{"id":390910,"date":"2026-07-08T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390910\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:23:23","slug":"sjpd-seeks-suspects-who-stole-statue-from-vietnamese-heritage-garden-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390910\/","title":{"rendered":"SJPD seeks suspects who stole statue from Vietnamese Heritage Garden \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying two people who stole a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/stolen-memorial-monument-vietnamese-heritage-garden-san-jose-recovered\/4102521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">large statue from the Vietnamese Heritage Garden<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>The roughly 9-foot statue of a South Vietnamese soldier was stolen from the garden, located in Kelley Park, on June 21 and later recovered along a creek bed.<\/p>\n<p>The South Vietnamese soldier statue stands next to an American soldier statue as part of a monument called &#8220;Thank You America,&#8221; a gesture to the American soldiers who fought with the South Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a preliminary investigation, police said the statue was stolen sometime between 4 and 4:30 a.m. on June 21. At about 3:30 p.m. the same day, officers found the statue near the Coyote Creek Trail and Interstate 280.<\/p>\n<p>During the course of the investigation, officers also found a stolen commercial truck they believe was used during the theft. The truck was reported stolen on June 18 from a business along the 1900 block of Monterey Road, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects have not been identified and remain outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who recognizes the suspects, witnessed the theft or has information about it is encouraged to contact San Jose police Detective Cobb by email at 4812@sanjoseca.gov or by phone at 408-277-4521.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying two people who stole a large statue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-390910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390910","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=390910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}