release.
License Plate Readers Have Cracked Other South Bay Cases
This is not the first time San José police have credited automated license plate reader technology with breaking open a burglary investigation. NBC Bay Area reported that five suspects were arrested on Oct. 31, 2025, after police used the same camera technology to track a vehicle tied to a west San José residential burglary; those arrests came nearly a year before the final arrests in this case, on October 15, 2026.
The city has also dealt with large-scale vehicle burglary sprees before. The San Jose Police Department reported that it received 114 vehicle burglary reports from four multi-family housing complexes over a single weekend in November 2025, a case in which investigators later identified a suspect, Ramses Hernandez Rivera, who was already in custody on an unrelated crime before being arrested on multiple burglary counts, according to the San Jose Police Department. And in September 2023, the department said it received reports of multiple vehicle burglaries involving approximately 50 vehicles in San José's Southern and Western Divisions, nearly matching the scale of this latest case.
Vehicle burglary rings have also crossed city lines in the South Bay. Mountain View police said they arrested a 27-year-old San Jose man believed to be responsible for vehicle break-ins spanning Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose and Milpitas, according to the Mountain View Voice. Separately, three suspects were arrested on January 16, 2025, in connection with alleged burglaries stretching across five South Bay cities, with SJPD officers getting assistance from the Stockton Police SWAT Team, as reported by The Mercury News.
How To Report A Tip
San José police are asking anyone with information about this case or similar ones to contact Detective Corini at [email protected] or 408-277-4401. The department's Burglary Unit also accepts tips directly at [email protected].
Anonymous tips can be submitted through P3 Tips, by calling (408) 947-STOP, or through Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers, and tipsters may be eligible for a cash reward if their information leads to an arrest under the Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers program.
