Six men have been arrested after a yearlong investigation into 70 robberies, thefts and burglaries targeting victims of Asian descent in San Jose, authorities said this week. Investigators recovered multiple firearms during the arrests, including one unserialized “ghost gun,” the San Jose Police Department said in a news release Wednesday. The incidents, many of which targeted Asian American women in the Little Saigon neighborhood of San Jose, occurred between October 2020 and September 2021. Advertisement“When it’s clear that Asian American women are being targeted, that creates fear in many, many Asian American women in a community,” said Santa Clara County Dist. Nearly 36% of San Jose is of Asian descent, while Santa Clara County is nearly 40%, according to U.S. census numbers.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 18, 2021 09:33 UTC