The search is on for a man suspected of robbing several banks this summer including one in San Jose.
Police believe one man is responsible for ten heists in Northern California since June.
Officer Jose Garcia says the San Jose incident occurred back on
July 28th at a Bank of the West branch on South DeAnza Boulevard.
The trial is scheduled to begin today for three men accused of murdering a Los Gatos businessman in 2008.
In opening statements today, Deputy District Attorney Jeff Rosen says
he plans to connect Paul Garcia with Miguel Chaidez and Lucio Estrada,
the two men he allegedly hired to murder Mark Achilli.
Garcia was reportedly jealous of Achilli for dating his girlfriend Tessa Donnelly.
Garcia's attorney says his client is innocent and that Achilli's death was the result of a drug deal gone bad.
A fourth suspect, Daniel Chaidez, the cousin of Miguel Chaidez, has
reached a plea deal and will testify for the prosecution.
The trial is expected to last two months.
A portion of the former Town and County shopping center in downtown Sunnyvale has been bought.
With plans to put in nearly 300 housing units and retail shops, B-R-E
Properties has purchased half of the site on Town and Country Village
Way for 19-million-dollars.
A spokesperson for the developer says no timetable has been scheduled to begin construction.
Buildings of the former shopping center were demolished in April after being empty for over a year.
This is the third time this year the property has changed hands.
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Alto-based Tesla Motors is in rare company in Japan after being
approved for the Japanese government's clean energy cash rebate
Program. Tesla's Roadster becomes only the second standard
sized vehicle to qualify for the rebate which could reduce its cost by
about 38-thousand dollars in Japan. The Roadster currently sells for over 152 thousand dollars there and has been available by online orders since May. Tesla has sold over 12-hundred Roadsters in the country so far and plans to open its first showroom there later this year.
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