{"id":403963,"date":"2026-07-19T00:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403963\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:26:07","slug":"san-jose-man-arrested-after-hidden-camera-found-in-starbucks-bathroom-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403963\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man arrested after hidden camera found in Starbucks bathroom \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Jose man was arrested after a hidden camera was found in a Starbucks bathroom at a downtown San Jose coffee shop last month, authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the San Jose Police Department, officers responded to a report of an invasion of privacy incident at a Starbucks located in the 100 block of East Santa Clara Street on June 9 at around 9:30 a.m., after an employee of the business located a hidden camera in the public restroom.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said SJPD Sexual Assaults Investigation Unit detectives discovered the camera had been installed by an adult male suspect that same morning and was operating for about 30 minutes, from 9-9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives used assistance from the SJPD Real Time Intelligence Center and Automated License Plate Reader cameras to identify the suspect vehicle and suspect, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives identified 38-year-old San Jose resident, David Perales, as the primary suspect and obtained an arrest warrant, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Perales was located and arrested on July 2 and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail for invasion of privacy, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this case or similar cases is asked to contact Detective Gregory of the San Jos\u00e9 Police Department Sexual Assaults Investigation Unit via email: 4435@sanjoseca.gov or cell at 408-277-4102.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Jose man was arrested after a hidden camera was found in a Starbucks bathroom at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,861,7,723,138,181,23,100,182,88,90,89,198,200,2442],"class_list":["post-403963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pm-report","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-south-bay-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403963","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=403963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}