{"id":278987,"date":"2026-04-21T19:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:39:12","slug":"sjpd-arrest-suspect-in-peters-bakery-rage-fueled-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278987\/","title":{"rendered":"SJPD arrest suspect in Peter&#8217;s Bakery rage-fueled encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/639033902158930000.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">San Jose police shared a photo of a suspect sought in connection with an assault at Peter&#8217;s Bakery on December 17, 2025. <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; San Jose police on Tuesday announced the arrest and charges filed against a 44-year-old Arkansas man, who was captured on video, damaging equipment inside Peter&#8217;s Bakery just before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>   Bakery suspect \u2018enraged\u2019 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police identified Eugene Morgan as the suspect who entered the bakery on Dec. 17, 2025, at about 2:30 p.m. in the 3100 block of Alum Rock Avenue, and became &#8220;enraged&#8221; when an employee declined to buy some unnamed products from him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police also said Morgan assaulted a female customer who tried to record what was going on. She suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Morgan fled the scene,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DStYnmKksf3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> which was posted on Instagram by Peter&#8217;s Bakery, <\/a>and currently has nearly 15,000 likes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Detectives began to work on the case, which they said led him to Morgan, who was in Arkansas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">On March 3, the Fort Smith Arkansas Sheriff&#8217;s Department responded to a trespassing call, which turned out to be Morgan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It was then that Morgan was arrested in connection with the trespassing and also for the San Jose assault, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Morgan was extradited back to Santa Clara County on April 9, and booked into jail in connection with felony vandalism and felony intimidation of a witness with violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">San Jose police said the Santa Clara County District Attorney&#8217;s Office later filed charges for the same crimes.<\/p>\n<p> Public defender <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The other side:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Morgan was being represented by the Santa Clara County Public Defender&#8217;s Office and was scheduled to return to court on May 22 to enter a plea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">KTVU reached out to the public defender&#8217;s office on Tuesday but did not immediately hear back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article San Jose police shared a photo of a suspect sought in connection with an assault at Peter&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,100,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-278987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-santa-clara-county","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278987","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=278987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}