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Sometime during the night of 12/23 suspects burglarized a business taking thousands of dollars’ worth of metal, electrical cabling and wiring. At 3:35 pm on Christmas afternoon, the officer who conducted the previous day’s investigation checked on the property and located a suspicious vehicle parked in an adjacent parking lot. Responding officers located holes cut in a chain link fence and they heard noises that were consistent with items being cut and torn from inside the structure. After a short time officers arrested two suspects leaving the building, followed by two additional suspects who were located trying to run from the scene.

The following suspects were booked at Santa Rita Jail for a variety of charges including burglary, possession of burglary tools, possession of narcotics, and resisting arrest. The suspects were identified as follows:

Miguel Padilla, 36 years old, from Mountain View
Hipolito Padillo, 34 years old, from San Jose
Jose Morales-Bustos, 34 years old, from San Jose
Evaristo Luna, 25 years old, from San Jose