Press Release: Vehicle Theft Suspect Arrested After Brief Foot Pursuit
DATE:
September 2, 2019
LOCATION:
Great Mall of Bay Area, 1100 Great Mall Drive, Milpitas
CASE #:
19-245-143
SUSPECT #1:
Javon Deshawn Williams, 20-year old Richmond resident
STOLEN VEHICLE:
2015 Black Mercedes C25
On September 2, 2019, at approximately 06:26 P.M., a Milpitas Police Officer located an unoccupied stolen vehicle at the Great Mall of the Bay Area. The vehicle, a 2015 Mercedes C25, was reported stolen to the California Highway Patrol – Contra Costa Division earlier in the morning. Officers saw Javon Deshawn Williams, a 20 year-old Richmond resident, enter the vehicle and drive away.
Officers attempted to stop Williams and he fled the scene at a high rate of speed. Officers used Stop Sticks, a pursuit prevention device, to deflate the vehicle tires. Williams stopped the Mercedes on Interstate 880 near Brokaw Road in San Jose.
Williams ran from officers and was taken into custody after a brief foot pursuit. Williams had a felony warrant for his arrest from the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation for a parole violation associated with a prior robbery. Williams was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail for possession of a stolen vehicle, resisting and evading arrest, and his outstanding warrant.
If you have any information regarding this investigation, you are encouraged to call the Milpitas Police Department at (408) 586-2400. Additionally, the information can be given anonymously by calling the Crime Tip Hotline at (408) 586-2500 or via the Milpitas Police Department Website at: http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/crimetip
Press Release By: Sergeant Tyler Jamison #286
Date/Time: September 2, 2019; 11:15 P.M.
Address/Location
Milpitas Police Department
1275 N Milpitas Blvd
Milpitas, CA 95035
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 408-586-2400