DATE: December 27, 2017
LOCATION: Walmart, 301 Ranch Drive
CASE #: 17-361-056 & 17-360-075
SUSPECT #1: Juan Sanchez-Navarro, 33-year-old San Jose resident
STOLEN VEHICLE: Black 2013 Hyundai Elantra sedan
On December 27, 2017, at about 9:51 A.M., a Milpitas Police officer located an unoccupied Hyundai Elantra, which had been reported stolen from the City of Santa Clara, parked in the Walmart parking lot located at 301 Ranch Drive. Officers observed a man, later identified as Juan Sanchez-Navarro, a 33-year-old San Jose resident, attempting to leave in the stolen car and stopped him in the parking lot. As the officers were giving Sanchez-Navarro verbal orders, he attempted to flee on foot through the parking lot but was captured shortly thereafter by pursuing officers. Sanchez-Navarro was taken into custody without further incident.
Officers searched the stolen car and recovered a monetary donation box which had been stolen on December 25, 2017, from the St. John’s Church in Milpitas. Juan Sanchez-Navarro was also in possession of burglary tools and a glass pipe that is commonly used to smoke controlled substances. A Milpitas detective was able to link Sanchez-Navarro to the burglary of the church.
Juan Sanchez Navarro was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail for automobile theft, burglary, possession of stolen property, burglary tools, drug paraphernalia, and resisting arrest. If you have any information regarding this investigation, you are encouraged to call the Milpitas Police Department at (408) 586-2400. Additionally, the information can be given anonymously by calling the Crime Tip Hotline at (408) 586-2500 or via the Milpitas Police Department website at: http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/crimetip
Press Release By: Lieutenant Kevin Moscuzza #211
Date/Time: December 28, 2017 10:40 A.M.
