San Jose: Stockpile of illegal guns located at residence of homicide suspect, police say

SAN JOSE — A gentleman arrested and charged in a fatal taking pictures from very last weekend was hoarding dozens of firearms that involved various illegally modified rifles, home made pistols and stolen weapons, in accordance to San Jose police.

Law enforcement searched the dwelling of 38-calendar year-outdated San Jose resident Vu Thai previously this week, but the warrant at the rear of the weapons seizure did not originate with the June 4 taking pictures for which he was arrested and jailed.

Thai was also suspected in a May well 21 highway-rage confrontation around Blossom Hill Road and Snell Avenue in which he is accused of brandishing a gun “in a threatening manner” at another individual, in accordance to law enforcement.

Thai was not quickly joined to that incident, but he was sooner or later discovered as the suspected aggressor, major to detectives acquiring a lookup warrant for his home. The ensuing search, which happened Wednesday, turned up much more than 60 guns, including two-dozen rifles they explained as unlawful assault weapons, two “privately manufactured firearms,” and two stolen handguns, law enforcement mentioned.

Detectives also recovered “multiple significant-capacity publications and thousands of rounds of ammunition,” according to police.

When the guns were being seized, Thai was previously in custody at the Santa Clara County Key Jail, where he was booked Sunday in connection with a lethal capturing the night of June 4. That attack, at Monterey Street and Rancho Drive, killed 33-yr-old San Jose resident Loi Tang.