{"id":282941,"date":"2026-04-24T00:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282941\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:53:26","slug":"sjpd-arrest-4-after-sledgehammer-smash-and-grab-at-mall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282941\/","title":{"rendered":"SJPD arrest 4 after sledgehammer smash-and-grab at mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">San Jose police on Thursday announced the arrests of four men they say are connected to a smash-and-grab with sledgehammers at a mall several months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police identified the suspects as Devin Hairston, 31, of Oakland; Charlie Jones, 23, of Oakland; Emilio Sanchez, 24, of Hayward; and Roman Camarena, 18, of Stockton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">police said that the arrests stem from Jan. 11 at a business at a mall in the 2800 block of Stevens Creek Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; San Jose police on Thursday announced the arrests of four men they say are connected to a smash-and-grab with sledgehammers at a <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/burglars-use-sledgehammers-crowbars-break-oakland-gas-stations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:mall several months ago.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">mall several months ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suspects identified<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police identified the suspects as Devin Hairston, 31, of Oakland; Charlie Jones, 23, of Oakland; Emilio Sanchez, 24, of Hayward; and Roman Camarena, 18, of Stockton.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;San Jose police identified the suspects as (L-R) Devin Hairston, 31, of Oakland; Charlie Jones, 23, of Oakland; Emilio Sanchez, 24, of Hayward; and Roman Camarena, 18, of Stockton.&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a5500c48a309ed13dc0b1f6e6f86e0a0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Jose police identified the suspects as (L-R) Devin Hairston, 31, of Oakland; Charlie Jones, 23, of Oakland; Emilio Sanchez, 24, of Hayward; and Roman Camarena, 18, of Stockton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a news release, police said that the arrests stem from Jan. 11 at a business at a mall in the 2800 block of Stevens Creek Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Four suspects went into the store with sledgehammers, police said, and broke in, taking thousands of dollars of high-end watches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspects fled before police got there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police figured out two of the getaway cars and used license plate readers to find both vehicles left abandoned in San Jose and Fremont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Robbery unit detectives eventually arrested all four suspects, and they learned that Hairston and Camarena were allegedly involved in a separate armed robbery on Dec. 31, 2025 at a business in the 3000 block of McKee Road, where they also used a sledgehammer to break into a jewelry case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police provided a<a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sjpd.org\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/2769\/262\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:photo of the evidence they collected from the case,;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> photo of the evidence they collected from the case, <\/a>including jewelry, watches and some clothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief San Jose police on Thursday announced the arrests of four men they say are connected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[121472,121473,121471,143,121474,88,90,89,17060,121475,54094],"class_list":{"0":"post-282941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-charlie-jones","9":"tag-devin-hairston","10":"tag-emilio-sanchez","11":"tag-oakland","12":"tag-roman-camarena","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news","16":"tag-san-jose-police","17":"tag-sledgehammers","18":"tag-stevens-creek-boulevard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282941","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=282941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}