{"id":127158,"date":"2026-01-09T22:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:05:27","slug":"police-ask-for-tips-in-peters-bakery-customer-assault-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127158\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ask for tips in Peters’ Bakery customer assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2014 Police are formally asking the public for tips to help them find a man who last month vandalized the inside of Peters\u2019 Bakery in broad daylight then attacked a patron<\/a> who followed him outside to record him.<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Jose police are seeking this man in connection with a Dec. 17, 2025 assault and vandalism at Peters Bakery on Alum Rock Avenue. According to police and bakery staff, the man initially tried to sell cleaning wipes at the shop then started damaging items inside before attacking a woman following him out. (San Jose Police Dept.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The request follows bakery staff posting security footage of the Dec. 17 confrontation and assault and encouraging tipsters to contact the San Jose Police Department with information that could lead to the man, pleading with viewers to \u201chelp us find him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around 2:20 p.m. on the day of the crime, the man entered the Alum Rock Avenue shop \u2014 a San Jose institution for nearly a century \u2014 and solicited staff to buy cleaning wipes he was carrying with him. After an employee declined, he is shown on video violently pushing a cash register onto the floor and knocking other items off a counter.<\/p>\n

The excerpted video from the bakery later shows the man walking outside with a woman trailing and recording him. He then turns toward the woman and took her to the ground before fleeing. The woman was treated for injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n

In a news release Friday, police released a still image from the video and described him as a man in his 50s, between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10, with medium athletic build. He was seen on the day of the assault wearing a black-and-orange baseball cap emblazoned with a \u201cG\u201d and featuring a white patch on the bill, and a navy-blue puffer vest with his arms exposed. Police added that the man \u201cis believed to frequent establishments\u201d in East San Jose.<\/p>\n

The SJPD assaults unit is investigating the case, and anyone with information about the attack can call 408-277-4161 or email Detective Matthew Lopes at 4870@sanjoseca.gov<\/a>. Tips can also be submitted with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 Police are formally asking the public for tips to help them find a man who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2598,9182,65760,236,88,90,89,5569,3161,22919],"class_list":["post-127158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-assault","tag-customer","tag-peters-bakery","tag-police","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sjpd","tag-tips","tag-vandalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}