FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Suspect Bryan Velasquez
ARRESTED

In April of 2022, the San José Police Department received a report from a local construction company regarding a former employee that had been engaging in stalking behavior towards multiple co-workers. The suspect, identified as Bryan Velasquez, had been terminated from the company in January 2022.

Suspect Velasquez engaged in escalating behavior of cyber stalking, including posting pictures of himself pointing firearms on social media, sending e-mails to employees with threats littered with profanity, while intermixing intimate knowledge of his former co-workers residences' and their daily patterns of behavior. A records check also revealed that suspect Velasquez had several firearms registered to him. Based on the preliminary investigation, Detectives worked closely with the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office to walk through an arrest warrant for Velasquez, charging him with felony stalking, and obtained a gun violence restraining order (GVRO) to seize all his firearms. 

 On May 19, 2022 the San José Police Department's Covert Response Unit (CRU) and MERGE Unit took the suspect into custody without incident. Several firearms, including two AR pattern assault rifles, high capacity magazines, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, tactical body armor, and materials to manufacture and assemble privately made firearms or ghost guns were seized. 

Any persons with information about this case or similar incidents involving this suspect are urged to contact Detective Sergeant Byers #4152 of the SJPD Crime Strategies Unit with any information about this incident at (408) 277-3835 or e-mail 4152@sanjoseca.gov.

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