A professional athlete, leaping over fences and ground obstacles and giving police a good run. Officers were using a loud speaker to tell him to surrender, but he kept going, thinking that the construction site ahead of him might give him cover to elude officers. A construction foreman says his team of 70 workers were ordered to scramble as the suspect was believed to be armed and dangerous. We heard the helicopter over there. We didnt think we were in trouble or anything, and they came over here like 20 minutes ago. So they told us to evacuate everybody on site, police are on site with guns, ready to shoot. Get everybody out. This is a Perfect Place to hide. You can go under a sheet of plywood and they could have never caught him. Reporter but Police Officers nabbed him. Its not clear if he sustained injuries during the foot chase, but we did see him on the ground with the First Responders checking him out. What an end to the day after police spent two days looking for a man who robbe
The only one. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Abc7 News Reporter david lewis has been following this after it began yesterday following a bank robbery. He joins was the latest about the arrest that happened just an hour ago. David . Reporter larry and ama, this is the scene here at 7th and 10th street. An active police scene where theres been a foot chase going on. As weve been reporting here on abc 7, the sheriffs off lookin Unmarked Police vehicle that was stolen early this morning and is somehow connected to a bank robbery in Scotts Valley yesterday. It turns out that a San Jose Police officer a short time ago saw that vehicle here in downtown san jose on santa clara street, they followed it and made a stop here on Taylor Street just north of san jose in japan town. Sky 7 was overhead as one of the suspects broke loose and started running away from police, going from an apartment complex into a new construction site. Witnesses said he sprinted like a professional athlete,