{"id":285896,"date":"2026-04-25T19:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285896\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:59:25","slug":"no-active-public-threat-after-man-with-machete-spotted-in-san-jose-backyard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285896\/","title":{"rendered":"No active public threat after man with machete spotted in San Jose backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(<a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:KRON;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KRON<\/a>) \u2014 San Jose police are telling residents there is no active public safety threat after a man was seen holding a machete in a residential backyard Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police received a report at 7:20 a.m. of a suspicious person with a weapon in the 1400 block of Herald Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect is described by investigators as a man with a skinny build, in his 30s, with a dark colored backpack and a machete, wearing dark colored clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His whereabouts are not currently known as police continue to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with details on the case or who sees suspicious activity is urged to call San Jose police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KRON) \u2014 San Jose police are telling residents there is no active public safety threat after a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[8806,88,90,89,17060,122282],"class_list":["post-285896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-machete","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police","tag-suspicious-person"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285896","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=285896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}