{"id":49935,"date":"2025-11-12T18:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/49935\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:53:16","slug":"san-jose-man-arrested-in-30000-copper-theft-at-vta-light-rail-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/49935\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man arrested in $30,000 copper theft at VTA Light Rail station"},"content":{"rendered":"

A San Jose man was arrested after deputies said they thwarted a recent copper theft in progress at a VTA Light Rail station.<\/p>\n

The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Monday<\/a> that they were called to the Ohlone-Chynoweth station in South San Jose. A resident of a nearby apartment complex called 911 to report suspicious activity, according to deputies.<\/p>\n

Three deputies, along with a sergeant with the sheriff’s office responded to the station. When authorities arrived, they said the suspect was stripping sheathing from freshly cut copper wire.<\/p>\n

According to the sheriff’s office, nearly 60 feet of wire was taken. Damage was estimated at $30,000.<\/p>\n

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Scene of a purported copper theft at the Ohlone-Chynoweth VTA Light Rail station in South San Jose.<\/p>\n

Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

The suspect, identified as 38-year-old Gregory Ortega, was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of grand theft, possession of stolen property, vandalism and violating probation. Ortega was on probation for burglary.<\/p>\n

Jail records show Ortega is being held without bail, with his next court appearance scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Jose man was arrested after deputies said they thwarted a recent copper theft in progress at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5031,88,90,89,198],"class_list":{"0":"post-49935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-metal-theft","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news","12":"tag-santa-clara-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49935","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=49935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}