{"id":392648,"date":"2026-07-09T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392648\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T23:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:03:24","slug":"alleged-san-jose-gang-members-arrested-in-brutal-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392648\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged San Jose gang members arrested in brutal beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sj-gang-beating.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Several alleged gang members, including four juveniles, were arrested in gang-related assaults in San Jose and Sunnyvale. <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; Several alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Jose<\/a> gang members have been arrested in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">brutal beating outside a convenience store<\/a> and another violent assault, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said the investigation uncovered evidence linking the suspects to multiple gang-related crimes in San Jose and Sunnyvale.<\/p>\n<p> Victim beaten unconscious outside store  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the San Jose Police Department, one of the attacks occurred on April 4 outside a convenience store in the 3800 block of Seven Trees Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said at least five suspects, including three juveniles, assaulted a man in what appears to have been a gang-motivated beat down.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The victim lost consciousness during the beating, but the suspects allegedly continued assaulting him, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital. The suspects fled before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Illescas is photographed. <\/p>\n<p>   Police identify suspects <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Following an investigation, detectives identified the primary suspects as 19-year-old Moses Martinez, William Dehoyos, 50; and three juvenile boys, whose identities are being withheld because of their ages.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said all five are known gang members but did not identify the gang they are allegedly affiliated with.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-09-141755.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">San Jose police provided an image of the assault in San Jose outside a convivence store on April 4, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>  Investigation tied suspects to other crimes <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Detectives said the investigation also linked the suspects to another gang-related assault that occurred in Sunnyvale in March.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators also identified additional suspects in that attack. They were Alexander Illescas, 18, Demetrius Martinez, 21, and a 16-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities also learned that one of the juvenile suspects was responsible for a separate gang-motivated incident in February in which a firearm was brandished at a San Jose apartment complex in the 4300 block of The Woods Drive.<\/p>\n<p> Attempted murder charges filed <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The adult suspects were arrested and booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail. The juveniles were booked into the juvenile hall. The charges include gang-related attempted murder and assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report was written based on information from the San Jose Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Several alleged gang members, including four juveniles, were arrested in gang-related assaults in San Jose and Sunnyvale.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,2042,100,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":["post-392648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392648","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=392648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}