Santa Clara County bomb squad gives all-clear after investigation into suspicious device in Mountain View
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - The Santa Clara County Sheriff s Office bomb squad has given the all-clear after they were called to assist an investigation of a suspicious device spotted Saturday morning on the Stevens Creek Trail in Mountain View, police said.
Authorities examined the object with a drone and temporarily closed the trail at East Middlefield Road to cyclists and pedestrians, police said in a social media post about 10:20 a.m.
Traffic in both directions on Middlefield was diverted between Moffett Boulevard and Easy Street for the duration of the investigation, but has since reopened.
A County Sheriffâs deputy from Santa Clara, California was charged with staging an ambush in which he said he was gunned down by someone in a passing car as he stood on a road.
Officers were not able to find any serious injuries on 27-year-old Deputy Sunkhdeep Gill, who has been working for the Sheriffâs office since 2016. It seemed he had been hit with only one bullet, and in a surprising spot â his bodycam, which was broken in the process. The incident triggered a manhunt for the suspect.
But Gillâs story started to crumble apart upon further investigation, and he is now being charged with felony vandalism and falsely reporting a crime, a misdemeanor.
Facing pressure from Hills residents, Sheriff’s Office addresses rising burglary rates
Courtesy of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
A map of some of the 31 residential burglaries committed in Los Altos Hills in 2020.
In 2017, Portland, Ore., television news station KGW8 sent questionnaires to 86 inmates serving time in the Oregon Department of Corrections for burglary-related offenses.
Do you typically knock on the front door before breaking into a home or apartment? the media outlet inquired.
Yes, we do, all respondents replied.
Would hearing a radio or television playing within a home discourage you from breaking in?
Yes, it would, most of the respondents replied.
Santa Clara’s Sheriff Smith Set Tone for Deputy Accused of Filing False Report Ammoland Inc. Posted on
Why wouldn’t we expect Sukhdeep Gill to imprint off of the ethics he sees coming from his leadership? (Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office / Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office)
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “A northern California sheriff’s deputy was ‘lucky’ to survive a gunshot to the chest after his body camera helped to block the bullet an unknown suspect fired during an ‘ambush’ attack near a reservoir,” Fox News and other news outlets reported a year ago.
“Anyone of those rounds could have hit him anywhere,” Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said at the time. “He was very brave under fire.”