{"id":426783,"date":"2026-08-07T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426783\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:32:10","slug":"san-jose-police-arrest-man-suspected-in-at-least-6-armed-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426783\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose police arrest man suspected in at least 6 armed robberies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Bay man has been arrested following a string of armed robberies that targeted San Jose businesses over the last several weeks, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to officers, the first robbery took place on June 18 around 1:35 a.m. at a business on the 5800 block of Camden Avenue, near Malpas Drive. An adult male suspect entered the business and brandished a firearm at an employee, before leaving the scene with cash.<\/p>\n<p>As police investigated, detectives said they found evidence linking the suspect to at least five additional armed robberies in San Jose in June and July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The businesses varied from smoke shops, convenience stores, to motels,&#8221; police said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect was connected to a June 30 robbery on the 2400 block of Stevens Creek Boulevard near Interstate 880, a July 15 robbery on the 1300 block of Blossom Hill Road in South San Jose and a July 17 robbery on the 5800 block of Camden Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was also linked two East San Jose robberies in three days, a July 18 robbery on the 2500 block of Fontaine Road and a July 20 robbery on the 2400 block of Alvin Road.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were able to identify a suspect with the help of patrol officers, the department&#8217;s Real Time Intelligence Center and automated license plate readers. Arrest and search warrants were obtained.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/andrew-fiddler-san-jose-robbery-suspect-080726.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"andrew-fiddler-san-jose-robbery-suspect-080726.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Andrew Fiddler, who is suspected in a series of armed robberies in San Jose. Fiddler was arrested on July 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                San Jose Police Department<\/p>\n<p>On July 21, detectives found the suspect, identified as 35-year-old Andrew Fiddler of San Jose. Police said a search warrant for an associated residence in San Jose located evidence of the robberies.<\/p>\n<p>Fiddler was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information about the robberies or similar cases is urged to contact Detective Ledesma of the department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/san-jose-armed-robbery-spree-campbell-man-arrested\/mailto:4842@sanjoseca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">over email<\/a> or by calling 408-277-4166.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Bay man has been arrested following a string of armed robberies that targeted San Jose businesses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2873,185,2480,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-426783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-armed-robbery","tag-campbell","tag-robbery","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\/426783","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=426783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}